RE: Broken Internet for school, all financed by our money

From: S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 06:17:32 -0700

Hi Sundeep,
At 22:09 16-03-2015, Sundeep Jogoo wrote:
>I would like to add on this one. This is a major issue for all
>academic institutions in Mauritius. Colleagues from abroad find it
>ridiculous that the pricing for dedicated lines are that expensive.
>On top of that, there is no such thing which exist as educational
>pricing, compared to other countries.
>
>Universities, using adsl lines, but this does not come with static
>ip addressing. In the end, we are just having the same service as a
>home user, except that the price is almost doubled for business. Now
>that MT have started putting Fiber, but they still haven't grasp the
>technologies behind it and what infrastructure is needed. On top of
>that the service we, as educational institutions are paying, are not
>up to the standard.

It is not a matter of MT not grasping the technology. The customers,
in this case academic institutions, do not get together and express
their needs or else they do not do it publicly.

The pricing for dedicated lines is expensive as nobody analyzes the
issues to argue that it can be less expensive. As an example, if I
were to say that the cost is cheaper in U.K. it could be argued (and
it is correct) that the market is different in that country. I do
not think that we can blindly take what we see in another country,
implement it in Mauritius and expect it to work correctly.

The "standard" in Mauritius is to use ADSL for everything. It is a
third-world country approach.

>In a way, if a business is paying a huge amount of money for
>internet connection-adsl/dedicated lines, we expect to have a
>minimum standard of bandwidth allocation.

Yes.

>If the Govt wants to have a knowledge hub (well the previous govt
>was stressing on that), they should start thinking how other
>countries are doing and I agree with the point "Exchange points for education"

I don't think that Exchanges points for education is a good
idea. The local exchange point has been inaugurated twice. It is
still not working.

How much would an academic institution save if the price of internet
access was not so ridiculous? Probably a lot of money. I would not
argue about educational pricing as there are more interesting ways to
get the same or maybe a better deal.

If I was working on the above my estimate to have something working
would be 18 months.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy
Received on Tue Mar 17 2015 - 13:23:32 PST