Broadband penetration: South Africa has a lot of catching up to do

"Broadband penetration"

Never before has there been such an apt title...
 
The country’s fixed line broadband penetration rate of 1.4% is however significantly worse than the OECD’s 24.9%, a problem which the Department of Communications plans to solve through Local Loop Unbundling (LLU).
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If the country's fixed line penetration rate is 1.4%, surely it is reasonable to assume that this is due to a significant lack of fixed lines. How on earth then is LLU going to solve anything? We don't need to unbundle local loop, we simply need much MORE of it.
 
Hey this is not my problem. Go speak to Telkom about it.
 
6 years and waiting. Perhaps another 2 zillion press reports will get them off their fat, overpaid behinds.
 
Wireless is the answer in South Africa. ICASA must wake up. We have to invest more in smaller community based WISP. Fibre to the home will allow smaller ISP's to offer good quality services.
 
F111 said:
Wireless is the answer in South Africa. ICASA must wake up. We have to invest more in smaller community based WISP. Fibre to the home will allow smaller ISP's to offer good quality services.
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This unfortunately will not allow these fatcats to make enough money to spend on their lavish lifestyles. I don't think that this in an option in SA in the near future.
 
That's what happens when you charge the earth for a crappy entry level broadband package and phone.
 
F111 said:
Wireless is the answer in South Africa. ICASA must wake up. We have to invest more in smaller community based WISP. Fibre to the home will allow smaller ISP's to offer good quality services.
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Truth, if only ik4k4 didn't fudge up the WiMAX spectrum auction there could've been some promising results.
 
many countries such Australia, the UK and the United States have aggressive projects to boost fibre connectivity.
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While in sunny SA we have a fibre to the home penetration rate of (give or take a few extremely expensive business connections) ****ALL.

But, never fear, the government plans to give everyone access to blistering mind-numbingly fast 256Kbps connections by 2020. :D
 
TJ99 said:
While in sunny SA we have a fibre to the home penetration rate of (give or take a few extremely expensive business connections) ****ALL.

But, never fear, the government plans to give everyone access to blistering mind-numbingly fast 256Kbps connections by 2020. :D
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Now there's something to look forward too. South Africa is so "cutting edge" it's scary. Our government and DoC really know how to take charge and lead SA into the future, don't they? :(
 
TJ99 said:
But, never fear, the government plans to give everyone access to blistering mind-numbingly fast 256Kbps connections by 2020. :D
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I'd actually be realliy impressed if they pulled that one off....

If we go by a rough measure of 'all tax payers should have broadband', we need less than 10% of the country to get connected. We're not far off.

To drag the peasants along with us, we might as well give them 128k each.

Otherwise, they'll really F.uck up my internet experience...
 
Well there are few things that the Government can do.

1. Make ADSL Cheaper
2. Get T1 or T2 Fiber Lines - CHEAP
2. Get TRUE 1 MB and 2 MB Connections not this 440 KB/S = 4096
3. Get someone in Government who knows how to push to get things done and not do it is 10 years from now.

At the rate we are going we will always be at the bottom of the list. :(
 
MFour said:
Our government and DoC really know how to take charge and lead SA into the future, don't they? :(
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What grinds my gears even more than that is when these flippen clowns advertise their "world class" (please, they're barely even third-world class) networks, knowing full well that "average" South Africans are just about ignorant enough to believe it.
 
TJ99 said:
What grinds my gears even more than that is when these flippen clowns advertise their "world class" (please, they're barely even third-world class) networks, knowing full well that "average" South Africans are just about ignorant enough to believe it.
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Exactly yes.
 
If only we had ISP's who would lay down their own networks to people's homes. But instead of trying to help the consumer, they are sitting back, waiting for LLU.
 
TJ99 said:
What grinds my gears even more than that is when these flippen clowns advertise their "world class" (please, they're barely even third-world class) networks, knowing full well that "average" South Africans are just about ignorant enough to believe it.
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But what else can the average south african do? They have no choice. They view an advertisement of the network, they know it is probably BS, but what else can they do? We have no choice, that is the problem. Our crappy network, is our only network(advertised).

I mean, what do you do different than the average south african? Perhaps some reading this might learn something.
 
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