It is confirmed. The court hearing for the CBNSat case has now been fixed for 1st August 2006 and according to reports the postponement was due to a request from the Minister of Media who said that he wished to intervene in this matter. Given this post are the reports on this court case that were published in The Daily Mirror, The Island and The Daily News. All of them pretty much say the same thing.
So looks like the customers have to wait till August 1st, 2006 and we wonder what the Minister wants to come to court and say. Hopefully it is something good and we sincerely hope that this situation will end at the next hearing. There is no mention whatsoever regarding the Temporary License issue. Looks like even the Attorney General is not respected these days, provided the news item in The Sunday Leader was correct. Since no one denied it, we have to assume that it is correct.
Anyway it looks like we should continue sending letters to the authorities and specially requesting H.E. President Mahinda Rajapakse to intervene and give relief to the people who have invested in purchasing this connection.
We hope that the Judges at the Supreme Court will see the injustice that has been done and issue a favourable verdict taking into consideration the plight of over 20,000 customers.
So looks like the customers have to wait till August 1st, 2006 and we wonder what the Minister wants to come to court and say. Hopefully it is something good and we sincerely hope that this situation will end at the next hearing. There is no mention whatsoever regarding the Temporary License issue. Looks like even the Attorney General is not respected these days, provided the news item in The Sunday Leader was correct. Since no one denied it, we have to assume that it is correct.
Anyway it looks like we should continue sending letters to the authorities and specially requesting H.E. President Mahinda Rajapakse to intervene and give relief to the people who have invested in purchasing this connection.
We hope that the Judges at the Supreme Court will see the injustice that has been done and issue a favourable verdict taking into consideration the plight of over 20,000 customers.
15 comments:
I think it's all gone back to the start where things have began.
Now the court says TRC and the Media Ministry to be heard on the August 1st.
This will be a never ending story till CBNSat shuts down. That's the ultimate goal of the people who started this whole scenario.
Even the subscribers too seem to be frustrated now. They even don't care about the money they spent. We can't be wasting our time on this we have 1000 of other things in life.
Interesting to see the page no. 25 of todays Daily news. TRC have put 2 notices with regard to 2 companies which violated the agreement with TRC. Namely the companies are 2 ISP's Lanka Global Online and Pan Lanka. According to the notice these 2 companies were not complying to the TRC regulations from 2002.
I hope TRC would have given notices to them in several occasions and now they have openly given them a time frame to comply with the regulations. Failing to do so TRC will initiate legal action against these companies and probably seal them preventing their business operations.
This is the way TRC has to act if anyone is commiting something against TRC regulations.
I beleive the same should apply to CBNSat and LBN if they have violated anything with regard to the licences they had.
But it was not the same for CBNSat and LBN.
WHY ????
WE ALL KNOW WHY NOW !!!!!!
I think nothing positive will happen on the August 1st. It will be posponed to August 15th. Then by August 15th they are going to ask another 2 months to ammend the Rupavahini Corporation Act. So the final decision will be postponed to End of September or in the month of October.
By that time it's almost 4 months since the shutdown of CBNSat. I really don't know whether the company can survive that long without an income and with operational costs like salaries !!
I also beleive Mrs. Shirani Bandaranayake will do the justice to the subscribers. She is a strong and unbiased person.
Yes ! Dude !! I'm bit discouraged about the whole thing. But our fight for justice will go on !!!
Don't think i'm negative. But i'm starting to see it moderately. How much hope we had right from the start from the time CBNSat sealed.
We thought at every court hearing that the situation will turn to good. But it never happened so to this date. So now I have a clear understanding that this will be further carried on by the interested parties till their goals achieved.
I think the government doesn't care about us all. It may be bitter to think it that way. But I beleive that they will never ever do anything favourable to the consumers.
Great comment Dude.
I think the subscribers of CBNSat is fedup now. We do not see the massive participation on this blog as before.
People have started to realise that no point in spending any time on this. This is not a peoples government. Our rulers do not listen to the grievances of the citizens. They listen only to "Terrorists" !
