On Feb 21, 2006, at 9:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Guido
U r the man from Kumasi. Can you let us know whether the
information below
is a true reflection of your country?
Ghana is a very complicated thing to describe. We have many more
subscribers and
we also have a retail mobile call service (someone buys a phone and
operates a
mobile comm centre), and unit to unit transfer services. But compared
to Kenya,
I feel their mobile services are more advanced in terms of the
services offered.
We had load shedding in the late 90s. Just around the time I started
my first
business. One day electricity, two days no electricity. Or one day
on, the next
day off. For almost six months, due to drought conditions affecting
the Lake
Volta. Situation improved, especially after govt renegotiated with
the aluminum
smelting company that helped build the dam in the first place, in
return for
free!! electricity, renegotiable after 50 years. Power is still a
problem and
water is increasingly becoming one as well. Infrastructure is not
keeping pace
with the growth of the cities generally. So there are a lot of
growing pains.
We have lots of raw material based industries but are finding that we
have a
weak economy since we are importing good stuff but always sending out
raw stuff.
Telco industry could have grown even more, except for govt regulation
of the
sector to protect the incumbent telco. Private mobile operator is by
far the
reason for the growth in teledensity. Incumbent telco operator is
much smaller
than the leading mobile operation. We still have a few problems with
the comm
sector as elsewhere in other sectors but its growing ...
I wouldn't say we have much tourism compared to East Africa. Timber
is being
depleted, the forests are vanishing at an alarmingly fast rate, and
not enough
is being replanted.
We don't want war here, but I think we have to be careful to make
sure it stays
that way and not to be overconfident in our stability. The CI guys
never ever
dreamed it could happen to them, and it just derailed them off the
tracks.
The market is liberalized but many industries have suffered and there
is still
too much interference to make it fully liberalized (we want VOIP!).
So there's
a lot of good things, but there are very many problems as well.
Culturally, I
also believe that we could work a lot harder and aim for a lot higher
than we
do now.
-- G.
Wire
When you compare the 2 economies, the governance of these
economies, "the
roads" :), trust me 1.8m is flaterring as opposed to 3m.
These guys have Gold deposits in Kumasi, flourishing Timber
exports, Cocoa
business is booming, their tourism industry actually exists, they
have no
war
in the North or any other direction(ignore CI), they have a cost
line of
their own and their Umeme doesn't load shed them lkike crazy
And by the way their market is liberalized! Why not 3M?
Rgds
JB
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
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Of
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Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 12:27 PM
To: Linux Users Group Uganda
Subject: Re: [LUG] MTN's 1 Million
When compared with Ghana our performance is appaling in Uganda.
Last I
remember they had about 3 million GSM (pronounced "Geezim")
subscribers
with a population similar to ours. Is something amiss over here?
Where we
can hardly raise 1.8 million subscribers in total.
Wire
The problem with this number is that to me it conveys even less
meaning than it purports to do. I can understand that the network is
happy with the achievement, and truth be told it is an
achievement of
sorts.
But if we are to put the performance of this industry into a
larger
national perspective, are these numbers that great?
It reminds me of a student who came to me complaining bitterly.
How could I give him 9% in the exam, when he distinctly remembers
putting in so much effort, and feeling that he had aced the paper?
So perhaps we should mark this paper now and see what marks we, the
professionals, give it!
P.
On Feb 20, 2006, at 17:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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From: Mark Tinka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 4:30 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Samuel Gitta
Subject: Re: [LUG] MTN's 1 Million
I think this is a reasonable basis for calculation.
In other operations it is 90 days. Remember also that
before the number change, if they where to count all
those who have bought MTN cell packs, it would have
been about two million (077/078).
This might not give an accurate number, as real value
comes from monthly ARPU.
ARPU - Average revenue per User has nothing to do with the
number of
subscribers, as at the number change at the beginning of the year,
the 078
range was about to run out, so in effect 2 million lines had been
sold.
Mark.
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