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TCC Expressions of Interest

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Posted by: Samiuela LV Taufa on July 23, 2007 3:02:40 PM

There have been a number of press advertisements regarding the proposed sale of shares in Tonga's larger Telecommunications business, TCC http://www.tcc.to. There are of course a lot of unanswered or untendered questions about the validity of holding shares in Tongan companies, as there is no liquid market for disposing of these shares and therefore brings to question whether one can really put a valuation of any shares.

This liquid market problem is the major problem banks have been having for years when people want to take out loans with their properties as security. Great, now the bank secures a $20,000 loan on a huge plot of land when only two or three people are likely to be interested in land that size, leading to banks having on their books sizeable amounts of property which they eventually have to let go to some enterprising person who snaps it up at less than the bank wants, but more than they've been getting.

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The TCC expressions of interest lead us to a little experiment(?) last week, when driving through Houmakelikao you get a face full of telephone cabling that's just hanging across the middle of the road.

I'm about to pick up my TCC activated mobile phone to call TCC to report the problem when I thought this would be a good time to gauge a few things about this TCC Expressions of Interest.

How interested have TCC made their domestic customers, to report problems with their phone lines. How interested is the TCC infrastructure in resolving bleeding problems.

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Monday morning and the cable has snapped, leaving one cable strewn across the road. Which, presumably means that either a TCC customer no longer has phone service, or they've been previously disconnected anyway, so no-one is interested in reporting the problem to TCC.

So, the cable that's supposed to be up high on the pole is now low enough that an enterprising 'hacker' can just take a machete to the whole thing and totally disconnect a lot more people. But I wonder if anyone will notice ?

Monday the 2nd week of the line being down, and the cable is still down. I guess, at least at Houmakelikao, there's less interest in TCC or is it the other way around ? TCC has less interest in Houmakelikao ?

Edit/Add End of 3rd Week (August 6th, 2007):

 

Cow visiting the telephone wires

Had the photo taken a week ago, during 3rd week, but never got the time to put it up. The cabling to this side of the photo hangs further down, to within a meter off the ground, but the kids didn't want to get out and pose with the cables (weird kids, weird dad)

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TCC Expressions of Interest Samiuela LV Taufa July 30, 2007 10:48 AM
[p]End of 2nd Week without any progress on the cables.[/p] [p]Interesting side note leading to this comment. There is a cow now feeding right around the pole, which means the cow actually has to slouch or duck a bit (or whatever you call it when cows need to walk under a cable.)[/p] [p] I wonder if "cow-damage" is one of those things you can write down for:[/p] [p] Cable Down, Cow-Damage.[/p] [p]I hope that the people who have lost their telephone cable are not TCC subscribers, otherwise the monthly bill's about set and you know current practise is to charge whether the service is working.[/p] [Modified by: Samiuela LV Taufa on July 30, 2007 10:49 AM]

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TCC Expressions of Interest Samiuela LV Taufa August 06, 2007 02:07 PM
[p]End of third week. [/p] [p]I hope they fix it before I lose interest in this thing.[/p]

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