battikh wroteisn't it how most businesses work? that's competition, there's rarely fair play and ethics in business...
are ogero wrong to try to grab more business? ogero are doing what any normal business is supposed to do.
the problem is somewhere else, probably the laws that don't protect ISPs, don't treat them all equally, ...
but if ogero have the legal right to do whatever they are doing, why shouldn't they?
Not exactly. As a public institution (owned by the state), Ogero's role is not to make money but to provide a public service, in this case to provide a viable Internet situation for the Lebanese. It doesn't have to make benefits either. The Social Security system of France (one of the best in the world) is currently loosing 2
billion euros (that's fairly 3 000 000 000$) per year. The competition should be between private ISPs fighting for market shares.
One of the solutions could be that Ogero stops its commercial business all together and focuses on selling bandwidth only to ISPs. You could still find a way to make this profitable and thus improving the situation overall.
A friend of mine had a theory that Ogero's real goal is to limit Internet access as much as possible, mainly because it makes a lot of money on international calls (with so many Lebanese living abroad). If internet starts spreading and high-speed connections become widely available, what's stopping VoIP to take over??
Just some food for thoughts...
