[Mispa-management-l] agenda - Re: MMC Meeting proposal - 20 Dec 2019 - College of Medicint - 10am

Tayamika Jumbe tjumbe at nitel.mw
Wed Dec 18 10:32:11 CAT 2019 

Noted.

Tayamika

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Subject: [Mispa-management-l] agenda - Re: MMC Meeting proposal - 20 Dec 2019 - College of Medicint - 10am


MMC

Here below is the draft agenda for the MMC meeting, please review the agenda and send in your comments.

M I S P A
Malawi Internet Service Providers Association http://www.mispa.org.mw

MISPA MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

MISPA Management Committee Meeting
Date: 		20 December 2019
Time: 		1000 AM
Venue: 	College of Medicine ICT Boardroom, Blantyre.

Draft agenda

1.	Welcome remarks from Chairman.
2.	Quorum
3.	Agenda adoption
4.	Presentations from invited guests on interventions of their choice
    a.	AFRIMAX – Mr Abbas Kamar
    b.	Skyband – Mr Limbika Kanjadza
    c.	Airtel – Mr Wakisa Kaluwa
5.	Minutes of the last meetings of 30 May 2019 and of 03 September 2019
6.	Matters arising from the minutes
7.	Review of IPv6 Training Workshop of 09-13 September 2019
8.	MIX room rehabilitation – progress 
9.	GGC update and performance: TNM
    a.	configuration – uptime – traffic – participants – payments – issues 
10.	Akamai update and performance: TNM
    a.	configuration – uptime – traffic – participants – payments – issues 
11.	Membership renewals and payment for MISPA membership fees
12.	Salary payment for MISPA Technician
13.	Call for IXP in Lilongwe such as from Malawi 2019 IGF and others
14.	Membership application from ESCOM – approval 
15.	AOB

Regards,

Paulos
======================================
Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
Malawi SDNP PC: http://www.sdnp.org.mw
NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD http://www.registrar.mw
Chair: MISPA http://www.mispa.org.mw


On 9 Dec 2019 at 11:31, Dr P Nyirenda wrote:

> MMC,
> MISPA,
> 
> It appears that there are a number of issues that have arisen on MISPA 
> and MIX that need the attention of the MISPA Management Committee and 
> here is one of them from AFRIMAX copied here below.
> 
> I would, therefore, like to propose a meeting of the MISPA Management 
> Committee on Friday, 20 December 2019, from 10am.
> 
> Please confirm if you will be available for such a meeting at College of Medicine in Blantyre.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Paulos
> ======================
> Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
> NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD
> http://www.registrar.mw
> Tel:  +265-(0)-882 089 166
> Cell: +265-(0)-888-824787
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> 
> 
> 
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> From:                         Kamar Abass <kamar.abass at afrimax.net>
> To:                            P Nyirenda <paulos at sdnp.org.mw> Copies 
> to:                  Prince Azubuike <princeazubuike at gmail.com>
> Subject:                     Afrimax Limited: Charges for Throughput 
> Access to Google and Akamai
>                                  Cache Date sent:                  
> Thu, 5 Dec 2019 10:14:30 +0000
> 
> 
> WITHOUT PREJUDICE
> 
> Dear Dr. Nyiranda,
> 
> We write, on behalf of Afrimax Limited, a MACRA-licensed ISP operating in Blantyre.
> In this connection, Afrimax is a member of MISPA and is presently connected to the MIX.
> In addition, Afrimax takes capacity from MISPA’s Google and Akamai caches.
> 
> The current commercial arrangements, for access to MISPA caches, are 
> for a flat fee of $35 (thirty-five US dollars) per Mbps for cached content.
> In addition, excise duty and VAT are applied, taking the total cash 
> cost of connectivity to these caches to almost $45 (forty-five US dollars) per Mbps.
> And this price is levied before we must face the exchange rate risk 
> applicable between MWK and USD rates.
> 
> The effect of this pricing is to prevent Internet data charges from 
> being reduced, even though average levels of customer usage are rising.
> The opportunity to provide customers with improved value for money 
> will enhance productivity, grow incomes and drive beneficial new investment.
> This empowerment and transformation opportunity, which is at the heart 
> of the global digital agenda, is therefore being undermined by artificially high prices for IP content.
> 
> And we say artificially high because we have been offered prices for 
> direct IP Transit, by TTCL, of Tanzania, that are as low as $40 per Mbps.
> And there prices are being offered for capacity commitments of no more than an STM-1.
> 
> With this alternative pricing level, there can be no justification for 
> cached capacity to be offered at around $45 (note that capacity payments to TTCL will attract no Excise duty or VAT).
> We would therefore ask for your assistance in urgently reviewing these 
> prices downwards, substantially, for the 2020 calendar year.
> In addition, we ask that we move collectively to pricing for cached 
> content in local currency: why should forex risk be passed to relatively small ISP who have no opportunity to earn Forex.
> Whereas Malawi’s major operators earn significant Forex from inbound 
> IDD calls, which outweigh Inbound IDD, so achieve positive net IDD revenues in Forex.
> This “surplus” can thus be applied to IP Transit prices by the major 
> operators in a way that ISP, who earn no Forex cannot
> 
> We discussed that this matter is to be discussed at MISPA’s December 
> 2019 Management Committee meeting.
> I should be pleased to attend this meeting, to represent the views in 
> person with industry colleagues.
> Kindly therefore extend an invitation to me, to this end.
> 
> In addition, please feel welcome to share these views with other 
> industry colleagues to garners support for their early implementation.
> With kind regards,
> KA
> 
> K. Abass
> Afrimax Limited
> www.afrimax.net
> hello at afrimax.net
> 01 831 706
> 
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