Major (rtd) Dhadho Gaddae Godhana

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 71 to 80 of 203.

• 17 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the mobile operators cannot confine your personal phone to manual mode because the services are open to everybody to use. So, it is up to the client or the person who wishes to use the services to be able to operate the handset in a manner that he believes is--- view
• 17 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to explain here. It is an arrangement within the East African region for members of these regions to be able to access services whenever they are in any of those countries. It is part of the inter- Ministerial arrangements within the regions. view
• 17 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I quite understand what the Chair and the hon. Members are talking about. The service provider cannot lock your phone to manual mode. It is your responsibility as a user to lock your phone to manual mode immediately you see signal that you are accessing another network. But if you leave it on automatic mode then you accept that network and you will be billed as a roaming service. The service provider would not be able to lock to the boundary. view
• 17 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the mobile phone service provider cannot go along the common border. It is not possible. That is why I am giving a simple advice that when the pop-up text comes up, you should switch to manual mode to avoid being on roaming tariff. That is the only solution that we can give so far. view
• 17 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have just said that it is not possible now to compensate people who have subscribed to a roaming service. They have subscribed to a rooming service and that money has already been submitted to the--- view
• 17 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not wish to be informed. view
• 17 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Okay, I will accede to the information. view
• 17 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am the person who goes for the meetings he is talking about. These are meetings between the Government Ministries and not between the Ministry of Information and Communications and Safaricom. Safaricom, Airtel and Airtel Uganda are service providers. Once the charges are effected, they are submitted to a service provider and not to my Ministry. So, when they have already offered services and the billing has been done, it is not possible for us to retrieve the money and bring it back to the clients. view
• 17 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, even in Uganda and Tanzania, the citizens there who subscribe to roaming services are also charged international rates and the money is paid to the network that the clients have subscribed to. view
• 17 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was recently in Tanzania and it happened to me. I forgot to change to the manual mode and I, therefore, paid an extra charge. He is talking about machines. view