A wasted decade in SA broadband

[Drake2007]

Some excerts from the full article here

This price war has been a long time coming. For the past decade, the cost of bandwidth has been excessive. The inept former communications minister did her level best to protect Telkom from the perfect storm it was always going to face. She allowed Telkom shareholders to milk the situation to the detriment of ordinary South Africans.
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Service providers also want Telkom to do away with charging two line rentals: one for basic telephony, the other for broadband access. They argue that Telkom cannot justify charging separate fees. It’s an area telecoms regulator Icasa needs to investigate.
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The previous administration called on the local loop to be unbundled fully by November 2011. Given that Icasa has barely begun work on the process, it’s unlikely that this deadline will be met
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SA’s telecoms industry has finally begun to normalise after years of abuse by the incumbent operators. But we still have a long way to go.

Long way to go bit of an understatement where in this country you can pay off a small car for the same price as Telkoms & ISP for a *Broadband line.

*Broadband = not that fast and faster crud that Telkom likes to brainwash consumers with.

Anyway, here's to another Decade of Telkom and all the other sideliners raping the South African economy and keeping us in the dark ages.