On Monday 21 June 2004 13:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We built the roads, we need traffic on these roads, mere email does not > make it a viable proposition. I put on both a techie and business hat and > I foresee the business hats in other organisations mine included asking > the question.
I haven't been back home in ages, so I can't say what's *hot*, but I know the work from TrueAfrican and SMSMedia attracted a lot of Internet traffic across the exchange, well, at least that's what it looked like from AfOL-UG's perspective. Traffic grew steadily. Badru is right, for the exchange to make any significant benefit of its creation, there has to be local/regional content that will drive traffic levels up. Connecting to the KE and Tz IX's would be a great, but we need to see some more local traffic. > ISP's have been the fall guys for the high bandwidth charges. (Granted > maybe some of us (the other guys :-) ) over price, but that's because we > /(they) are selling the expensive satellite access for people to go to > yahoo. Well, you could try setting up a www.yahoo.co.ug :). They have it in the UK, France, e.t.c., and the locals tend to use a lot more of the local portals, especially during the sign-up process, because of the ability to choose your country... anyway, you get the point. Mark. --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
