On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 5:17 PM, amanya <whynnot@gmail.com> wrote:
Alex and Bernard you are mixing up two issues here: the ideal and what is.
It is not certain that your analysis is accurate. Nonetheless...
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Of which local experience has repeatedly proven that left unchecked that led donkey meat, kumi kumi and fungus infested loaves and poisonous wheat and flour being sold.
Adam Smith An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, par. I.2.2
pass,
The telcos will continue giving crappy service, and they are not alone in this, until regulation forces them otherwise. As Bernard rightly points out, an actual Consumers Association would be a huge step forward.
Translating your belief into action, did you at least comment on consumer protection and tariffs regulations by CCK when they were out? Generically, it helps little to critisize, blame or point fingers at when one does not contribute to stated own advice.
That said am stymied when Alex argues, and a second time at that, "Over [the] last 1 year the service was degraded..." and still has an issue with Orange upgrading its network. BTW Alex, Orange did reduce the prices of their data bundles.
I subscribed a good quality service as demonstrated for which I agreed to pay a certain amount. Whatever they wan to do with their network is none of my business - so long as they continue delivering the contracted service at the agreed price. About their bundles, I do not know and I do not want to know because the archives attest to my dislike of the whole 'bundle' thingie.. a.