Hi john, Well, I had opted not to comment on this, but since you asked.... There are a number of different ways to go about major infrastructure development: 1) For-Profit: Put together a business case with a clear Return-On-Investment (ROI) benefit; go out and find the money, then build and deploy - hopefully the market will respond well and the investors get their return (e.g. SEACOM) 2) Means-to-an-end: Determine the total costs for the project, go to the primary stakeholders; Oil companies in the case of oil pipelines, gas companies in the case of gas companies, operators & ISPs in the case of bandwidth; sell them the concept of delivering the commodity to themselves at cost (or as near to cost as possible); set up an "Operations & Maintenance" structure which levies the same parties; build and deploy; once the bandwidth is delivered it's a "free-for-all" in the marketplace - with * COSTS* at a very low level, prices will evenetually follow due to competition (e.g. TEAMs and EASSY) This is one of the main reasons why projects such as TEAMs and EASSY have faced stiff opposition, criticism and outright attempted sabotage - because they have the potential to cut the feet out from under any similar commercial venture. Regards, Brian On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:22 PM, John Walubengo <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanx Sam, Victor, Brian, Faima, Mwende & Bill for your quick contributions...am sure there are more insights out there. Plse share using easily understandable wordings for the benefit of our international Listers...
Bill, - "Bubudiu mbovu" - when I was growing up, this used to mean "misleading propaganda" was that your intepretation of the "TEAMS project not aiming to make money out of the cable" comment from Brian?
walu.
--- On Tue, 4/28/09, Bildad Kagai <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Bildad Kagai <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [kictanet] IG Discussions- Day 2 of 10: Infrastructure Issues-Submarine Cables To: [email protected] Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 1:28 PM On Apr 28, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe wrote:
Don't forget that TEAMs is a 'developmental' cable system i.e. it's investors are not aiming to make any money out of the cable itself
Bubudiu mbovu.
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