John Linton ....or at least some semblance of it.
I will get the flight back to Australia this evening but have a 'free' day to spend as I choose in Bangkok first. I started it well by getting up very late and then having a leisurely breakfast watching the morning river traffic on the terrace in temperatures that were very mild for Bangkok - lowish 20s I would think. As I am a very poor planner of my own spare time I haven't arranged to do anything specific so I will undoubtedly fritter the day away doing very little. Not being a fan of temple tours or tourist activities in general I will confine my excursions to a walk along the river on the recommended tourist route if my map reading skills are good enough to locate it and, as Annette is not with me which would make it impossible, have lunch at the highly recommended market at the return point of the 'trail'....assuming I find it in the first place.
Finding something sensible to do while eating by yourself (or worse drinking by yourself in some bar) has always defeated me even though I have traveled a lot over the past decades and found myself in that situation more times than I would have liked. Reading a book or newspaper is possible but not pleasant and, depending on the size and 'dressing' of the actual table, quite often logistically difficult to the point of practical impossibility. So I have done a lot of thinking over the past week which has mainly been about Exetel and where we are today and where we might be going over the coming months.
The last seven years have been very, very difficult for a start up company and particularly for me personally. When I was doing my part of the planning for this year in late November and throughout December it kept creeping in to my mind that did I really want to go through the hassle of managing a company in truly difficult times for yet another year? The short answer was - no. But then, always being optimistic, I came to the conclusion that no year could come close to being as truly awful as 2010 was (or even 2009 for that matter) and it would be a waste of so many people's incredibly hard work over the past seven years to not see out the rest of the journey and see if we can make some positive contribution to data communications in Australia. It's a small enough ambition to use up a life time on.
It will be fascinating to work through the problems associated with growing a 'business' business that is larger than the residential business it has taken seven years to create and see how close to the four years we estimate that will take as we reach the two year mile stone in two weeks or so's time. Will all the experts who have told me to my face, or to other people 'behind my back' that trying to sell to Australian businesses from Sri Lanka is "insane" along with the rest of the concepts that we are trying to put in place be proven correct? I suppose that, when all is said and done, remains the motivation.....trying to do very, very difficult things in the face of 100% scepticism if not outright derision.
Maybe it is not possible...it just doesn't look that way to me....at least it doesn't at this moment in time. All business either succeeds or fails on one premise and one premise only and if you are building a business built on meeting the various requirements of that premise then, if you have enough courage, skills and fortitude, you must, eventually, be successful. Giving up when things get very, very tough is not an option.....even for the more timorous.
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PS: Nice to see that TPG continue to employ sleazebags with no ethics and no knowledge. Somehow I doubt that Ms Wardlaw has any future in any sort of profession other than the oldest one. What it does do is confirm the problem of ripping off your customers and then having to go back to them trying to keep some revenue by having to meet the pricing of competitors who don't rip off customers and don't lie about their competitors services capabilities and costs. What a total jerk that woman must be.
Hi XXXX
I have approval to meet this price, however, our product manager is
familiar with Exetel’s offering and he believes that the offer includes a data
cap of 500GB and not unlimited internet. He also advised that the lines for
this Exetel service are not included and that Exetel expect the customer to pay
and supply the lines so that they can deliver this service, and this of course,
is at an additional cost.
TPG’s EFM service offering includes the lines. We are prepared to
meet the price with the following inclusions:
- TPG EFM (UP TO 10Mb/10Mb*) 8 wire service
- ULL Lines included (subject to suitable lines
available)
- 500GB Data Cap per month, $1.00 per GB excess data
- Note: Jamboree Heights exchange has been classed as an
‘Amber Zone’ meaning Telstra deem part of this area to be unsafe and this
may cause delays in installing this service. We will not know exactly how
long the wait will be until we place the order
*EFM service can be supplied to
locations up to 3km’s. The established speed will depend on the quality of the
cable and infrastructure, and the distance from the exchange. Your location is
approximately 2.6km, therefore we are proposing an 8 wire service to provide a
service of 10Mb/10Mb, or close to.
If you wish to go ahead, please let me know asap so that I can have
this pricing validated. I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,