Comments on: Crunch time for VANS license holders http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/11/19/crunch-time-for-vans-license-holders/ Ideas are bulletproof.. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:07:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: joe http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/11/19/crunch-time-for-vans-license-holders/comment-page-1/#comment-4222 joe Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:31:08 +0000 http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/11/19/crunch-time-for-vans-license-holders/#comment-4222 Hi Ashraf Nope. I'm not longer in the ISP game. Hi Ashraf

Nope. I’m not longer in the ISP game.

]]> By: Ashraf http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/11/19/crunch-time-for-vans-license-holders/comment-page-1/#comment-4213 Ashraf Sun, 12 Dec 2010 04:50:15 +0000 http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/11/19/crunch-time-for-vans-license-holders/#comment-4213 Hi Joe, I have applied for conversion to the Individual ECS and an Individual ECNS licence, now I need a solid business plan, can you assist? Hi Joe, I have applied for conversion to the Individual ECS and an Individual ECNS licence, now I need a solid business plan, can you assist?

]]> By: joe http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/11/19/crunch-time-for-vans-license-holders/comment-page-1/#comment-2107 joe Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:02:53 +0000 http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/11/19/crunch-time-for-vans-license-holders/#comment-2107 Inv. ECNS gives you the ability to apply for spectrum, which is scarce. You may also get rights to dig up roads to lay fibre, we may not want everybody digging up roads. In the end, the infrastructure business is highly capital intensive.. which is different to the service business. A simple example of this in other industries is that universities have quotas on the number of professionals they train which enter the market. Supply and demand. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but I can see the practicality. Inv. ECNS gives you the ability to apply for spectrum, which is scarce. You may also get rights to dig up roads to lay fibre, we may not want everybody digging up roads.

In the end, the infrastructure business is highly capital intensive.. which is different to the service business.

A simple example of this in other industries is that universities have quotas on the number of professionals they train which enter the market. Supply and demand.

I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, but I can see the practicality.

]]> By: Simeon http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/11/19/crunch-time-for-vans-license-holders/comment-page-1/#comment-2105 Simeon Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:10:22 +0000 http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/11/19/crunch-time-for-vans-license-holders/#comment-2105 Hi Joe "How many lions can you put in a park before they starve?. We are talking about assigning scarce resources and it must be an open process. Well, open enough." What scarce resource are you referring to? Spectrum is a scarce resource, but the right to provision infrastructure seems to be a separate issue from spectrum allocation. I realize that you're being forced to play the game according to the rules that the ECA has set, but are you seriously suggesting the number of providers who get a piece of the market *should* be *regulated* to solve the "how many lions" problem? How "open" is that? Regards, Simeon. Hi Joe

“How many lions can you put in a park before they starve?. We are talking about assigning scarce resources and it must be an open process. Well, open enough.”

What scarce resource are you referring to? Spectrum is a scarce resource, but the right to provision infrastructure seems to be a separate issue from spectrum allocation.

I realize that you’re being forced to play the game according to the rules that the ECA has set, but are you seriously suggesting the number of providers who get a piece of the market *should* be *regulated* to solve the “how many lions” problem? How “open” is that?

Regards,
Simeon.

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