Telecoms competition arrives in numbers
How will you benefit from the 544 new IECNS licenses which have been granted?
Telecoms competition arrives in numbers
Telecoms competition arrives in numbers
How will you benefit from the 544 new IECNS licenses which have been granted?
sorry i fail to see any saving yet.Originally Posted by rpm
Telkom: "Resistance is futile, your money is ours!"
ICASA haven't even finished issuing all the licenses, give it a little bit of time.
This is very positive news though, despite the delays, which I'm afraid are expected from ICASA.
Well, the immediate effect will be that ISP's can connect to each other using Microwave or Infra-Red or just-plain-cable. This may seem like a small thing, but, previously it was not allowed, and previously they were forced to use teklom.
Within 3 months we should see a drop in latency figures as data routing becomes direct, and then we'll start to see money spent by ISP's on things like their own News servers and their own cache'ing and mirror environment. Perhaps one or two will get inventive and bring out locally based services for their customers that beat the crap out of youtube and DSTV, because using their own infrastructure to do this will now make it feasible.
good news on monday
i like stoke's reply
---quantumplation---
yup, giving you a little boostgood news on monday
i like stoke's reply
I like it...
Last edited by The_Librarian; 19-01-2009 at 07:22 AM.
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Finally a good news monday. I was gettin so used to waking up on a monday and reaching for the vaseline as I read the news.
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cool that we are getting local competition going... just international bandwidth will still be a problem.
If local bandwidth/hosting drops considerably, I'm sure many web sites / services will move back to our shores, thus the need for international will drop. Let hope something good comes from all of this.
Neotel releases NeoFlex today???
Nice point. I just hope it doesn't work like the food prices reliance on petrol prices.
You only get one chance to piss off a client. After that they are an ex client ...
“Viva la competition!” said Roeld Diedericks
Did Roelf change his name?
Telkom go google go!
This is really good news. As the Seacom deadline is nearing you will read more and more telscum propaganda about how the prices will not be falling, "because of the cost of infrastructure".
I mean, we have already read articles about how a leased line from Cape Town to Johannesburg is more expensive than a line from Johannesburg to London.
With the self providing law we can now look forward to the actual savings from Seacom filtering down to us, the consumers. Not what we would have had: Telscum pocketing the savings while inflating the cost for local links.
Go Altech!
+1 - makes sense... and if stoke is stoked, then so am Igood news on monday
i like stoke's reply
The best that can now happen is LLU. Then we have a LEVEL playing field.
While this is great news for everybody, we must also realise we're going to go into a bit of a Wild West environment for the next few years. And a lot of people will get burned.
As with any new environment that opens up, many new entrants will try and construct a service and will sell this successfully (at first), typically based on low pricing and promises of high levels of service (bandwidth / cap / latency).
So there will be flood of new offerings resulting in a surge of uptake. But many of the players will get their business models wrong, will not realise the complexities of running a network / ISP or the capital investment required.
Their service will suffer and eventually there will be a market shakeout ( in the next 3 to 5 years) with a small number of players left. And in the process a lot of consumers will get hurt as their SP's close down.
The above is just the reality of a new frontier opening up in a free market system and will definitely happen in this case. The one positive thing is that it will drive prices down for everybody.
So expect interesting times ahead.
i live for interesting times.
---quantumplation---
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