First Fibre-To-The-Home strategy in Africa

It is a sad day when one realizes that Algeria will have FTTH before we do.

Algeria.
 
Algerie Telecom recently saw off SNO Lacom which retired hurt, saying that the incumbent had been given undue advantageous in the competition between the two companies.
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Well a lack of competition might mean that prices don't come down...
 
But soon we'll have the added choice of mediocre Double-play CDMA service - then the worm will turn . . . . :rolleyes:

We've been upstaged by Algeria.
 
It was all going well until the price of Fibre in the US was mentioned. Average price per what? Per-month as is normal? Or more likely per year in which case the figures are $62 per month. This still seems alarmist. A simple check for Verizon's FOiS product shows a price of $39 per month. How is this more expensive than cable (Comcast) at $42 per month?

And then there's the issue of "fibre in the developing world context". Another unresearched thumbsuck. Large parts of Telkom's next-gen network are already fibre and in newly built high-density areas (like Westlake Business Park in Cape Town) the entire area is already fibre to the premises. My accountant couldn't even get ADSL because his office was only connected by fibre and Telkom has no fibre-modem products yet. So, to answer your question: if Telkom is connecting some areas as fibre only then the price should be the same as ADSL. After all, it's the bandwidth that bites you in the end.

Did any research go into this article?
 
brendon9x: The costs they quoted are for installation. That includes cabling, digging and all supporting infrastructure. Cost per month is an entirely different story.
 
Nocturnity said:
brendon9x: The costs they quoted are for installation. That includes cabling, digging and all supporting infrastructure. Cost per month is an entirely different story.
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Still wrong. Installation is mostly free (again, check Verizon; they're typical).

Perhaps the article should have said:

"In areas that support fibre in the US, it is often cheaper than conventional alternatives like cable with installation often thrown in for free with a one year contract. There is at least one person who paid $3,500 for installation, but they almost certainly lived on their own tropical island and had to pay for their own undersea cable.

What is extremely hard to estimate is how much lower these figures can be taken in a developing world context. It's hard to imagine because cheaper than free is hard to imagine, especially considering there isn't a developing country on the planet that could compete with the cost-efficiencies of the massive US market. i.e. It will cost more, but this isn't really news to anyone who's been coma-free for the last five years".
 
Not installation for the client... Installation costs for the Telecoms company I'm guessing, and they definitely don't get that for free.
 
ok so when can they install a fibre link to my home?
 
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