asiby wrote:
Gineta wrote:
In africa is normal one week or more no electricity and computer router switch etc all OFF.
Please Gineta, this is not true at all.
Look the problem with the carrier is long and difficult.
Is true carriexchange have 4 telephone number and always there the voicemail.
AHHH
Try to call to the mobile number at 11 in the morning UK Time
There answers any time but never can back the contract I send days before.
The problem with electricity is long . Look I have other software no a2billing but also asterisk and in this we have many call shop.
Many time's I have resquest the call no drop and I call to the country in to the telephone company in question and I get this "sorry for my english"
Operator: Very sorry but were you are calling the the electricity line is down more of 24 hours and we no have UPS WORKING.
UPS uhm I think in petrol generator and other system of power supply.
UPS is for my house for my personal computer . What happened the carrier drop your call to this country the telephone company of this country make the call or busy or always ring to no any costumer.
This Test I make many time because many of the call shop is people from senegal, gana etiopia, zambia etc
Other question is the network problem by internet but you think is many nodo is OFF the lag is very big.
I think the only solution about all this is what we are making now contact with every telephone company and try to contract DIRECT ROUTES and switch for us and other is interest in the project .
No for really make big business Only for win quality in the calls.
Added after 8 minutes: For all the people Only we go to have quality call with africa when is finish the project CABLE AFRICA - EUROPE
INFORMATION ABOUT THIS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2840637.stm
East Africa plans cable link
Fishing boat off Mombasa, Kenya
East Africa's seas could soon be hi-tech below the surface
Telecom executives from East Africa have been meeting to discuss the possibility of connecting countries in the region by an undersea fibre optic cable.
At present African states pay about $400m (£250m) a year to have international calls to other African countries routed via Europe.
"Africa has better connection to Europe and America than within the continent," Telkom Kenya managing director Augustine Cheserem told the meeting in Nairobi.
The meeting decided to draw up a feasibility study for the cable which is not yet fully costed. A report in Kenya's Nation newspaper cited an estimate of 300m Kenyan shillings ($4m).
Growing demand
"We are anticipating substantial growth in (international data) traffic over the next five to 10 years," said Telkom Kenya strategic planning manager Joseph Ogutu.
Deregulation of the region's fixed line telecoms sector coupled with expansion in mobile phone providers means East Africa has more telecoms firms than before.
The cable would create a cheaper alternative to existing satellite-based transmission systems whilst adding extra capacity, Mr Ogutu told BBC World Service Radio.
The cable would probably run from Durban, in South Africa, as far north as Dijbouti in the Horn of Africa via Madagascar, Tanzania and Kenya.
Mr Ogutu dismissed suggestions the consortium might face similar problems to Global Crossing, the international fibre optic network giant which filed for bankruptcy in January 2002 with liabilities of $12bn.
Global Crossing's collapse revealed the rush to build networks in the late 1990s had resulted in overcapacity. The firm's networks linked 200 cities in 27 countries.
Going it alone?
"Most of the investment of Global Crossing was across the Atlantic and parts of the Pacific where already there's quite of lot of submarine cable," said Mr Ogutu.
He said it was too soon to decide whether the consortium would seek a strategic partner from outside Africa.
However, South African and West African firms had already co-opted to lay an undersea link for the west coast of the continent without outside investment, he said.
The consortium includes Telkom Kenya, Tanzania Telecommunications, Uganda Telecommunications, MTN and Zantel.
Encuentran financiación para el cable que unirá el este de África con Europa
SPANISH
por : Diana Delgado: martes 27 noviembre 2007, 01:03
El proyecto de cable submarino que unirá esta parte de África con Europa costará 70,7 millones de dólares y se espera que con él el precio de Internet se reduzca para los africanos al menos dos tercios del precio actual, que es de 300 dólares al mes.
Cinco instituciones financieras han accedido a financiar este proyecto que podrá empezar a construirse en breve y que significará una mejora considerable de las comunicaciones en esta parte de África.
En la construcción participa un consorcio de 29 empresas y se espera podrá estar terminado en marzo de 2009.
Hace dos semanas comenzó un proyecto de cable de fibra óptica submarino aún más grande, el SEACOM, que unirá Kenia, Madagascar, Mozambique y Tanzania con el cable de banda ancha internacional de Sudáfrica, India y Europa y que se estima tendrá un coste de 650 millones de dólares.