Article Mistake corrections

[jes]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/cellular/19659-Cell-42Mbps-HSPA-launching-next-week.html

New 42Mbps launch date - 19 February 2011?

Fixed, thanks. We're living in the past today :S

 

[Smurfatefrog]

DSTV Vs TopTV
Decoder & Dish prices are the wrong way around

 

[jes]

Thanks for spotting that; fixed.

 

[Shake&Bake]

SEACOM launches Internet services in South Africa

From paragraph 2.

SEACOM first launched services in South Africa in July 2009, using SEACOM as a local partner to land the cable in South Africa and carry bandwidth to its point of presence (PoP) in Midrand.

Is that not, meant to be; "using Neotel as a local partner"?
Other than that, I don't see how they could use themselves

Found another:

From paragraph 3

explaining that it will involves the design, deployment and operation of nine land-based Internet access points.

Involve the design...

 

[Zyron]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/telec...ion-complete-but-Egypt-problems-continue.html

Last Sentence:

Ramdhani merely said that they cannot comment on their progress in Egypt because of the sensitive political nature of situation.

Of the situation.

 

[ajax]

"Why Cell C is making whooosh even faster":

900mhz -> 900 MHz
"one-month later" -> "one month later"
mobile data going to explode -> is going to
grow at 92% compound annual growth rate -> at a 92% compound

 

[rpm]

Thanks Ajax - fixed

 

[bdt]

Ahh, further to ajax's post above, the following are very much NOT fixed:

• "Feisty Cell C, however, used PE as its testing bed and launch city for its next-generation 900Mhz 21.6mbps HSPA+ network eight months ago." - that should be MHz and Mbps; the 'm' signifies MILLI! (perhaps someone should explain this to him)
• "He admitted that the jump from 21.6mbps to 42mbps hadn’t been easy technically."
• ... etcetera, ad nauseum, Hilton REALLY doesn't get units and prefixes!

Then, the clangers at the bottom:

• PS: Speedtests using the same modems and equipment comparing Cell C and Vodacom saw differing results. Cell C won out right and was decidely faster when testing to a neutral server located in South Africa.

Ah, 'outright' is one word and that other word is most definitely not that, it's decidedly

 

[ajax]

"Lars Reichelt wins AdReview Marketing Person of the Year award:"

Media Innovation for is Photocode product -> its

 

[rpm]

Thanks Ajax - fixed

 

[bdt]

And yet, on the STILL-offending article all ov the below seem to have ..ahh.. 'whooshed' by!

Ahh, further to ajax's post above, the following are very much NOT fixed:

• "Feisty Cell C, however, used PE as its testing bed and launch city for its next-generation 900Mhz 21.6mbps HSPA+ network eight months ago." - that should be MHz and Mbps; the 'm' signifies MILLI! (perhaps someone should explain this to him)
• "He admitted that the jump from 21.6mbps to 42mbps hadn’t been easy technically."
• ... etcetera, ad nauseum, Hilton REALLY doesn't get units and prefixes!

Then, the clangers at the bottom:

• PS: Speedtests using the same modems and equipment comparing Cell C and Vodacom saw differing results. Cell C won out right and was decidely faster when testing to a neutral server located in South Africa.

Ah, 'outright' is one word and that other word is most definitely not that, it's decidedly

 

[ajax]

"2GB mobile broadband promotion comparison"
All three providers are offerings
-> offering

 

[AirWolf]

And yet, on the STILL-offending article all ov the below seem to have ..ahh.. 'whooshed' by!

rpm and others have mentioned before that outside content is reproduced verbatim and is not edited.

 

[bdt]

rpm and others have mentioned before that outside content is reproduced verbatim and is not edited.

Almost: they've reported that they publish, for instance, SAPA content verbatim but have, in a particularly egregious example fixed it anyway. And I'm pretty certain that (local) columnists whose submissions have had errors have been corrected too.

 

[gregmcc]

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/333212-Microsoft-purchases-Skype-for-US-85-billion

Should be 8.5 Billion

 

[jes]

Thanks; fixed.

 

[bdt]

In rpm's IT salaries article, the 'salaries by job function' graph has "Secuirity" 3rd line down. That should be 'Security'

 

[bdt]

Staff Writer got redundant in Microsoft buys Skype with the heading:

Skype and Microsoft have entered into a definitive agreement whereby Microsoft will acquire Skype for US$8.5 billion US

Having already stated USD currency the second one shouldn't be there.

 

[jes]

In rpm's IT salaries article, the 'salaries by job function' graph has "Secuirity" 3rd line down. That should be 'Security'

Hmmm; unfortunately that's an image taken from the report. I'll let RPM know and see if we can fix it somehow.

The Skype article has been fixed.

Thanks.

 

[latro]

In the article FibreCo: Our pricing will turn SA broadband market upside down, the surname of Mr Ngcaba was spelled wrongly two times, both highlighted below.

FibreCo plans to address this by offering disruptive pricing for carrying national traffic. When asked whether FibreCo is planning to shake up the local broadband market with aggressive bandwidth pricing, Ncaba said “No, we’re going to turn it upside down.”

Cheaper bandwidth pricing will go a long way toward making broadband access cheaper in South Africa, and an initiative such as FibreCo can indeed have a big impact on end-user pricing, as Ncaba suggested.