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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (33346)	5/1/2010 10:42:53 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Further to the story "Uganda: Huawei Now Ordered to Fix Fibre-Optic Errors" at #msg-26481650, the article below goes deeper into the nature of the alleged 'wrong' cable specification being used: -- Uganda: Nation Lays Wrong ICT Cable - Experts AllAfrica \| 4 April 2010 Kampala — UGANDA is laying the wrong fibre optic cable for the national backbone infrastructure, local and international experts have said. Uganda is using the G652 type whereas it should be using G655 for the kind of data Uganda will need to transmit. But despite instructions from the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Parliament to halt the second phase until the technical issues have been resolved, the Chinese company, Huawei Technologies, has refused to stop. Cont.: allafrica.com ------

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (33346)	5/1/2010 12:18:15 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Mozambique: Serious Breakdown in Fibre-Optic Cable AllAfrica \| 28 April 2010 Snippet: The (underwater) breakdown caused severe problems in the city of Beira, which suddenly experienced the unpleasant consequences of being utterly dependent on one channel of communications. According to a report in the Beira daily paper "Diario de Mocambique", banks in the city suddenly found on Monday that they were unable to do any business. They were all off-line, and out of communication with their Maputo head offices. In the Beira branches of six commercial banks, reporters found that not a single Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) was working. Nobody could use debit cards to withdraw money from their accounts, to transfer money, or to pay for purchases. /snip allafrica.com ------