Hi Badru Your talk about the TNO indicates a very good job done by UCC. However all this was not part of the document that I received from them thats why I was complaining of scanty information. If indeed UCC will do as you state below, then I would like to congratulate them big time.
I just discovered today while talking to a Malaysian colleague that the format is similar in their country too. Way to go. Wire > Now the issue of the TNO. > > I read the story and the comments. If you read the UCC policy document > which by the way I recommend anybody serious about the industry to take > time and read, we have a long way to go as a country to achieve anything > near universal access. All the RCDF objectives and moneys will not even > help us achieve 20% of what the population wants/needs. So how do we try > and achieve this connectivity. The plan is to make infrastructure > provision a business separated from service provision. Once that is > achieved you then look at the current providers and ask whether in a > controlled market environment they can achieve our national objectives. > Not forgetting that our national objectives have to first fit into their > business and strategic objectives. > > Now to make value for the infrastructure a market has to be created thus > the vision of two types of license. Infrastructure and service. The > service provider would then offer service to it's clients over the > infrastructure provided by the national operator (infrastructure > provider). The service provider is further protected by the "self > Provision" clause which says if you can prove that non of the operators > can deliver the infrastructure at the market price that would enable you > to do business then you can self provide. > > A service provider would not be restricted in what service he or she > provides as longer as certain guidelines to protect the industry and > consumer are adhered to. (even VOIP will be open) > > > > I hope this shines a bit of light on the reasoning. As much as we all > want deregulation our market is not yet mature enough to fully open. At > the end it will be the consumers and ultimately the country who surfers > and then the same voices will be saying UCC allowed all these cowboys to > come in build a patchwork network rip us all off and then leave taking > their money away. > > Then when you look at other fully developed markets, there is still a > level of regulation in terms of number of players. > > I honesty cannot do this topic justice over the list so I believe we need > an open forum where we can start looking and planning a post regulation > industry what is in for the consumer and small business ?. > > We are in the final stages of setting up our ISP association and I think > this will be the first topic on our public sensitization process. > > Lets however keep the dialogue. Over the years I have heard too many > voices, and I was disappointed that when the time came they all went > silent. > > Thanks Mark for waking the topic, do not put it back to sleep. > > Guys this is your industry and you have a chance to shape it, as they say > speak now or forever keep your peace. > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
