I fail to see why running an Internet café would be "abuse". If I buy a service, I reserve the right to do as I damned well please with that service, within the scope of the service of course. It's a bit like trying to sell groceries to people and then make them swear they are not going to "abuse" this service by cooking the food and sell in a restaurant. For Internet service providers, "abuse" seems to be synonymous to "turning a profit"...
Regarding capacity: Is the Ugandan bottleneck the capacity *within* Uganda itself or the capacity of the link between Uganda and the world? If the latter, they should do as Australia did in the beginning and provide a discount or laxer bandwidth limitations on Internet traffic within Uganda, and set up local mirrors to serve popular larger downloads. It would ease the load on the Uganda-world link considerably if people could, for example, download Ubuntu from a local mirror. Richard Obore <[email protected]> wrote: Web caps - An interesting read! In the Ugandan context, my theory is we have caps for these reasons: 1) Capacity = if they removed the caps their networks would collapse under the load 2) Increase Average Revenue Per User = When your cap runs out, you buy more, they get more money 3) Corporate customers = would have no reason to buy the expensive corporate packages instead of smaller unlimited packages. 4) Abuse = someone at orange told me that when they'd just launched the USB modems, they discovered some guy who was using it to run an internet cafe! Why do you think we have caps? Richard On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Simon Vass <[email protected]> wrote: An interesting article on Web caps. http://corp.sonic.net/ceo/2011/12/02/web-hogs/ 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 _______________________________________________ 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.
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