May 2026 – Dalkom Somalia

May 15, 2026
By Dalkom Editor
Connectivity

How many companies are between you and the beach manhole?

Every ISP in Somalia is reselling somebody's capacity. The question that decides your margin, your latency and your outage experience is how many parties sit between your customers and the point where the cable comes ashore.

How to test a diversity claim before you need it to be true

Every provider will tell you their network is redundant. Redundancy is a property of a physical path, not of a proposal, and there are five questions that separate the two.

The office cupboard was never a data centre

For most of the last decade, keeping records in Somalia meant a server in a room nobody had designed for one. That was not a choice anybody made — it was the absence of an alternative, and the alternative now exists.

May 11, 2026
By Dalkom Editor
Satellite

When satellite is the right answer, and when we will tell you it is not

Satellite is sold hardest to the people who need it least. Four situations where it is genuinely the correct engineering choice — and the cases where we would tell you to take fibre and spend the difference elsewhere.

May 10, 2026
By Dalkom Editor
Connectivity

Coverage is a backhaul problem, not a radio problem

Putting a base station in a town is the easy part. Getting its traffic back to a core network, in a country where most of the route has to be built rather than leased, is what decides whether the site ever gets built.

May 9, 2026
By Dalkom Editor
Sectors

The outage that costs a bank money is the one at 4pm

Somalia runs one of the most mobile-money-dependent economies in the world, which makes the network underneath it systemically important. For a financial institution, network design is a settlement-risk question wearing a technical costume.

May 8, 2026
By Dalkom Editor
Sectors

Sovereignty is decided by where the rack is

A digital public service is only as sovereign as the building its records sit in. Four questions settle it, and none of them are answered by a clause in a contract.

May 7, 2026
By Dalkom Editor
Sectors

Broadcast traffic is not big, it is relentless

A contribution feed does not care what your peak speed is. It cares whether the capacity is there for the whole duration, every time — which is a different product from the one most providers sell.

How many companies are between you and the beach manhole?

How to test a diversity claim before you need it to be true

The office cupboard was never a data centre

When satellite is the right answer, and when we will tell you it is not

Coverage is a backhaul problem, not a radio problem

The outage that costs a bank money is the one at 4pm

Sovereignty is decided by where the rack is

Broadcast traffic is not big, it is relentless

Antennas are the cheap part of a ground station

Nobody wants to own the last mile

The first fortnight of a response is a connectivity problem

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