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Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by Seun(m): 8:59am On Nov 20, 2007 |
A Nigerian company known as " Umuahia. October 21, 2007. The Office of the National Security Adviser has intervened to broker peace in another landmark row over control of Nigeria 's Internet space that has pitted Interstella Communications Limited, a licensee for Internet Exchange Point (IXP) against the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the telecoms regulator, over the former's bid to be the exclusive carrier of Internet traffic in the country.Source: http://www.technologytimesng.com/post/nsa-intervenes-in-row-over-nigeria-s-internet-exchange-point This is unbelievable stupid, but if the government is stupid enough to bow to their demand: - Any time their network is down, the Internet will be unavailable throughout Nigeria. - Nigeria will be like China with no more free access to information. A big brother nation: - Any website they block will be blocked throughout the country. E.g. political opponents, competitors, etc. - The total bandwidth available throughout the country will be the bandwidth available at the exchange. - In a short time, they can begin to block popular websites unless the owners pay them some money. It's unbelievably stupid because the whole idea of the Internet is that there is no "exclusive carrier of Internet traffic" except in brutal police states like China and sharia countries. The Internet is designed to be reliable through redundancy. If a router goes down, you can route around it. If your ISP is down, you can go to a cyber-cafe and access the net through a VSAT. Or you can go through a different ISP. If MTN GPRS has problems, you can try Glo. Now imagine all ISPs having to route their US or UK-bound traffic through one Nigerian network. Horrible idea! As a webmaster whose daily bread depends on the vibrancy of the Nigerian Internet Service Industry, this idea is a really bad nightmare. It means that as a webmaster you can lose all your traffic forever if you have a quarrel with an employee of the Internet Exchange Point. Or if you speak against them in any way. Absolute power corrupts. One of the beautiful things about the Internet is that nobody is absolutely in control. Because of this, competition is fierce and there is rapid progress. These people are enemies of progress, and they must be stopped. If they want us to use their Internet Exchance Point, let them provide us with a compelling reason to do so. I have been a subscriber of an ISP for several years, and it was not by force. It was because I saw value in them. Thanks a million. |
Re: Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by ndubest(m): 9:32am On Nov 20, 2007 |
, what is this interstella company upto? do they think this is communist china or what havent they heard about capitalism and the gains of competition? may be NCC needS to educate them on what competition have done to the GSM industry in terms of competition and improvement if NCC collected any money from them WITH PROMISE OF GIVINIG THEM MONOPOLY OF THE NIGERIAN CYBER SPACE, they should better refund them because our freedom is not for sale i cant imagine our think of becoming the 20th largest economy by 2020 and someone is thinking of putting the whole nation OF ABOUT 140MILLIION in his pocket or deciding what we should or should not do IN SHORT I WANT TO BELIEVE THEY ARE JOKING OR SOMEONE IS NOT EXPLAINING THEIR SIDE OF THE STORY VERY but if their aim is to monopolize the nigerian gateway, THEY SHOULD BETTER THINK AGAIN we want rural internet access in the villages for sure but not at the expense of our freedom to have unlimited access to the internet anytime any day MAY GOD HELP US IN THIS COUNTRY |
Re: Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by ehie007(m): 9:33am On Nov 20, 2007 |
If Obasanjo was still in power i believe he would av succomed to the monopoly. Thank God for Yaradua. Seun can i get materials on PHP programming. Thanks. |
Re: Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by mekoyo(m): 10:16am On Nov 20, 2007 |
MAY GOD HELP US IN THIS COUNTRY AMEN |
Re: Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by BekinableG(m): 11:18am On Nov 20, 2007 |
May God punish those that want to take the whole country astray and of course block their chances s of even getting their daily bread. AMEN imaging!!!!!!!!!! it will simply not work for them in God's name all this access that even we student and average or poor people have they want to deprive us of them. tofiakwa! they should not forget we are practicing mixes economic socialism & capitalism we have all the right to compete and the right of ownership. they should monopolize them selves no our gateway. |
Re: Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by walcolm(m): 11:21am On Nov 20, 2007 |
ehie007: you are free to hold any belief you like but be careful what you say about other people. ![]() it was obasanjo who gave the directive, after his trip from tunisia, for the government company (galaxy) that will remove the monopoly this guys are trying to force to be created. so why you are giving somebody else credit for another man's initiative is what i dont understand |
