
Listers, We might need to be enlightened abit more on this. When we closely follow up the developments leading to the "promotions", or "offers" as they are called by the Service providers offering the unlimited connectivity, they came as a result of a sustained engagement and pressure from the likes of this forum on the providers. As expected, the offer uptake from the consumer has been massive and unprecedented. This is indicator no.1. Does it tell the providers something...? Now, if this is anything to go by, I also want to believe this to be a perfect opportunity to measure up takeup volumes - which if am not wrong must be turning in some tidy revenue sums,judging especially by the slowness in connectivity when the offer is on.. So big question is, where is the bottleneck..? Networks capacity or Bandwidth capacity, or both? A Question of demand superceeding supply/capacity..? A logjam...? Definitely indicator no.2. We need to push and demand our service providers to ensure they have uptake capacity of the numerous numbers of subscribers they have taken onboard. Otherwise, I suppose the regulator needs to step in and enforce quality of service especially now with the numerous complaints of service degradation. Now, tie this in with the status of the 3G debate( Seems it's grown cold now) - I suppose we can only demand better. Certainly the end user is not getting value for money, I daresay, and we need a forum ASAP with the service providers to tell the internet fraternity what they are upto. It's so commonplace these days for consumers to get promises of dedicated bandwidth connectivity bundles, only for the same to turn into nightmarish clogs. I believe sensitization of the end user need to become key here at this rate. The Regulator have their work cut out here.. Next, we need to know what happened with price clamp down, on general Broadband connectivity. When internet connectivity becomes the engine that drives the economy, just like in our case at the moment,we can only expect all stakeholders to be very sensitive in nurturing the same to build up capacities across all sectors.... Is anyone listening..? Harry