Friday, August 17, 2001

I am constantly surrounded with people that have a deep desire to communicate... all ways smsing each other, loved ones. Then when i think about it further... that is what the telecos want you to do. They try to supply a service to a market that has a demand for it and charge appropiately for it.

After taking telecommunications as a subject i can see how much there is to profit from it.... but come on... at least now i'm not an idiot... we pay good money to make use of the service.... alot of the current service providers don't get it... it's all about getting the market share... but that's how far it goes... they try to reduce the price to lure customers... but they don't improve on service quality.... what's the point of having a phone if all the lines are busy when you want to make a call? or if it is absolutely critical to reach somebody but jee... "the number is currently unavailable...".. man if the government didn't keep an eye on the market... foreigners would dominate...

From there... the extreme reduction of car import duties from 130 odd % to just about 30 + % would cause the local car manufacturers to shut down... they are not even trying to be competitive... a perdana V6 cost about 100k, a new corolla altis costs about 140k, and more than half of the price of the imported car goes to the government... if you half it.. who would buy the perdana? a kancil cost about 30 k, a kia sephia cost about 60 k? after the opening of the market? how much must perodua sell the car to remain competitive? oh i just found out that import duties grows exponentially for cars with bigger engine capacities..

well i have my eyes aimed at an evo7 or bm3 recon... wouldn't it be sweet then?("in a galaxy far far..... way far away")

Thought of the day:
"There are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going"

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