IMO, the real dissapointment is the failure of a local ISP to move up the
food chain as it were. Most of the problems and limitations in the ISP
business in UG, and EA in general, are due to factors outside the control of
local operators. The Big Dish project would have helped a long way towards
resolving these issues, but now we may never see it come to fruition.
As I write this I am sitting on a fast connection (7Mbps down) in the US that
costs only $25/month and comes bundled with 40 digital TV Channels. And this
is in a country with a GDP per capita of something like 100 times Uganda.
Seriously, as long as connectivity in UG is extremely expensive, and high
latency, I don't see how we can begin to do anything serious as far as IT is
concerned. This is an area I feel the government should help out, either by
speeding up the EASSY project (or any other fiber) or making a facility for
bulk bandwidth purchases via satellite that would drive down the price.
----- Original Message -----
From: Wire James
To: Linux Users Group Uganda
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 9:03 AM
Subject: [LUG] Bushnet under Receivership - OT
Hi Guys
I really do feel so sorry for Bushnet Ltd's current status. It is a pity that
a company that provided innovative solutions for quite a long time has ended
up where it is right now. We may or may never know what went wrong but it is
never the less a sad thing.
My heart goes out to the employees who are now jobless (so I have been told).
Some of us looked up to Bushnet as a Big Brother and thought that we could
scale to their levels of operation, only to be heartbroken. Its my prayer
that whoever buys the company can rejuvenate it.
Wire
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