Just as Sentech is ruled - not by the low end employees - but by those at the top, IBurst follows the same structure. So its important to know what those at the top, think - if one want to get a sense of what the future holds..
I've noticed a lot of hopeful chatter, and loud pronouncements on forum about 'what Iburst will/might do' - as well as what they supposedly WON'T do, because 'it would be too stupid'
After I met with various department heads of IBurst, the following prevailing attitudes emerged as being part of their actual thinking at the top of IBurst. This is what I saw, or was told directly:
They consider 3 gigs of download to be a LOT of data, and quite sufficient.
(The idea that 15 - 20 or more gigs a month downloading, was a norm, was unacceptable and apparently incomprehensible to them.)
They believe that the 'mobility' factor of their product, is the biggest 'sell' for their product.
While they're aware of this forum, they dismiss the people on myadsl as being just a 'minority' (they used that word specifically)- and not of relevance to the market or their product.
They also appeared to be unaware that any of their users/employees are posting on this forum, and also, they made it clear that they didn't pay much attention to this forum.
Their market would - according to them - appear to be the casual user, not the power downloaders, who they clearly percieve as 'abusers'.
And one little anecdotal gem that emerged, apart from the interesting fact that IBurst and Sentech have been holding meetings, was that Sentech had discovered that a sizeable portion of their own bandwidth, was being used up by Sentech employees.
(Any anonymous Sentech employees want to confirm or deny this?)
I've noticed a lot of hopeful chatter, and loud pronouncements on forum about 'what Iburst will/might do' - as well as what they supposedly WON'T do, because 'it would be too stupid'
After I met with various department heads of IBurst, the following prevailing attitudes emerged as being part of their actual thinking at the top of IBurst. This is what I saw, or was told directly:
They consider 3 gigs of download to be a LOT of data, and quite sufficient.
(The idea that 15 - 20 or more gigs a month downloading, was a norm, was unacceptable and apparently incomprehensible to them.)
They believe that the 'mobility' factor of their product, is the biggest 'sell' for their product.
While they're aware of this forum, they dismiss the people on myadsl as being just a 'minority' (they used that word specifically)- and not of relevance to the market or their product.
They also appeared to be unaware that any of their users/employees are posting on this forum, and also, they made it clear that they didn't pay much attention to this forum.
Their market would - according to them - appear to be the casual user, not the power downloaders, who they clearly percieve as 'abusers'.
And one little anecdotal gem that emerged, apart from the interesting fact that IBurst and Sentech have been holding meetings, was that Sentech had discovered that a sizeable portion of their own bandwidth, was being used up by Sentech employees.
(Any anonymous Sentech employees want to confirm or deny this?)
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