While i was working in rwanda , i watched terracom come in and dig fibre all over the ministries ( btw -they all on one street) in record time and then had them switch off there 3.5Ghz broadband links , one by one .
This i found so interesting because i had never seen service provision that fast and even then it was stable. Terracom then targetted RwandaTel which had a Russian Head Techie who never actually sat at the main office , worked out of the office..UNDP to be precise , to get access to the server room one would have to send email and then the dude would come over, found that abit silly but hey thats how they operated. RwandaTel never really utilized its resources, they just had a bunch of rwandese who just enjoyed eating goverment money. Greg's strategy was just perfect and not expected by some of the providers in rwanda mainly , MediaPost, Artel (VSAT providers), MTN ( was not too active ..initially got bandwidth from MediaPost ) infact he is known to some of the heads of these companies as a "Gangstar" :). Personally i believe Greg has done good , unfortunately i dont think there is any provider in kigali that can compete with Terracom at the moment, i would expect MTN to do something , but internet provision was never there core business and i dont think they will go into it, BTW - by the time i was in rwanda ( early 2004 - 2005) , there where 11 Leased lines and that was over a period of 5 or 7 years IIRC.... Look at it this way: Internet is cheap , but equipment is too expensive a 1721 router == $5k ( thats would be the average costing ) ma 2 shillings :) _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG 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 List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
