Broadband strategies ‘critical'

The development of broadband strategies by cities is critical to the development of a competitive telecoms environment, says deputy communications minister Roy Padayachie.
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This is useless if the government has no broadband policy. All other countries have a broadband policy defined by the government. Why is our DOC so lazy to not clearly define a master broadband policy, which in turn the cities can then use to further define their own.

Come on ICASA and DOC - we need YOU to come up with guidance.
 
Surely the Department of Communications is responsible for drafting of legislation and policy and ICASA to regulate those policies? Pity we're not seeing any of that at all.
 
Ahhh I see Roy has managed to get his breath back for some more lip service.
What Roy is not saying is that all these new networks will ultimately still be reliant on Telkom and their horrendously inflated prices.

Cart before the horse, arse about face, whatever, they don’t seem to be addressing the fundamental issue of Telkom/Saix's inflated unrealistic pricing structure.

Address that, and the broadband penetration will address itself.
This has already been proven locally with the slight reductions a while back resulting in a dramatic increase in ADSL subscribtion (by SA std's).

Our goverments broadband policy (if they even have one), comes in a distant second to Telkoms protection.
 
If I had R1 for every time I've heard talk about how we need cheaper services from the government, I'd be a millionaire.

If I had R1 for every time the government or ICASA actually took action I'd have R0.00.
 
Since we have no broadband policy, why don't we write one for Poison Ivy. She might sign it without reading it and we could have things going our way for a change.

Hang Telkom high!
 
Blah blah, Roy, blah blah yak blah yak yak blah.
Grow some balls and stop with the talk.
 
ROFL The report is spot on:

"Speaking at the BMI-TechKnowledge Digital Cities Forum in Midrand this morning..."

That seems to be the qualification you need to be in Government... Be able to speak.
 
http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/?show=76948

“Cities will be able to lower their telecoms expenditure, increase access to telecoms services, leverage their buying power in negotiating prices from service providers and increase penetration and universal services.”

However, he cautioned that there exist legislative and regulatory implications and hindrances to the digitisation of cities, which, Padayachie said, must be addressed by the regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa.
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Does the regulator know this is its responsiblity?
To me ICASA seem to be a bunch of academics who would rather not act in fear of the legal implications of their actions.
 
MFour said:
ROFL The report is spot on:

"Speaking at the BMI-TechKnowledge Digital Cities Forum in Midrand this morning..."

That seems to be the qualification you need to be in Government... Be able to speak.
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I agree but also diagree, you forgot to mention " be able to speak cr@p ie talk ****, lie, distort the issue, mislead and bluff the consumer.
 
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