If you are a terrorist and say that you want CBNSat back the government will restart the service immediately.
OTHERWISE NOT !!!!
Not it's also clear to us that CBNSat does not have any link with LTTE. If they have they could even operate without any licence or approval. The government is showing their dedication to peace by facilitating anything to LTTE !!!
He acted like he has given these centres from his own pocket. According to the same conversation ICTA have paid nearly 1 million for each centre only for VSAT Internet connectivity which electrotech provided. You can imagine the amount he earned through this deal.
If he says that these people in villages are deprived of information and should be given the same facilities as colombo I agree.
So aren't they allowed to watch discovery, NGC and History channel and educate themselves. Why can't they get access to quality english language programms rather than cheap hindi teledramas which are telecasted to those areas free to air by local channels and the picture quality is very poor.
Why can't the local tv channels like rupavahini, itn and swarnavahini, derana transmit using CBNSat platform to deliver a crystal clear picture to them.
CBNSat was doing this for a year. 1000's of Sri Lankans who live in very remote locations were enjoying clear pictures on their TV's for the very first time thanks to CBNSat. Not only the foriegn educational channels like discovery & NGC but local channels too.
WHO STOPPED IT BY BRINGING IN FALSE ALLEGATIONS ?????
IS IT THIS SAME MAN WHO BOASTS ABOUT HIS TECHNOLOGY ?????
IS HE THE ONLY CAPABLE SRI LANKAN IN DOING SO ?????????
DO WE HAVE TO GET CLOSER TO TOP POLITICIANS TO SHOW OUR TALENTS ???
Here's some comments on Abey from
http://www.lirneasia.net/
"Sri Lanka Nanesala vs. VGK on Jul 20th, 2006 at 8:32 am
I normally do not watch TV. However yesterday, somebody SMSed me to watch a certain programme. I did not know how much I have missed, but when I put it on somebody unknown to me was talking about VGKs and Nanesalas.
At the end of the programme I learnt it was Mr. Abeywardena whose firm Electrotecks have provided VSAT facilities to the Nanesalas.
These are some of the things he said.
1. VGK model was an attempt of the World Bank to destroy the local cultural values. I (Mr. A) have been able to change this VGK model to Nanesala, which is useful for the country.
2. Because of Nanesalas now the Internet speed in villages is 100 times higher than what it is in Colombo, so soon people will be visiting villages to access Internet.
3. Unlike VGKs, Nanesalas promote Sinhalese Buddhist values. That is why we have decided to have Nanesalas in temples. (He gave a long list of the names of the temples.)
4. It was because of Nanesala programme President Rajapakse won the Presidential Election.
5. In the VGK model, the plan was to bring the ‘Global Village’ to ‘our villages’. However, in the Nanesala model, the plan is to do the opposite., i.e. to take ‘our villages’ to the ‘Global Village’
6. Eighty percent of the Sri Lankans live in villages. The intelligence level of all Sri Lankans is same. Therefore eighty percent of the talent in Sri Lanka is in villages.
7. The future plan is to expand the Nanesala programme to another 10,000 or 20,000. However, we do not want World Bank aid for that. We do it on our own, as Sri Lankans are rich enough (or capable enough – the exact word he used was ‘pohosath’) to do that.
I just wish to record these without comments.
I guess another episode of the same programme will be telecast next week, on the same day.
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"Sri Lanka Techie Guy on Jun 29th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
Please tell me whether to laugh or cry.
Let us recap what we read in the above posts.
There is a Nanesala somewhere in an outstation. The place is not given. Let us assume it to be at Hambantota.
This Nanesala has two PCs.
Let us assume somebody uses this Nanesala to access e-government services from GOSL. (That is one key objectives of setting up Nanesalas. Am I correct?)
The data travel from Hambantota to a satellite in the geo synchronous orbit (35K km above) then comes down to Electrotek’s Station in Colombo (another 35K km down) then goes back up again (another 35K km added) to satellite and down (add 35K km) to UK or Malta. Everything together 140K. (for double hop)
Then the same data has to come from UK/Malta to a server in Colombo. I do not know the exact distance. Let us say 100k km.
