Bandwidth Wars Heating Up

<Q>Telkom is afforded the luxury of charging exorbitant rates through government’s reluctance to allow self provisioning or introduce true competition in the telecoms arena.</Q>

EGZAKKERY !

<Q>If the telecoms giants push their prices up too high it will make financial sense for companies like Google and Yahoo to develop and use their own infrastructure.</Q>

At least they CAN do that there - in this country governmint just grabs you by the testes and squeezes ... HARD ...
 
ic said:
what are South African hosting comapnies doing to compensate for the migration towards international hosting options?
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Probably nothing mate. One would wager that the local hosting industry practically didn’t exist in the first place. eg go and look at Nando's site for their ad's. The res is so *** why they bother I don’t know.
Also probably why local search engines suck so much, it’s hard to look for something that isn’t there.
The current situation is everything but conducive to growth, no matter what those buffoons in government say.
 
I noticed something similar last night. I was telling an overseas friend about mama jack. Went to google images and ran a search for leon schuster. Now you'd think that there would at least be a few SA websites with the chop's ugly mug on it but no. the first page's result had 1 and only one .za link in it. WTG telkom, you're sure doing a lot for SA webhosting and the net as a whole in SA.
 
Hey, looks like for once Telkom is ahead of international trends!! Where other companies now want to charge the ISP's for access to the infrastructure, Telkom has already taken care of that little problem by charging the customers a monthly rental! What amazing foresight! I wonder how long it will take for Telkom to start using these new developments as a justification for doing it themselves...

Scum.

Juice
 
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