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JAYDEE

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Hi All Members of the forums

I'm looking to start a small private wireless content providing company. Having looked at both Sentech's and Iburst's business model, I believe they are completely missing the point of having their own wireless network. Why havent anyone of them even come close to bundling content or services via their very own networks. Surely this is a way around Helkom and a major trend in developed nations.

If anyone is interested in reinventing the wheel here in South Africa, give me a shout.:cool:
 
I have the same belief... but its a SA tradion for companies to milk the public. .. iBurst buys from UUNET .. so what 3 gigi cap ? (altho thats debatable whether anyone has ever been capped) they can also even afford to do viop and multimedia without breaking in to a sweat! ... but thats work! and alot of SA companies are scared of that.
 
JAYDEE, I believe you are seriously underestimating the technical challenges and amount of work involved. Good luck though.
 
You will need to invest couple of billion rands to compete against iburst and sentech IMHO.
 
The amount of work is not the problem. In fact several people have set up their own wireless network companies. The problem is:

IT IS ILLEGAL.

Sentech and WBS can do it because they actually have licenses. It is called multimedia licenses if I remember the wording of the telecommunications act correctly. That is what the whole debate about ISP self-providing is about. ISPs themselves cannot just start their own WISPs. Feel free to try and get a license - you will unfortunately fail IMHO.
 
JAYDEE - welcome to the forum.
There are many obstacles in doing something like this. Most of them being mentioned.
Cost
Technical Skills
Legislation/Law

I'm not sure how much research you have done into this.
I'm not sure where you are going with "content providing company" but do you not think that there are like minded people out there that are trying or have tried the same.

If the products, prices and service are good. There will be many people on this forum that will back you.

Good Luck you will need it.
 
I came across this company which is licensed and provides wireless connectivity.

What would the cost of a set up such as this be?
 
Whoopi. These guys only have a VANS license and a license for their equipment. It still does not allow them to self provide.

There are many VANS in South Africa. And your Wi-Fi card in your laptop has a similiar "Radio Equipment Type" Certificate. It still doesn't allow you to self provide.

I am not negative - I'm all for competition, but the fact is that cheap WISPs tend to polute the airspace, mostly with WiFi cards with boosted power output. This tends to screw with everybody else that use that band!

iBurst and Sentech both have licenses for radio spectrum. Thus they can do what they can do. Because radio spectrum is an extremely limited resource, I'm all for regulation of it.

The fact is, our telecommunication problems is a political one, and no amount of technology is going to solve it.
 
johand - I agree.. WISPs should not be using the free bands like 2.4GHz.

This is one of the reason why Wireless can be unstable.

If one was to start a wireless company as discribed at the beginning of the thread then they should have their own licensed band.
 
JAYDEE said:
Hi All Members of the forums

I'm looking to start a small private wireless content providing company. Having looked at both Sentech's and Iburst's business model, I believe they are completely missing the point of having their own wireless network. Why havent anyone of them even come close to bundling content or services via their very own networks. Surely this is a way around Helkom and a major trend in developed nations.

If anyone is interested in reinventing the wheel here in South Africa, give me a shout.:cool:
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If you are not black no chance china .... Iburst Is a BEE company and Sentech is goverment owned.
 
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