Re: Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by alexis(m): 12:00pm On Nov 20, 2007 |
Guys, Easy. First of all. I think what this company wanted to monopolize is the access to the SAT3 fibre-optic access that NITEL currently enjoys. Read the articles below for more insight. http://www.cipaco.org/spip.php?article361 http://www.safe-sat3.co.za/HomePage/SAT3_WASC_SAFE_Home.asp Secondly - most Internet connection in Nigeria is via Satellite with most of the providers based outside Nigeria. Now, there is no way you transmit all these traffic to a single hub site to either monitor or limit access - it's nearly impossible. The Nigerian Internet Exchange is a program that wants to keep traffic originating in Nigeria local to Nigeria. Take for instance. If you are using ISP A in abuja and I am using ISP B in abuja and you try to access a server on ISP B network, without the Internet Exchange, your internet traffic will travel via the Internet to your provider and back to Nigeria to my provider. This process will waste alot of bandwidth, time and resources. There will be high latency and other bandwidth limitations and you will transverse alot of hops just to access a server that is in the same geographical location as you. If ISP A and ISP B were connected to the "supposed" Internet exchange - all traffic to each other will be kept local. So it will only take a few hops to access the server on ISP network. The advantages of an Internet exchange far outways it's disadvantages if there are any. Back to this company that wants to control "all Internet traffic" in Nigeria. First of all - it is not possible. I think they want sole access to the SAT 3 fibre submarine. You see, SAT3 access is cheaper than VSAT so most ISPs want to get on the SAT3 access. |
Re: Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by dekin(m): 12:30pm On Nov 20, 2007 |
well said alexis. u must know ur onoin from ur tomato very well ![]() |
Re: Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by alexis(m): 12:36pm On Nov 20, 2007 |
;d |
Re: Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by cybersleek(m): 4:00pm On Nov 20, 2007 |
Just so that you may know. Galaxy Back Bone Plc is one of the registered proxy company of Nigeria's former potentate, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, i hope you are aware that this same company was registered with tax payers' money and was meant to make internet penetration available everywhere in Nigeria. But im sure Obasanjo and his cronies are trying to hoodwink Nigerians by turning it into another private investment. Does OFN ring any bells? |
Re: Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by Emmay(m): 4:24pm On Nov 20, 2007 |
Na wa O!!!! If men were GOD!, |
Re: Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by 9ja4eva: 5:50pm On Nov 20, 2007 |
Dem no serious, I trust Yar Adua wont bow to their demand. |
Re: Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by Nobody: 7:11pm On Nov 20, 2007 |
Emmay: Some would cut off some peoples oxygen supply and replace it with carbon monoxide. ![]() |
Re: Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by mmonwuba(m): 11:23pm On Nov 20, 2007 |
if man were God, oxygen would have totally been monopolized and paid for, no oxygen for common man be that. |
Re: Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by delarontus(f): 8:30am On Nov 21, 2007 |
@Seun: You said Galaxy was suing the federal governement for not allowing them to monopolise the internet but in your quote, its Interstella suing for N10 billion. Please clarify, who wants the monopoly? I think its Interstella from the stories i've read before now. |
Re: Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by Seun(m): 10:29am On Nov 21, 2007 |
Sorry guys, I made a mistake. It's Interstella, not Galaxy. Once again, I'm so sorry for that mistake. Apologies. |
Re: Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by 9ja4eva: 7:21am On Nov 22, 2007 |
mmonwuba: Life for be monopoly too |
Re: Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by slimes(m): 12:20pm On Nov 22, 2007 |
BekinableG:Interstella for monoplize Nigeria too ;DOloshi. |
Re: Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by minsk: 7:53am On Nov 23, 2007 |
It's the same monopoly shit in Thailand. |
Re: Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by fyneguy: 10:01am On Nov 28, 2007 |
Mehn, if oxygen were for sale, i would be a militant |
Re: Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by amigoes(m): 11:12am On Nov 30, 2007 |
nwando:. well said. well quoted. |
Re: Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by uchetobi(f): 11:34am On Nov 30, 2007 |
wow! interesting |
Re: Nigerian Company Wants To Monopolize The Internet by absalut: 9:31pm On Jun 20, 2016 |
Seun:you have grown older and probably changed a lot. But remember this day, stop Mynd44 (he is like that evil cyborg[absolutism's last words before a 10year ban]). Make nairaland free again 1 Like |
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