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I would like to remind all of the participants in this endless wave of negativity that we should be thankfull for what we do have.
<font color="blue"><i>I am not thankful if my local bandwidth counts toward my international bandwidth. Why should I be? It is blatant exploitation of an excuse that doesn’t hold water!</i></font id="blue">
Two years ago, we didn't have ADSL, we couldn't buy it, we didn't have Sentech, and we couldn't buy two way sattillite internet access either.
<font color="blue"><i>All true (from an ordinary consumer point of view anyway). It isn’t an excuse however. Broadband or at least always on internet should not be a privelage in a developing country anymore. It makes a world of difference to our economic deveopment outlook. I refuse to accept excuses by government or Telkom when it comes to these issues. If Telkom doesn’t want to advance these technolgies free up the hands of those who will!</i></font id="blue">
If you wanted the same 512kbps maximum rate you can get from your ADSL line two years ago, you would have to pay almost R50 000 per month for a Diginet line and the bandwidth from an ISP (which would almost always be aggregated anyway)
<font color="blue"><i>That is no reason to put your hands in the air and praise Telkom! It is a bloody disgrace that it took so damn long to bring broadband nevermind always on internet to the people. Even today it is only the upper middleclass and up that can afford it. It is still an outrage! Would you disagree when I say that this technology is already mission critical for economical growth?</i></font id="blue">
As far as the cap goes, yes 3GB isn't all the bandwidth in the world, but I do agree, it is enough.
<font color="blue"><i>That might be true to a certain extent. The way it is managed though and the true reason for the existance of this cap still elude me. When you compare the different data service options of Telkom, you will find that they are delibierately crippled in such a way as to not make eachother redundant. It doesn’t take a genius to figure this out. Do it yourself and the questions will start surfacing!</i></font id="blue">
I share the connection with my neighbour, via an 802.11b link (sssssssshhhh, I'm sure it's not illegal, we don't cross a public road, it's only 1mW signal strengh, but Telkom and ICASA would probably frown on this), We have been using ADSL for a month now, and find that we rarely exceed 50MB per day. At 50MB per day, we still have a large chunk of our quota left at the end of the month.
<font color="blue"><i>It is illegal! I asked ICASA myself! It shouldn’t be!</i> </font id="blue">
Furthermore, I would like to remind you all that we are living in Africa. That's not a statement to be taken lightly. If we were living in any other country in Africa, we would scarcely have internet access at all. 9600bps dial-up is a luxury in most African countries, and that is aggregated, because most POPs are connected together by 33600bps permanent circuit lines. ADSL and the other services we have here aren't even on the horizon in other African countries.
<font color="blue"><i>Again not an excuse! We have more than enough willing companies wanting to get into the service provision business. If they couldn’t because we were too poor, backward or stupid, I would agree, but we are not! </i></font id="blue">
So, stop bitching and try to be thankfull for a change.
<font color="blue"><i>This is not bitching, it is called agrivated surcomstance and willingness to bring about change…</i></font id="blue">
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