Dotcom's Mega to launch with mini call centre
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The new mega.co.nz will launch with 50 gigabytes of cloud storage for all comers and a global customer support line, but just 15 to 20 staff to handle calls.
Kim Dotcom has announced the 50GB allowance on Twitter, and Australian-based domain name registrar Instra has put up its hand as the new service's call centre. Instra's former CEO Tony Lentino has since taken up the same post at Mega.
Current Instra CEO Brian Clarkson told The Reg the company has signed up to deliver Mega's customer support from a call centre in the New Zealand city of Hamilton. Clarskon said the company has “15 to 20” customer service staff on its books. The team is “a mixture of part time and full time” workers.
“We have contingency plans to put more staff on,” he added. “We're going totally into the unknown. I think users will be tolerant of us launching a new service, but we cannot assess what the requirements will be.”
Clarkson's hope is that most inquiries come by email, as Instra has installed a customer service application tuned to handling email inquiries.
Keen to understand why Instra would work with Mega, given it's likely to be a magnet for legal trouble, Clarkson said he believes Kim Dotcom is “completely innocent” and a victim of “an injustice of the most enormous nature”. That hasn't stopped Instra engaging lawyers in Australia, New Zealand and the USA to get ready for the launch, but Clarkson did so happily as he feels working with Mega is a matter of principle.
“I accept there is a risk of collateral damage [from working with Kim Dotcom] but you have to defend what you know is right.” ®
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COMMENTS
Re: I'm not to sure...
Personally I think you can't trust ANYONE with your own data, and at least Mega are going to encrypt by default (unlike dropbox, etc) so their staff (and anyone working with them, sizing the hardware, disposing of old HDD, etc) can't easily access YOUR data.
So fine for sharing/syncing but like all of the other "cloud" services, plan for a sunny day and have your own backup copy!
Re: I'm not to sure...
If you trust any free public cloud service, you are an idiot.
Encrypt first, encrypt last, encrypt always.
Kim's offerings seem very usefull as data access
I think of services like this not as a back up but as a way to access data I didn't have on my laptop when I'm out and about.
Also, I never use cloud storage as back up, only as an additional source to retrieve my data from. Leaving my data to the cloud is a risk I don't take but as an extra source of access to my data it seems okay. I sure can use a 50Gb option like Kim is offering for that.
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