Broadband a top priority to up internet accessibility

Havent they identified it a year or two ago - and had meetings and more meetings and still nothing has really been done about it? Quite the Priority!. International Data is still expensive! Telkom is Still milking us, we still have to contend to a CAP online which shouldnt be there...

*sigh* waste of me typing. If it was a priority, we would have had cheap Internet not long after President Mbeke made mention that our prices are too high!.

Come come now!.

I'm sure there's blame allround. If telkom's International DATA prices was at cost - this alone would cause iBurst, Sentech and whoever else's prices to fall, and caps likely ro resize.
And that's just one of them.
 
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For many the advantages of the internet are not apparent. If govt was to make dial-up free can you imagine the amount of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people who would go online for the first time and experiance the internet for what it is and what it can offer. This would immediately encourage people to want more bandwidth(speed) and the demand for broadband would soar. I've been a net user for more than a decade and the quest for speed is one of the main drivers of this technology. After spending a few months with dial-up and waiting for pages to load I'm sure most newbies will want to up the speed and will opt for cheap braodband packages. Offering a 1mbps package to a nood who hasn't even logged on before is like offering a 1100 suzuki to a toddler. FREE THE NET! FREE DIAL-UP FOR ALL!
 
"According to World Wide Worx, there were 147 000 broadband users last year and forecast 277 000 broadband users by the end of the year."


I would say that there are no more than 10 000 broadband users in South Africa, ADSL with 3 Gigabytes cap is not a broadband, it's a joke brought to you by Telkom

when people sepak of broadband I consider 30 Gigabytes monthly usage the absolute minimum
 
Don't worry it's going to be a priority for the next ten years still. The saying is coming true, 'there's no hurry in Africa'. I bet we will still be blaming the 'imbalances of the past' for another...shush, don't say it.
 
*sigh*, when will the GVT realise the best way to prioritise broadband is to privatise Telkom completely and open up the Telecoms industry entirely? Let real competition in and blow the industry wide open.
 
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