Slow Internet in South Africa — Who to blame
Although it seems logical to blame Internet service providers and platform operators like Disney+ for badly performing online services in South Africa, they aren’t the main culprits for the country’s current connectivity problems.
Internet users in...
Africa's three decades-long communications revolution and South Africa's contribution to making it happen — an outsider's view
Mobile operations started in Sub-Saharan Africa before South Africa licensed three new operators but the level of investment interest in communications was very low...
@PBCool
Very glad to see you have joined us at Mybroadband,
I just wanted to state that I have been using your service for approximately a week now and it has been fairly solid. I know in a previous posting you have stated that you guys don't throttle or shape your connections.
I have...
Telkom international connectivity problems ongoing
Internet service providers and consumers alike continue to report international connectivity problems on the Telkom network
SAT-3 maintenance this weekend: latency warning
Telkom is confident that planned maintenance on SAT–3 won’t result in downtime, but cautioned of possible increased latency
Maintenance on SAT-3 this weekend
Telkom said that it will perform planned maintenance on its SAT3 undersea cable network, and that users may experience degraded international connectivity
Enough international bandwidth for now, reckons Telkom CEO
Telkom CEO Nombulelo Moholi says that Telkom has no immediate plans to increase its investment in submarine cables
There is no SAT3 failure says Telkom
According to Telkom, none of its Internet customers are impacted by the failure on a cable between Portugal and the UK
MWEB secures SAT-3 bandwidth: details
MWEB recently announced that it is landing SAT-3 cable capacity to bring more redundancy to its services. Here are the details.
A couple of months ago I read that Seacom were investigating the cause of the repeater failure that caused their latest outage. I also saw that they were hoping to secure connectivity through the Red Sea and across Egypt "by September".
Does anyone have an update on
* the cause of the...
TENET wants on-demand international bandwidth
TENET today released an RFP for the purchase of disaster recovery international bandwidth in case their SEACOM link goes down
Bandwidth from one cable can be risky
Reliance on one cable for bandwidth is a risky business and can cause major disruptions and customer dissatisfaction, as was recently experienced with the disruption of the Seacom sub-marine cable.