On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:02 PM, James Byaruhanga <[email protected]> wrote: > > UTL probably buys Seacom capacity at $300 per Mbps as opposed to satellite > which they were buying over $2000.
really? Would think their bulk buying power would have given them sub that! However these prices are very good if > they are offering satellite back up. (This is an after thought :-)) > Well those contracts are long term and hard to break, as you know, so they'd be paying for it anyway. > When Teams lands hopefully on a diverse route, we will get good pricing TEAMS has landed, it's EASSy that's promising drastic price cuts (yes they are still around, and was fiber is in Maputo last month (I saw the pix). In NBO I'm buying 128kbps (daytime) for ~80 USD, (at nite I get 1MB plus.) Kenyans still not happy the ICT Ministry is making noises about regulating prices, tho I am not sure that will actually happen. -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
