On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:32:39AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Until the deal is approved (and, probably, for some time after it's > approved) you see absolutely no change in anything regarding service > from the company.
That's an interesting point, but IMHO completely wrong. You are assuming that announcing the deal had no effect on ActCom. For example, I will NEVER purchase anything that comes from BEZEQ International (BBL). If they become the ONLY company selling Internet access in the country, I'll live without it. Since my yearly contract with HOT and Netvision is up this month, and my connection has deteriorated in terms of staying up, from one failure every other month, to three or four a week, I'm looking for alternatives. Now that the possibility exists that if I sign up with ActCom, I'll end up with BBL, they are no longer under consideration. While I doubt that most people don't feel as strongly as I do, there are lots of people out there who won't use their services. If they were considering a new ISP, they won't consider ActCom, if they were ActCom customers and their contract is up, they will change ISPs. This will cause ActCom's income to go down, which means they will have to reduce their expenses. One thing you don't want to do is to have lower profits when you are trying to sell your company. Since most people have no idea of what performance they get, or are supposed to get, the first thing ActCom will do is to reduce the international bandwidth they buy. This has probably started already, and will continue. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 Fax ONLY: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]