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grantduke

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Just have a quick question:

Why can't all the ISP together build their own fibre network? So that we can skip Telkom. I think if this could happen everyone will then be able to skip Telkom, and Telkom will then be forced to do the same, or do something to get its customers back.

I mean if all of them could split the cost of building a fibre network together. I don't see how this could not work.

I really would like to know what your comments are.

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Grant
 
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froot said:
You offering to help pay for it? ;)
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I wish :D

But think about it. All of those company's make a couple of thousand's of rands each month. Why can't they build their own fibre network? And never have to pay Telkom IPC costs again
 
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GoofySmurf

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grantduke said:
Just have a quick question:

Why can't all the ISP together build their own fibre network? So that we can skip Telkom. I think if this could happen everyone will then be able to skip Telkom, and Telkom will then be forced to do the same, or do something to get its customers back.

I mean if all of them could split the cost of building a fibre network together. I don't see how this could not work.

I really would like to know what your comments are.

Regards
Grant
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Because they will rather do it them self and have the entire pie than to share it with the competition.
 
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grantduke said:
I wish :D

But think about it. All of those company's make a couple of thousand's of rands each month. Why can't they build their own fibre network? And never have to pay Telkom IPC costs again
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You do realize that to bypass IPC you one have to build a national backbone network and two you got to drop a fibre to every single client you want to serve, ie. every house/business.........draw some lines on a map of South Africa, measure the distances, times by R1000 per metre to lay fibre and come back to me...lol. A much better way of doing it would be to build the national network and get the ECN license holders to build the access network
 
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eddief1 said:
You do realize that to bypass IPC you one have to build a national backbone network and two you got to drop a fibre to every single client you want to serve, ie. every house/business.........draw some lines on a map of South Africa, measure the distances, times by R1000 per metre to lay fibre and come back to me...lol. A much better way of doing it would be to build the national network and get the ECN license holders to build the access network
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Thanks for this explanation. I had actually wondered the same thing myself, and now that I think about it, R1000 per metre would be absolutely prohibitive even if everyone but Telkom pooled literally all the money that they have.
 
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froot

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grantduke said:
Come on guys, think a bit more then than. Read this article http://mybroadband.co.za/news/adsl/89321-cheapest-adsl-data-prices-ever-in-south-africa.html and you tell me that they can't afford it? Just look at all the money Afrihost alone made.
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You should do yourself a favour, and find out what fiber costs per kilometer, then add costs for trenching, and for the design of the system, and for administrative issues (legal, consultants, municipal requirements and so forth), and then for other equipment as required. It will run into the billions.

Then on top of that, it will only be feasible if there is a pretty high uptake from the get-go, which has zero guarantees, and then you should consider the payback period and the profit-generating abilities of the project.

Feasibility study 101 ;)
 
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