Affordable broadband for all by 2020 in South Africa

2020.... that's 6 years from now. By that time, our definition "affordable broadband" will have been outgrown... again.
 
Weren't there 2 similar articles last week as well? That table seems all too familiar.

Must be a slow day for news...
 
100% of schools connected by 2015. Somebody has been smoking their rotten socks. When currently only 25% are connected.
 
justing said:
100% of schools connected by 2015. Somebody has been smoking their rotten socks. When currently only 25% are connected.
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[-]Half[/-] Most of the schools in Mpumalanga and Limpopo don't even have electricity or phone lines.... and "by 2015" is 14 months from now. Good luck :D
 
justing said:
100% of schools connected by 2015. Somebody has been smoking their rotten socks. When currently only 25% are connected.
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That deadline will slip by unnoticed and when we get a new minister for the DoC by no later than July 2014, the new minister will kindly inform us that there are various challenges and they are planning some workshops to figure out how to tackle the problem.

As for the 2020 "broadband for all" deadline, look at the Zuma job creation promise of a few years ago (was it 4 years already?). 5 MILLION jobs and what happened? S.A. actually shed jobs...so go figure how much broadband matters to the government in comparison to job creation. ZERO.

Government really could not care less about broadband. They know all the citizens of our sad apathetic country really want is a promise, to shut us up, and then we will not protest again until months before the 2019 elections. By 2020, all previous promises will already be forgotten again and who will hold government accountable? Nobody.
 
South Africans will have access to broadband services at 2.5% or less of the average monthly income for South Africa.
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Huh?!?!? What is that?! Anyone with a link to "average monthly income for South Africa"? The unions will have a field day with this one.
 
"50% at 5Mbps"

Where is the majority of users now in relationship to this target?
 
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