Cable and Wireless partners with Reliance to set up datacenters in

Wed Nov 17 15:13:10 UTC 2004

At 11:34 PM 11/16/2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

>Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>
>>reference discussions about blocking VOIP from earlier this week (last
>>week?) gov'ts sometimes are made to put in place dumb laws that can not be
>>enforced in order to intimidate people and try to maintain the business of
>>legacy/incumbent carriers :(
>
>C&W being a legacy / incumbent carrier in several countries themselves, it 
>will be interesting to see how they cope with this :)

In Panama, they are the incumbent being "protected" by the ban on VOIP.

Was anyone truly surprised C&W failed in the US marketplace? They seem only 
able to make money when they're the government-sanctioned monopoly. It'll 
be interesting to see if they can handle competition in India any better 
than they did in the US. 