Our third Podcast. Join the TTCS Regulars (Mike T, Nissan, Anil, Richard, Colin, Paul, Dev Anand and Peter) as we discuss the following topics:
* TSTT honouring its promise to provide rebates to GSM phone customers because of the crash and subsequent congestion (during the week Monday 11th July to Saturday 16th July) of the GSM cellular network.
* Anil was among three persons rewarded by TSTT for being a long term customer (longest, unbroken service) of their dial-up Internet access service, first offered by TSTT in August 1995
* Cost of Internet access in Trinidad and Tobago is greater than that in the US. Is this reasonable or not?
* Ways for visitors to Trinidad and Tobago to access the Internet
* "Cloning" of TDMA cellular phones. Peter related an examples where one of his phones was "cloned" and used to make several thousand dollars worth of calls. TSTT was very sympathetic about the unfortunate situation, promptly cancelled all charges, upgraded him to their GSM service and even gave him a "free" GSM phone.
* the delay by the Telecom Authority and the Ministry of Public Admin in granting cellular licenses to Digicel and Laqtel.
* the pros and cons of CDMA cellular phones
* Software Freedom Day (SFD) 2005: the TTCS, Trinidad and Tobago Linux Users Group (TTLUG) and FLOS Caribbean teamed up to have a two day event on the 10th and 11th of September 2005. Among the items talked about during the SFD event was the local software development of "Burrokeet", a "learning content management system", TTCS OSSWIN CD and the FLOS Caribbean organisation.
* Nissan doing a UWI Computing Society meeting on 29th September 2005 on open source software for Windows featuring the TTCS OSSWIN CD
* How to promote Open Source/"Free" Software so that it could gain more market share and acceptance. Several examples of OSS in use by local companies were mentioned.
* the use of shareware
* the problems of adware/spyware on PCs and the time/effort/money needed to solve these problems
* the popularity of Dell computers in Trinidad and Tobago
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