On Monday 02 January 2006 17:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would like to inform you and others not to raise your > hopes prematurely. The Internet bandwidth prices might > not experience the kind of downward trend you highly > anticipate. Good case studies are Nigeria and Ghana > where fibre ports have not helped them much. Infact in > Ghana the ISP association had to go to court against > the Telco while in Nigeria, VSAT has still proved far > and I mean it far cheaper than the fibre costs. > > Please remember that the EASSY project has mainly 2 > investors from Uganda i.e. MTN and UTL. There is a > danger that they could pull a monopolistic stunt to > manage the rates at a certain minimum so as to recoup > their investment (which is also a valid argument in its > own right).
Agree! Mark.
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