Herotel will distribute Amazon Leo in South Africa

So let me get this straight ...

LEO satellite internet is coming to South Africa as evry powered by Amazon distributed by Herotel owned by Vumatel sitting inside Maziv which also owns Dark Fibre Africa, SADV and Britelink MCT controlled by CIVH controlled by Remgro with Vodacom owning 30% of Maziv and Remgro separately owning 30% of SEACOM.

Finally, competition ;)
 
quovadis said:
So let me get this straight ...

LEO satellite internet is coming to South Africa as evry powered by Amazon distributed by Herotel owned by Vumatel sitting inside Maziv which also owns Dark Fibre Africa, SADV and Britelink MCT controlled by CIVH controlled by Remgro with Vodacom owning 30% of Maziv and Remgro separately owning 30% of SEACOM.

Finally, competition ;)
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Not competition, more like Ramadingong and friends got lots of brown envelopes.
Elawn wouldn't stoop that low, instead he said to them "p1ss off with your begging bowl, Cyril"
 
But how can it be - Jeff Bezos is not black. /s

Amazing how Amazon can navigate our regulatory framework before launching a service and Starlink still struggles.

And BTW - I don't think our regulatory environment (including BEE) is more difficult than a South African company trying to set up a telecoms in the US. They have some nasty restrictions of their own.
 
EmmanuelGoldstein said:
Not competition, more like Ramadingong and friends got lots of brown envelopes.
Elawn wouldn't stoop that low, instead he said to them "p1ss off with your begging bowl, Cyril"
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Not really, Elon just doesnt want to partner with anyone locally to distribute and Amazon LEO are. Good for them, Elon can fly a kite
 
If this doesn't prompt some serious investigation into what's going on "under the table" then nothing will.
 
Johand said:
But how can it be - Jeff Bezos is not black. /s

Amazing how Amazon can navigate our regulatory framework before launching a service and Starlink still struggles.

And BTW - I don't think our regulatory environment (including BEE) is more difficult than a South African company trying to set up a telecoms in the US. They have some nasty restrictions of their own.
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https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/public...R 365 million) in developing 100% black-owned

So much for "non-racialism" in terms of the Constitution. The argument goes that ignoring race would simply freeze the inequalities of the past. Truly, it has done the opposite, and has made everyone but the cadres poorer. Which they likely view as success. Let's see how temporary the "redress" laws are. The government's argument is something to the effect of: As long as there are a majority of poor black people, the measures should either remain in place or increase. As long as they keep black people poor, by design, those measures will have no end date in sight. Why would they want to uplift the people that put them into power, who they then become accountable to, when they could simply steal and then point the finger at others?
 
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