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<br />Seems from the ADSL tutorial that once again we are only starting to get the technologies the other countries are beginning to move away from.
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Could you please expand on this?
Thanks
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Yip, maybe I expressed myself to abbreviated.
In the generic term, ADSL, sure it's here to stay for some time to come. The comment was made 'tough-in-cheek' (forgot to put the little face behind it.[

]) It is just the time frame of the rollout and the time it took from its inception (+- 1994/95?) and the progress already made with VDSL and pure Fibre that would mature quicker than ADSL's rollout. Just look at the leaps and bounds progress made elsewhere in the world around the available bandwidth provided to the customer.
Don't get me wrong, it's great that we are getting ADSL. I think this country has a huge backlog in infrastructure due to a lot of historic political reason contributing to it. The last thing I want to get into is a political debate. We can't change the past, but we can learn from it and can shape the future. We should find synergies we we can to build.
I don't agree with everything Telkom does, maybe because of the lack of transparency and hence an opinion expressed less factual than theirs. It does look, from my point of view, that South Africans are not getting the best possible deal due to all the secrecy and limitation placed on an enabling technology - real sad.