[afnog] Standards wars (was: [members-discuss] Alteration of the Constitution of AFRINIC)

[Amin Dayekh]

Dear S.M.

Thank you for your insight.

Indeed an upstream that will tie any network to a specific brand category
is untrue.

With the rapid changes in our industry we should have always be openminded
to change, so that we dont fall prey to Nokia story

On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM <sm+afrinic at elandsys.com> wrote:

> Dear Amin,
> At 11:46 AM 07-08-2025, Amin Dayekh wrote:
> >I read your email with keen interest. I will leave the debate on the
> >legal matters until a later time, but as you are
>
> I read your article.[1]  There was a standards war over CDMA and GSM.
> GSM ended up as the dominant mobile phone standard.  It's not
> something new. There is usually two or more technologies competing
> against each other. A service provider which chooses the "wrong"
> technology ends up being at a disadvantage.
>
> I was chatting with someone from the West African region several year
> ago.  The person mentioned that the recommendation which he got was
> to purchase a specific equipment to connect to the upstream
> provider.  I commented that he doesn't have to purchase a specific
> make of equipment to run BGP.
>
> 5G was sold as 1 ms latency magic. There is a 2018 article about
> latency over a 5G connection:
> https://www.senki.org/5g-latency-reality-checks/
>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
> 1.
>
> https://medium.com/@AminDayekh/floppy-disk-to-cloud-dial-up-to-5g-3f189bdc36ed
>
>
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