Noah, I think Steen's reasoning is based on the fact that the direction in which uganda should head is like every body else and offcourse high prices cannot be justified anymore, however seeing that CFI put there time and money into managing this infrastructure it should simply not be snatched away just because the GOU now see it as something valuable, dialogue and proper planning should be done.
The issue here is that the GOU at times makes the strangest decisions which are not well justified , a good example is the current ICT minister who just sworn in, a man who am sure has no idea of what has been going on technologically in uganda since the internet boom in uganda, so the issue we should be fighting here is not only the fact that the GOU needs to align itself to international and recognizable standards but to also have a form of leadership which is based on what the country really needs not for anyones personal profit because thats all its all about and with this going on , we can have this discussion for the next decade, when your kids grow, till when we grow old and die and we can remember we had it but in the corridors of power the only thing that makes sense to them its profit. How we change this mindset is the hardest part and we can only do it united and actually have some knowledgable people in the right places who will not simply take all the work done for granted and for profit. regards On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Noah Sematimba <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 9, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Steen Andersen wrote: > > Hi > > In Denmark the .DK domain is administered by "DK Hostmaster", a "not for > profit" company! > A .DK domain cost approx. USD 9 pr. year! > > You can read more here https://www.dk-hostmaster.dk/english > > If it is possible in other parts of the world - why not Uganda!! > > > Economies of scale. In the early 2000-2002 years when I was actively > involved in .ug domain registration, we got only a handful of requests per > year. Because of this, the cost per domain was very high because the costs > of running the registry were spread over a very small number. At that time > the average ISP had a 128kbps or 256kbps link which it then gave dialup > access to its customers as primary business with a few wireless customers. > In fact we would flock to any ISP that had anything like a 512kbps link. > > As the number of internet users grew, the costs of registering a .ug domain > have been going lower and lower almost every year because larger numbers of > people registering .ug domains means that the cost can be spread over more > people and thus cost per domain drops considerably. The same is reflected in > costs of internet access. > > You can't compare the economies of Denmark and Uganda, neither can you > realistically compare the number of internet users in Denmark as compared to > Uganda. At the moment, even just our neighbour Kenya is so far ahead of us > economically with GDP at $66bn as compared to Uganda's measly $42 billion. > How do you then compare us to Denmark whose GDP at $201bn is 5 times that > of Uganda? > > Noah. > > > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in > any way. >
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