Tick-tock Minister, tick-tock

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Tick-tock Minister, tick-tock

Web Africa CEO Tim Wyatt-Gunning responds to the Minister Pule’s call for public, private collaboration in broadband challenge

[MickeyD]

Give 'em horns, Tim !!!

[WAJeff]

That's our CEO

[Garyvdh]

Excellent points, but do you seriously think she is going to put down her donut and actually read all of that?

[Nether]

I doubt she uses the internet, I don't think she even knows about his reaction.

[ShaunSA]

blah blah blah blah blah. She is minister of communications so I guess yakking is her main function.

[VJB 449]

Another year, another MoC, another useless speech.

[MickeyD]

That's our CEO

... and he reads our comments on MyBB as well

[Mr.CookieMonster]

...and adsl line and voice line pricing is comming up. Wow, very affordable.

[Rands]

I'd bet my left nut that she doesn't answer a single question raised in that article.

Sad actually, cos these are the things that the DOC should have sorted out years ago.

[The Trutherizer]

What people really need is a complete breakdown of the costs involved with an ISP providing 1GB of data to the publlic. I am not in the business, but I know something of it through various sources and from what I have heard the public has no idea how much of the cost of 1GB goes directly to Telkom (backhual, etc...), Icasa (licensing fees), DoC (probably some other licenses), Government in general (taxes), BEE (Costs involved with compliance). Not to mention the oppressiveness of having to have fees calculated on a percentage of profits before taxes. Things like that.

Because Dina is spouting nonsense about public-private cooperation, but my perception is that they want to hold hands with an industry that they have been molesting for ages now.

And I for one would love to get the complete picture myself and hear the outcry when people realize that the biggest part of the cost of internet is basically one big tax.

[siraman]

You tell them Tim.

Bundling telephone lines with ADSL lines is a further problem which needs to be addressed. Real pre-paid options are attractive to the lower income families as our mobile network operators around the world have proved. Fixed line providers would be no different.

Aside from a business case point of view,technically, can ADSL not be provisioned on a real pre-paid basis?Say,from installation(having paid install fee) you have a grace period of.... 3 months?.. if line is inactive during that period then the circuit is switched off,necessitating the payment of the installation fee to re-activate...then data(ISP costs) and how deep your pockets are determining the rest of your access to broadband.

[Pr⊕phet]

Tick-tock Minister, tick-tock

Web Africa CEO Tim Wyatt-Gunning responds to the Minister Pule’s call for public, private collaboration in broadband challenge

Not too sure if WA can be seen as the infallible giving the fallible tips.

[HavocXphere]

Good points all round. Lack of good points isn't the problem though. The issues holding back ICT are so obvious that everybody can see them...except the people in charge apparently.

The private sector had better haul ass though since I'm pretty sure we are due for a cabinet reshuffle again soon. Then we get some minister who has zero clue about the portfolio he/she is assigned & we can start from scratch. Then 2 years latter the new minister is finally familiar with his/her portfolio & then promptly gets moved to some entirely unrelated area. Repeat ad infinitum.

[Bern]

+1000 Tim!!

Dina Pule spoke at a conference I attended earlier this week and it was the same speech again, no deliverables, just noble broad goals. So frustrating. They could honestly start with something not too aggressive, but very useful like a schools network. Hell it doesn't even need to access the internet, at least school content can be made available efficiently and information from schools can get to the department easily.