Not charging for local traffic is no different than not charging for Facebook traffic; both actions violate net neutrality principles in exactly the same way.
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Reinier Battenberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hari, >> >> 1) Suggest you lobby your ISP to remove data caps? > > Or make your ISP charge a lower fee for local traffic, after all, its free for > them, too. > > (and Mike, dont give me that crap this time that you cant do it, because what > is good for facebook, is even better for local traffic. And no, the > infrastructure is not free, but mandatory to maintain anyways, ah, and when > google came along, all of a sudden local traffic was interesting enough to > connect to the cache at UTL. Why not play as nice for local businesses? Might > actually create a community of entrepeneurial tech companies.) > > >> >> 2) What was your calculation on that? The video res is quite low. >> >> >> >> Simon Vass >> Managing Director >> E-Tech Uganda Ltd >> >> http://www.etech.ug >> Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621 >> email: [email protected] >> skype: e-techservicedesk >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Hari Kurup" <[email protected]> >> To: "Uganda Linux User Group" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, 1 October, 2011 8:52:14 PM >> Subject: Re: [LUG] Web-conferencing solutions hosted in Uganda? >> >> On 1 October 2011 16:59, Reinier Battenberg >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > For people who want to play with it, here is a demo install, running > locally >> > >> > http://bigbluebutton.mountbatten.net:83 >> >> >> Great stuff but by my calculation, 1 hour of this would eat up 1GB of >> my data cap. *ouch* >> >> -- >> Hari >> _______________________________________________ >> The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug >> >> Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] >> Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug >> To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug >> >> The Uganda LUG mailing list 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 mailing list host is not responsible for them in any > way. >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >> believed to be clean. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug >> >> Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] >> Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug >> To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug >> >> The Uganda LUG mailing list 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 mailing list host is not responsible for them in any > way. >> > -- > rgds, > > Reinier Battenberg > Director > Mountbatten Ltd. > +256 758 801 749 > www.mountbatten.net > http://twitter.com/batje > http://twitter.com/mapuganda > > > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list 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 mailing list host is not responsible for them in any > way. > _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list 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 mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
