[governance] FYI - ITU

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

I have not followed it closely enough in the last year or so, but is there still a problem of national right of way being declared by coastal nations, where the coastal nations may get the advantages of the submarine cable, but inland nations are still pretty much blocked from the access?

Or has this been resolved on a regional basis?

a.


On 20 Sep 2010, at 10:13, McTim wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Jean-Louis FULLSACK
> <jlfullsack at orange.fr> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> That's why I find this ITU_SG statement rather out of place. Pushing always
>> more towards new investments is to be stopped (just to give you an example :
>> there are a dozen submarine cables in place or ready for that along the
>> African West coast, each one costing some hundreds millions dollars).
> 
> A dozen?  Methinks that is an exaggeration:
> 
> http://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/
> 
> 
>> Instead, the ITU would be better advised in limiting such over-redundant
>> investments, and to coordinate the very necessary telecom infrastructure
>> such as the national and subbregional bacbbones with, and integrate them in,
>> the other infrastructure and netwok projects to be implemented in the same
>> areas.
> 
> the ITU would be well advised to work with African governments to get
> out of the way of the PS on this.  National backbones in EA are a
> fiasco. TZ is (allegedly operational, but fantastically expensive),
> UGPhase 1 completed 2 years ago, but no entity to run it, so it is
> just rotting in the ground, KE recently gave (yes GAVE) their new
> backbone to France Telecom/Orange/Telkom Kenya to run, as FT was
> screaming that they wanted 385 M USD (out of 390 million they spent on
> Telkon a few years ago).  I think you get the picture.
> 
> The PS meanwhile, is building (has built) regional carriers in EA to
> take advantage of the 3 new submarine cables in the region.
> 
> 
>> ITU has a great responsibility in the fact that more than 30 years after
>> "The Missing Link" (a fore-runner of the WSIS' "digital divide" !) there
>> isn't any valuable subregional telecoms network in Africa,
> 
> There are now.
> 
> not to speak
>> about a continental network !
> 
> Plans afoot by the PS if I read the tea leaves correctly.
> 
> Here are the priorities for the ITU, and only
>> once these networks are in place, there will be the time for building
>> African BB networks, exchanging African content :
> 
> 
> We have been doing that with IXPs for a decade.
> 
> 
> cultural, economical,
>> educational, gouvernemental, and people to people ! Acting in that way, i.e.
>> applying cross-network synergy rules and methodology to infrastructure and
>> network coordination and implementation, will not only save millions of
>> dollars, but will also contribute effectively to the regional integration
>> which in turn will drive the economies in these countries and subregions, as
>> ascertained by multiple research reports and studies. Regional integration
>> is also priority in pan African policy, as the recent AU Summit has well
>> documented and demonstrated.
> 
> That is true!  Governments must create level playing fields across the
> regions and let the packets flow freely!
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> 
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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