My 2cents, G is as earlier said, an improvement “across the board” and while I agree it should be infrastructural, I think it should be quality wise, reach and cost too!
Even as human beings when we say, “in my generation” we seldom speak about just age (which coincidentally is the qualifier) but also about standard of living, cost Of living and such measures of DEVELOPMENT. Now if an SOB who was formerly selling his bandwidth so expensively that 16kBps was the norm suddenly lowers price so as to make 512kbps a reality, don’t allow him to say, “this is the next generation”. I personally enjoyed Sam’s article because he defined ALL measures before telling you why no one in Uganda deserves to brag about achieving 4G. Boaz Shani tried to bring up the issue of false advertising to UCC to no avail because it seems telecos in Uganda seem to be the tail that wags the dog. The bandwidth game in Uganda is like that rape anecdote (Hi Kibuule!) Or the more tasteful but just as gross “juicy frog” anecdote both of which teach us to merely make the best of our being screwed over or having to eat a frog. Today bandwidth is the equivalent of what the floppy disk was when I began messing with Linux. Instead of asking how many floppies it took you to get X running on your distro, you now ask how the hell long it took you to download the latest stuff and its dependency. The fact that we have in country mirroring and have no consideration or support from a local telco shows clearly that the situation was/is dire and that it will continue to be so until the issue of false advertising and breach of promise is addressed. Today, I don’t know which ISP will not only take responsibility for down time but also reimburse you. When it comes to loss, “we are in this together because the cable was cut” but when it comes to gain, “we can’t lower price because that last mile is too costly”. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter C. Ndikuwera Sent: 25 September 2013 23:51 To: Uganda Linux User Group Subject: Re: [LUG] How far are Ugandan 4G networks “4G”? While wikipedia isn't the most trustworthy source, it's opening blurb seems to dispute what you're saying: "3G telecommunication networks support services that provide an information transfer rate of at least 200 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobit_per_second> kbit/s. However, many services advertised as 3G provide higher speed than the minimum technical requirements for a 3G service. Later 3G releases, often denoted <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.5G> 3.5G and <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.75G> 3.75G, also provide <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_broadband> mobile broadband access of several <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbps> Mbit/s to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone> smartphones and <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_modem> mobile modems in laptop computers." Seems to imply that to be called XG, a network has to provide a minimum transfer speed according to IMT-2000 specs. Now, the marketeers may be misusing the terms, but shouldn't one expect a "4G" network to provide a certain minimum speed? P. -- Evolution (n): A hypothetical process whereby infinitely improbable events occur with alarming frequency, order arises from chaos, and no one is given credit. On 25 September 2013 21:46, Benjamin Tayehanpour <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: On 25 September 2013 20:36, sanga collins <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: > In the states companies can face legal action for false advertising claims. > If the same mechanisms were in place in Uganda, local telcos may not be so > quick to throw catch phrases and marketing gimmicks at customers instead of > the service you are paying for. Again, the "G" isn't a measurement for speed, it's a measurement for generations. Each time you change the radio link technology to something newer, you increment one. In the USA, HSDPA is called 4G. In most of western Europe, HSDPA is known as 3G, or sometimes 3G+ or Turbo-3G or similar. It's a fairly worthless marketing term, that's it. Or were you referring to some actual speed claims in advertising I've missed? In that case, my apologies :) _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] <mailto:[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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