Government wants to drastically reduce broadband cost

//mmmmm....should be less quotation marks around in that article
 
Less talk, more action please!

License LTE ASAP, get digital TV rolling and let the competition BEGIN...
 
While at the same time drastically increasing the cost of electricity, water, rates, etc.
 
MickeyD said:
straight from the horse's mouth! :p
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preferred end to speak from....

I am actually very heartened by the couple of lines of the speech which were relevant to SA
@buyeye: fixed costs are an issue but my view is that they are not as much of an issue as mobile data costs...
 
rpm said:
Government wants to drastically reduce broadband cost

Government wants to drastically reduce the cost of broadband through the introduction of more competition into the tightly regulated market says Communications Minister Dina Pule. Opening the ICT Indaba Africa Conference in Cape Town on Monday, Pule said most of*more
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Gee whiz, it's about time - we haven't heard a cabinet minister talk about reducing broadband costs for at least three months ... :)

This as the government interferes with the KT deal, which appeared to have a real potential for dropping costs.
 
Off topic a bit, but how can 42 million people be using mobile phones?? Our poulation is 50m, and in the last census we had about 30% of the population under the age of 14 (and we can expect about half of those to be below the age of 7).
Are we then saying that 100% of people in SA above the age of 7 has a mobile phone????
:confused:
 
Inevitability said:
Off topic a bit, but how can 42 million people be using mobile phones?? Our poulation is 50m, and in the last census we had about 30% of the population under the age of 14 (and we can expect about half of those to be below the age of 7).
Are we then saying that 100% of people in SA above the age of 7 has a mobile phone????
:confused:
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They're probably counting all activated SIM cards. Remember many people have more than one phone, there are all those cell modems, and lots of car tracking devices, alarms, prepaid electricity meters, etc, all on the cellphone networks.
 
rrh said:
Gee whiz, it's about time - we haven't heard a cabinet minister talk about reducing broadband costs for at least three months ... :)
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Didn't you know that they have this marked in their calendars? Every three months there's a note reminding them to blow some hot air about this. It's just a reminder to talk kak...that's where it ends. :p
 
Na I think, competition is not the solution here. case in point - Neotel, Cell C and Virgin mobile. They have helped but not fully.

I would rather approach it from a regulation perspective. Basically setting a maximum rate that the networks can charge for a given service e.g. R 10 for 100MB maximum. Other thing, if they moved their sorry slow asses on LTE, etc, then we could have a nice Open Access Network where everyone's costs come down. Its not entirely fair to expect the full saving to come from the network operator's side. I think its quite nice and convenient where one company builds the towers and so on and the various users get a stake in it. Its really that simple
 
We all know the solution, and we all know why it hasn't happened yet ..

Government has been protecting Telkom's monopoly despite calls to the contrary for how many years now?

Its like the joke of Zuma actively fighting corruption .. to get rid of corruption, you have to get rid of the corrupt .. not entrench them.
 
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