I long ago resigned myself to my fate. That I will always have 1/16th of the advertised speeds and be forced to spend on multiple connections to the Internet.
Meanwhile, Brazil is looking at an Internet Bill of Rights!
http://www.deepdishwavesofchange.org/blog/2012/09/world%E2%80%99s-first-bill-internet-rights
2012/9/13 Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com>:
> https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/nmutungu%40gmail.com> I remember a similar issue in the UK and the consumer federation took it up
> and forced the broadband providers to define the FUP and the expected speeds
> during their campaigns. Can COFECK take this up?
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> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:30 PM, John Gitau <jgitau@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> and thats why we kept the ITU out of the internet business, too many rules
>> and control. We might let them in through the new itr's but talk of QOS on
>> the internet just doesnt add up so far unless we change the current
>> commercial settlement models. But this sort of deviates from what the
>> original post was about so I'll leave it at that for now.
>>
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>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Victor Kapiyo <vkapiyo@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I think there are well established definitions and standards e.g. those
>>> developed by the ITU on QoS.
>>>
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