This is one way only.
The response from Colombo server will travel alone the same route. That will be another 240k.
So even for a simple request the data has to travel nearly 500,000 kms! (One third around the globe, if I am not mistaken) This is not a joke.
I do not know the user has ever used this Nanesala to access any e-government services. If so, he would have seen a looooooooooooooooooooong delay. The session might have probably expired before he got a response. (So no wonder why nobody uses those PCs)
In reality, the distance between Colombo and Hambantota might be around 300 km. So the data has traveled more than 1,500 times long distance unnecessarily, creating a looooooooooooooooooooong delay a user might not tolerate.
Dont we have any other more practical way to connect point A to point B?
Will anyone use e-government services under these conditions?
This is only one side.
Anybody has an idea how much we pay for the transaction described above?
If I remember correctly Electrotek is charging LRK 1 million per annum per Nanesala for providing these satellite links. That is Rs. 40,000 per PC per month in this Nanesala.
The above description explains why the cost is so high. Electrotek has to pay for an operator in UK/Malta, in addition to its own operational costs.
The funniest trouble is ICTA goes through such an expensive and complicated process to provide Internet access to this Nanesala, and (according to the user) nobody uses it! They used the PCs to play computer games.
Am I supposed to laugh or cry?
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Mr. TVLanka speaks as if he invented all the technologies he uses and gave them free of charge to the srilankan society out of pure goodwill. He didn’t do shit.
And now it seems that there is nothing to watch on local television too. ETV and ART only shows news.I feel sad for them as they will now have to change their whole business model (or shut down) according to a dumbass act the irresponsible govt created to please a group of ass lickers.
I am a Sinhala Buddhist and Buddhism never instructs to steal from one and then use that money to please another. Nor does Buddhism instructs to help under cutters who'd go to the extremes of foul tactics for their personal gain. Do you believe in Buddhism Mr. Rajapakse?
Obviously you don’t (coz if you are a true Buddhist, you wouldn't have turned a blind eye to injustice) . You have no religion. You have no honor. You have no dignity. 5 million Srilankans believed in you. You flushed their beliefs down the toilet.
Hope supreme court nails the whiny dogs. And I still believe in lord Buddha. I still believe CBNsat will be back.
Guys who travel along Galle Road, please observe building rooftops at Wellawatta area(land side). Yesterday I noticed that (correct me if I'm wrong) most of CBN dishes are now pointed towards South East and angled around 60 -75 degrees. I think SHITNET guy or some other guy is giving new connections for CBN. If I'm correct we are in deep shit unless justice is being done quickly.
The CBNSat dish could be used with a FTA receiver to receive free channels. May be people have bought FTA receivers and watching free indian content from NSS 6 satellite which is in the angle bank dude mentioned.
I also do the same. From day before yesterday DW-TV is also coming free from this direction. The other valuable channels are Headlines Today, Zee Music, MH1 and Star Utsav. All the hindi crap is on Star Utsav free!!! (The ones which the government is trying to ban)
For your information receiver is only Rs. 5750/= in pettah.
I THINK THE NEW TAXING SYSTEM APPLIES TO THE FORIEGN ADVERTISEMENTS INCLUDING THE TELESEEN ADS. THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO PAY RS. 1 MILLION FOR 1 YEAR FOR AN AD. ALL THE CHANNELS HAVE STOPPED TRANSMITTING THESE ADS FRM THE 16TH.
BUT I'VE SEEN YESTERDAY OUR FRIEND MR. TV LANKA IS BROADCASTING THESE ADS. I THINK HE IS ABOVE ALL !!!
Today is TRC's deadline for satellite tv licence applications. How long will they take to issue the licences?
I think they took years to issue CDMA licences.
All small cable Tv operations ( unauthorised) in Col- 11, 13 ,14 & 15. has been sealed last night.
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