Thursday, February 12, 2004

I got up, got ready, took off.

I headed up to my mates place, jumped in the car, we drove down to the city, found a park near the PowerTel building.

We went in, Qi was still listed on the business directory, I thought they'd gone bust.

We were early, so we had time. We went up to level 14, and into the office I used to work in. I thought I saw a couple of the technical guys I used to work with. Some woman asked if she could help us, I told her I used to work there, and was anyone I used to work with available.

She called over one of the guys, we went into the meeting room.

He was the last guy left from the original staff back when I worked there, he'd put in his resignation, and was leaving tomorrow.

The guy I worked for had left 2 weeks ago, and the other technical guy left a year ago.

I chatted to him for a few minutes, and then we left, and went to our proper meeting in the building.

It turns out that my friend had signed contracts worth thousands of dollars a month, and they're not interested in terminating the contracts.

I don't know what will happen after this, we're going to find out about transferring our services there, and consolodating things, but it might not work.

We finished up there, went to see the guy who owns the Internet Cafe we provide data to (and his translator) and tried to explain the situation.

He wanted a discount on his access, which was fair enough, he was getting 2.4mbit until recently, when it reduced to less than 1mbit, and for a couple of days it was 600kbit.

We told him we were researching other bandwidth solutions, and we were waiting on details.

We left there, came back up the coast, went to the Cafe. I then explained what was going on, and changes we'd need to make.

I went back to my mates place after that, we went for dinner, and then I came home.