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Go-Slow For Internet In Zimbabwe Over Unpaid Bill
Harare (AFP) Sep 21, 2006 Internet services in Zimbabwe almost ground to a halt Thursday after fixed telephone provider TelOne said it had been disconnected from a satellite link for racking up arrears of 710,000 dollars. "We have been disconnected but we have since written a letter to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) explaining our situation that we need 710,000 US dollars to offset our dues," Wellington Makamure, the state-owned TelOne's managing director told AFP. "They (RBZ) have helped us before and we are hopeful that the funds will be made available," to bail the firm out, he said. The move has resulted in slower browsing speeds for internet users. "This is catastrophic as all legal Internet Service Providers (ISPs) utilise TelOne for their outgoing bandwidth to the World Wide Web as well as for e-mail traffic," MWeb, the country's largest ISP, said in a statement. "Thus all such ISPs have and are being affected by this down time. In short, this is causing an almost collapse of the Internet in Zimbabwe." Makamure said the country is currently "re-routing every internet communication using other various options", but did not explain further. The southern African country is in the midst of an economic crisis characterised by four-digit inflation, soaring poverty levels, an unemployment rate hovering at over 70 percent and chronic shortages of fuel and basic goods such as cornmeal.
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SES ASTRA Dubs New Digital Satellite Infrastructure Entavio
Betzdorf, Luxembourg (SPX) Sep 11, 2006The name of the new digital satellite infrastructure of SES ASTRA is entavio. "With the brand entavio, we will offer an infrastructure providing high-performance TV for everyone", said CEO Wolfgang Keuntje at the start of the international Consumer Electronics trade fair IFA in Berlin. |
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