On Feb 02, 2005, at 15:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
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