Broadband strategy for SA

are they just talking about or are they actually going to do something to drive costs down? mmm guess not.
 
strategy for SA broadband? hmm. that's easy: lower the prices and remove hardcapping, just throttle speeds if we go over...
 
Throttle speed? wtf? there shouldn't be any caps, period, or make the cap in the range of say 60gigs.

The best policy is to have no policy at all and let the market go free, when will government realize that they being there dictating everything will only make things worse, especially when they have such a large interest in the most corrupt telecoms company in the world, hellkom. which means they can never be truly objective about anything.

Another one of those never ending stories....
LLU commision...... nothing happening yet
commision on gas prices...... I'm still paying over R25 per kg of lpg
and the list goes on.......
 
Staff writer said:
Seacom, a submarine cable initiative will link South Africa to India and Europe by mid 2009 and break the monopoly of Telkom's SAT3 cable and bring down the cost of international bandwidth.
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No it won't.
 
tjunyat said:
It will actually bring down the cost of international bandwidth.
Whether the end user notices much difference is the actual question.
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in other words we as end user won't notice any change
 
Exactly. And hopefully soon they will start publishing articles on how bad we will have it when seacom lands, you know, all the shattered dreams and price increases to cover the massive investment costs of seacom.
 
Question: I don't see the problem with a hardcapping?

I'm online at least 6 hours a day.. I DONT download any torrents/movies/music etc... Except from the iTunes store. I browse, tweet, IM, Blog, video Chat, Skype.. the worx. I never ever go over 10GB in a month.

If you're using more than 15GB a month, you're doing something illegal online and deserve to be capped.
 
Firstly - there are legal ways to use up to 50 gigs, I have done so. There is nothing illegal with downloading an entire porn site that you bought access to. These days they have HD content so it gets quite big.

Secondly - You mention things like iTunes and tweet, FAIL.

Lastly - I do all my downloading on an Amobia connection - you probably became a fsck buddy for satan and get your internet via ADSL from Telkom.
 
Rouxenator said:
Firstly - there are legal ways to use up to 50 gigs, I have done so. There is nothing illegal with downloading an entire porn site that you bought access to. These days they have HD content so it gets quite big.

Secondly - You mention things like iTunes and tweet, FAIL.

Lastly - I do all my downloading on an Amobia connection - you probably became a fsck buddy for satan and get your internet via ADSL from Telkom.
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1. You download 50GB of Porn. thats really sad.

2. You use the word "fail"? Seriously?

I have 2Mb fibre line from neotel.
 
VertigoZA said:
Question: I don't see the problem with a hardcapping?

I'm online at least 6 hours a day.. I DONT download any torrents/movies/music etc... Except from the iTunes store. I browse, tweet, IM, Blog, video Chat, Skype.. the worx. I never ever go over 10GB in a month.

If you're using more than 15GB a month, you're doing something illegal online and deserve to be capped.
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Note to self: Make serious effort to change evil ways and become a self-proclaimed paragon of virtue.

But from such a lofty stance, wouldn't I also suffer from VertigoZA?
 
Keeping track of used cap

I need to know what kinds of internet activities to prohibit on our school's network to optimise cap. I'm well aware that viewing videos is OUT, but what else could be labelled as cap-expensive?
 
What about a local YouTube, what about Local Google services (why can't they host here, DUH)? What about you made your own multimedia content/dvd and want to share it to all your buddies or the rest of South Africa? What if you want to webcam your buddies/family all over South Africa?

So you are saying all the above mentioned is illegal? Don't limit your thinking to what is only possible now. Think ahead. We should have been there 10 years ago! How are local stuff suppose to thrive when Telkom dictates that you only need so much.
 
Kawak said:
Throttle speed? wtf? there shouldn't be any caps, period, or make the cap in the range of say 60gigs.

The best policy is to have no policy at all and let the market go free, when will government realize that they being there dictating everything will only make things worse, especially when they have such a large interest in the most corrupt telecoms company in the world, hellkom. which means they can never be truly objective about anything.

Another one of those never ending stories....
LLU commision...... nothing happening yet
commision on gas prices...... I'm still paying over R25 per kg of lpg
and the list goes on.......
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They should remove caps, remove shaping, and only charge per through put, like the wholesale guys do.
 
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