Land lines could go the way of the dodo if EDGE becomes readily available
and cheap.
Slow tail gprs won't appeal to much but this faster variant could buss down
those poles.
Digicell bringing edge?
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Rose [mailto:phil@rosemedia.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 11:35 AM
To: gatt@gatt.co.tt
Subject: Re: {GATT} A more pressing TSTT question...
I highly doubt that land line charges will remain at this level.
those charges - along with the monthly rental fees - have been
ridiculously low anyhow.
same thing happened with our monopolistic telephone company some couple
years ago .. when they introduced
competition, long distance dropped like 200 or 300 % while local calls
went up.
I feel that long distance and cellphone charges will go down further as
soon as they introduce competition.
you won't see any competition in the regular telecommunications business
though, as tstt owns
the whole infrastructure. competitors would either have to rent access
to lines or build their own
system - both options don't seem viable to me as the customer base is
too small.
besides.. I don't think foreigners would've run tstt differently - they
turned in a pretty hefty profit after all,
while running on a dated and crumbling infrastructure.
but ppl here seem to be able to swallow a lot - I remember that we had
weekly internet boycotts running
(with millions participating) to pressure the company in dropping
prices. do the same here with a couple
thousand cell or dial-up users and tstt will feel the heat.
Corbeaux wrote:
>The backlash is very real, there are people who moved off of TSTT's
services
>and are paying more for services elsewhere simply because they don't like
>dealing with TSTT.
>
>
I wish there would be alternatives to tstt's adsl internet access. I
mean.. look at it, it's 3 times faster than dialup -
running at dual channel isdn speed. the least I would've expected, would
be something like 384 k or 512k down for the basic package
@ 220 TT$ max. /month.
>And Sean is right, I don't think they will raise land line charges either,
>in fact I expect them to go down within a year.
>
>
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