I'm always surprised at how quickly my phone runs out of credit. I shouldn't be; I know how much AMC charge. But somehow I still can't get used to the extortionate costs of using a mobile phone here.So it comes as no surprise that AMC increased their profits by more than 20% last year to nearly EUR 50 million.It was also no surprise that the company has been fined for its anti-competitive practices, and that the Telecommunications Authority in Albania has declared that both AMC and Vodafone are 'non-competing companies'.Let's hope that the government has the courage to do something about these companies who are ripping off me, Albanian citizens and the whole country.
And now the end is near and so i face nanananana... Never did like that crappy song. But it's true nevertheless. Tomorrow in the wee hours of the morning we will be heading for the airport for the last time. I suppose it was too much to expect that I could have kept this going while getting ready to leave. So apologies for the lack of postings over the last weeks. This is post number 380 something so I suppose one post every two days is not a bad average. There were probably 380 more in my head or scribbled down on scraps of paper, but many of them are perhaps best left there. I suppose I should be penning - or typing - my final thoughts and reflections on two years in Tirana, but right now I don't have any. Maybe in a month or two though I might come back with something. Thanks to all of you who have read this blog - especially those of you who have become regulars. Thanks also for linking and thanks to all who left comments. As for the other stars of the blog, Bella now has h...
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What about Skype?
Regarding government, I partly agree with you. Bad government is the problem. Good government would be the solution.
The key issue is when government's regulate, whose interests are served? Their own, the interests of their paymasters in the business community, or the interests of consumers?
Corrupt governments tend to regulate in their own interests, unfortunately western governments regulate far too much in the interests of business - because businesses give them money, which is just another form of corruption.