[AusNOG] Syria cut's itself off!

[Aqius]

No doubt, but those satellites are roaming all over the sky, and many of
them are not owned by these single organisations. 

Just the same as we have an 'emergency' service here in Oz where it uses any
carrier, I'm suggesting a global emergency service could be provided... I'm
not saying it wouldn't have a few challenges, but from a technical
perspective, it shouldn't be that hard to deliver in this day and age.

We have the UN, we can surely have this as well if only enough people want
it. The only real challenges I'd see are political, social and potentially
financial... In other words a walk in the park!! ;) 



-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Craig Small
Sent: Sunday, 2 December 2012 09:36
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Syria cut's itself off!

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 05:14:09PM +1100, Aqius wrote:
>    Surely there must be more we can do in this day and age? What would it
>    take for independent carriers to provide a little `emergency' bandwidth
in
>    such a situation even if it's GPRS it'd make all the difference.
You'd probably be amazed at how many countries all their internet goes
through a single organisation, usually the government owned carrier.
There might be a few local isps but it all rolls back to the one group that
could, if it wanted to, throw the switch.

In some places even the small-bandwidth satellite stuff is regulated and
restricted to some international organisations.


 - Craig

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