On 9/29/09 10:49 AM, Wire James wrote:- > Herbert > > The grapevine has it that Warid approached the MoICT with a request to > use the National Backbone for capacity. After 8 months of waiting for a > response and getting noe from the ministry, they decided to start > digging their own. See how people in Govt aren't business minded? > Reminds me of the UETCL official who 4 years ago when asked why they > were not leasing out capacity on their fibre, the chap responded by > saying that UETCL doesn't need to put other people on the fibre that > they have laid on their power lines. He stated how it was for them > exclusively. A few months back, I saw an advert where they were inviting > companies to help them commercialise that data capacity. I wonder what > he has to say now.
UETCL has always wanted to lease their fibre from 5 years ago. Except that they asked for way too much money. IIRC, they quoted $20,000 per month to Infocom. I don't know what it is now. -- Hari _______________________________________________ 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. ---------------------------------------
