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To: GraceZ who wrote (942)	10/4/2000 5:35:01 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

The bottlenecks are artificial. Let me illustrate another type of bottleneck: They were throwing –pre crisis- 200.000 vehicles every year in Jakarta. The government licensed private companies to construct ring roads to alleviate the traffic. They invested in a very good infrastructure but the traffic jams continued. The private companies put tollgates every three miles or so and the toll gate plazas caused traffic jams. At the same time in Singapore the city state was in the process of collecting toll fees by satellite with some sort of device installed on the cars so that no one would have to stop, get coins, pay, get change, receipts and light a cigarrete etc. It is the same with telecoms: What is necessary, is not to put tollgates. It is necessary to review how you will operate this business. In the case of telecoms, I can use another example from Indonesia: The government, instead of investing on a comprehensive commuting system, allowed to any one with a small bus transport people. The traffic is terrible, since every bus is always trying to overtake each other to get to the bus stop, or stopping everywhere to get and drop passengers. By trying to load up the vehicle as much as possible the people is transported like sardines in a can, as if there were no other vehicle available, but judging by the traffic in the streets, the passengers try to board the first Agkutan Kota that reach the bus stop. Just behind it, go a couple of buses empty. It is the same in the case of telecoms: Everyone wants to make as much money overloading their systems. In the mobile business because we –the users- can terrify operators with the word: churn. They hate high churn rates. So they strive to keep us satisfied with a good coverage and no blocking access to the services.