China goes from 6.5 to 13 million ADSL lines in ..

... one year.

Telkom = 20K lines in two years.

My, my I wonder if the pricing could have anything to do with it? [^]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3699820.stm

<i>
The massive growth in China has partly been down to the growing community of online gamers, but also because the authorities have pushed towards using broadband in education.

"Video over DSL is a very big hit and the vast majority is local content for entertainment and education," said Mr Greggains.

"Another thing which is big is interactive learning, group learning where kids will get together and do homework jointly using the internet."

But like many countries, explained Mr Greggains, China believes ubiquitous high-speed net access will drive the economy.</i>

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well they have a population of 1bil and we 40mil 25 times less so telkom should be installing 240000 lines a year to keep up with chinese ....

just goes to show the underperformance of Telkom! Let them BURN!!!!

### What we need in South Africa is cheap 24/7, always on Internet for under R300 a month. ###