Aviation networks do not fail gracefully
Most enterprise networks degrade. Air traffic communications do not have that middle state, which changes what you are buying and how you should specify it.
The satellite hub in another country is costing you a second
Most satellite service sold into Somalia is operated from a hub on another continent. The physics of that decision are not subtle, and they show up in every application that expects a reply.
Which submarine cables actually land in Somalia — and how to check
Somalia's National Communications Authority publishes a register of every submarine cable landing in the country, and who operates each landing station. If you are buying capacity, that register settles arguments a sales meeting cannot.
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 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.