Comments: 'Similar Speedy experience'

Dec. 31, p. 8

I have had a similar experience with Speedy as Michael Johnsey (The Jakarta Post, Dec. 26) and I know many others who are not wholly satisfied.
Speedy’s service is truly unsatisfactory. The name itself almost constitutes a deliberate misrepresentation. The connection is extremely slow and unreliable. I have given up calling their help line, it gets me nowhere and it is really frustrating.
The representatives are polite enough, but the support ends there. In Indonesia, we pay a very high price for an Internet service that lags far behind most of the world. (By Denni Hooping, Jakarta)

 
Your comments:

An adequate Internet service will create two very big problems for RI. Firstly it will provide a level playing field for education. Students and educators will have equal access to information and will learn to participate in the modern world.

Secondly it will provide the common people a cheap and independent source of information about their world and will cause them to rethink their status as underpaid ignorant wage-slaves.

Both are very bad for the current crony-business model, though great if RI is to realize its awesome potential as a world leader like Brazil. Depends which century we want to live in.

J Smith
Surabaya