Mike,
I feel your pain, the price and the value abroad is un matched; and this is in a simple home location, you can chat, work on a doc with three folks in disparate locations and however fast you type and multitask, its click and vroom, like you are on your own screen. Previously it was in about only half of the US, now all 6 locations I used had it as part of the freebie in the hotel room. So who can supply band width at low low prices and keep the price at the end user low low ? what incentives would they need ? Lets talk and then we forward to UIA. I am on a govt voluntary committee for business process outsourcing for this kind of thing, so the new developments put me to shame, as in , what's the full story, could we have done something to keep them afloat for the good of the industry ? warmest regards Shem Nnaggenda Kanabi-Nsubuga Head Business Planning, CB Projects, Business Process Re-Engineering CONSUMER BANKING ~ SCB UGANDA Standard Chartered Bank, 5 Speke Rd, P. O. Box 7111, Kampala, Uganda Office Tel: +256 41 258211/5, 349505/9 ext 4268; Direct +256 41 237784 or +256 312 294268 Cell: 256 71 2 533 096 AEN: 256 4268 "Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight. Whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted" ________________________________________________________________________ ___ ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Mukasa Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 7:43 PM To: Linux Users Group Uganda Subject: Re: [LUG] Bushnet under Receivership - OT 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 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Linux Users Group Uganda <mailto:[email protected]> 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 ________________________________ Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48248/*http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni _on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz> This email is confidential. If you are not the addressee tell the sender immediately and destroy this email without using, sending or storing it. Emails are not secure and may suffer errors, viruses, delay, interception and amendment. Standard Chartered PLC and subsidiaries ("SCGroup") do not accept liability for damage caused by this email and may monitor email traffic.
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