[lugm.org] Adventures @ Orange ISP

[kn at debian.mu]

Fully agree with u both!, but you should bear in mind that there is a political part behind! Internet access hasn't been deregulated.

MT has got a very good backbone (dark fibers for local) with last mile delivered via copper, (multiple oc192 circuits for transit atm/sonat). MT could have provided 20Mbps adsl2+  packages for home use (technically its possible), but it costs them a lot in terms of licenses.

Normally an ISP (the case in mauritius) is allowed to provide only local last mile, if you decide to provide international traffic (you become an international ISP), there are many licenses to pay! You pay a license for buying bandwidth, you pay a license for selling the same bandwidth you bought! Licenses Licenses Licenses Licenses (check on icta site)! Who introduced that ? The stupid government, Who rule that part? The ICTA

And you expect to have a great connectivity at home??

And the funny part I remember, the honorable minister of finance announced a decrease in price for both home / business dsl & ipvpn during the budget. The company I work for is currently paying 4x 4Mbps ipvpn @ 6000USD each which is uplinked to a gigabit circuit with cogent at the last mile in europe, guess what the Gge circuit is only 559Euros monthly!




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-----Original Message-----
From: Didier Rosine <didierr at intnet.mu>
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Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 20:51:49 
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Subject: Re: [lugm.org] Adventures @ Orange ISP

Agree with you Nishal

Didier

On 5/19/2011 4:12 PM, Nishal Goburdhan wrote:
> On May 18, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Keshwarsingh Nadan wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The only entity to blame here is the ICTA!
> perhaps;  the question is, if the ICTA isn't doing what you need it to, how can you help it (constructively)?
> this isn't -- or shouldn't be -- a blame exercise;  as techies (i'm assuming most people here are), your first natural instinct is usually (!) to fix the problem.
> when you start playing the blame game, you lose objectiveness;  when you do that, your integrity as an impartial tester/observer/researcher/blah is compromised.
>
> if you follow through on something similar to that which i wrote earlier, and take that to the ICTA, do you really believe it'll be *that* easy for them to dismiss your findings.
> especially if it's done in an open, scientific manner (my punt again to get a CS student to do this as part of a class exercise in networking) - as opposed to someone just screaming"  ZOMG, dis downloadz suxorz".  and if testing of something like this, is going to be done in an open, scientific* (those magic words..) manner, then who better than the impartial, techno-savvy members of the community - like the people on this list.
>
> if the ICTA does dismiss the testing, don't you think the press would find that interesting?
>
> --n.
>
> *  who knows;  you may even get paid for it by the competition...
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