On 12 jul 2010, at 10.44, Desi Valli wrote: > > > 1. As far as the answer to the first question is concern, the responsibility of reduction in cost of operations always remain with every organisation. While, such responsibilities are addressed, everyone tries to see available avenues, and it is an on-going process. Now, to understand the significance of few thousand dollars from a developing country perspective, it is important to understand the geo-political environment of those countries. Unless, we understand the ground realities, it is impossible to accept a happening as a problem. This is not pertinent only between countries but sometimes within a country too. For instance, I'm from a small village-town where I paid 16Rs (0.35USD) per year as my school fees (yes its per yearJ). Even now, after 20 years of me completing the school, it has increased the fees to 25 Rs (0.54USD). While I express these to my colleagues in Delhi, where I live now, they can't accept or understand. But this is a reality of the economic condition of this side of the world. > > > > PS: The above said instance need to be taken as an example for understanding the importance of costing in developing country perspective, not to be ignored with statements like irrelevant in this context etc., On a somewhat different topic to the current thread - the above made me a bit curious. Looking from an end-user point of view, is there any data on the cost of service and what the components are? I know that most/all EC countries have to collect parts of this data from the operators and publish it. Is something similar done in for example India? I.e breakdown of end-user costs based on OPEX in terms of staff, training etc CAPEX Cost of regulation Cost of access to last-mile Cost of access to regional/national infrastructure Cost of international transport capacity Cost of international Internet transit? Etc.. is this available? Best regards, - kurtis -
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