[members-discuss] Transfers from Ukraine

On 05/11/2022 09:55, Roman Perelshtein wrote:
> Hi Jan,

Hi,

> 
> Not funny.

I did not try to be funny. My question was serious.

> 
> There are a lot of unplanned expenses when the infrastructure of your
> country is being destroyed.
> Buy more batteries solar panels and generators some equipment upgraded
> to the less power hungry to name some...

As a member of "Keep Ukraine Connected" initiative I'm completely aware
of that, we are sending a lot of equipment to operators in Ukraine and
we plan to send much more.

> 
> All of this requires money. And that is all with your customer base
> significantly reduced.

Just my curiosity - wasn't the outgoing transfer of money out of Ukraine
forbidden?

> One plus of a customer base reduction: you have the ability to sell part
> of your IP addresses to survive.

I'm just guessing here - the funds from sold IPv4 space goes directly to
generator/battery/equipment supplier somewhere in Europe and they
provide the equipment?

Cheers and thnx for all you do to keep people connected in Ukraine!

Jan

> 
> So yes, we are also against ban.
> 
> On 04-Nov-22 04:15, Jan Zorz - Go6 wrote:
>> On 26/10/2022 18:00, Leonid Khorolets wrote:
>>> We are against the initiative to ban all the transfers of IP addresses
>>> from Ukraine! We want to have this source of funds to keep our network
>>> running and pay salaries!
>> Dear Leonid,
>>
>> I don't understand this properly... are you selling IPv4 addresses so
>> you can run your network and pay salaries? That doesn't seem like a
>> sustainable business, does it? At least not for long if you are not
>> planning to run IPv6-only network quite soon :)
>>
>> Cheers, Jan
>>
>>
>>
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