Campaign aims to get schools connected

[AdLo]

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[rpm]

Hi guys

I have just email Jenny and informed her that we support this campaign. I have invited her to the forum and hope se sees her way clear to inform us about any progress.

Regards,

RPM

 

[Voodoo]

I work at a school and we sure do not recieve this. Wonder if it only applies to dialup or to adsl as well? Seems here we go again needing to fight before we get some response from telkom.

Cheerz
Voodoo

 

[kilps]

Apparently our school can't get it because it is a private school - anyone know if a private school should be allowed to get it? I hate less than 10kbps

 

[kilps]

Why only public schools? No me still has to live on slow internet

 

[ScrnScrm]

Apparently our school can't get it because it is a private school - anyone know if a private school should be allowed to get it? I hate less than 10kbps

As far as I know, it applies to registered education institutions. If your school has an edu.za, school.za or ac.za domain suffix, it generally means you qualify. However, I know of one (very expensive) private school in Cape Town that was refused school.za and edu.za registrations. I hope you dont go there

 

[kilps]

As far as I know, it applies to registered education institutions. If your school has an edu.za, school.za or ac.za domain suffix, it generally means you qualify. However, I know of one (very expensive) private school in Cape Town that was refused school.za and edu.za registrations. I hope you dont go there

Um - Lets put it this way - the schools address is .org.za but it uses .school.za for the proxy server (and apparently also for the address a while back), and its in Cape Town - if you browse this forum enough you can find out what school it is

 

[ScrnScrm]

eh, I see. Nope, sorry dude, you guys dont qualify....

 

[DavidP]

As far as I know, it applies to registered education institutions. If your school has an edu.za, school.za or ac.za domain suffix, it generally means you qualify. However, I know of one (very expensive) private school in Cape Town that was refused school.za and edu.za registrations. I hope you dont go there

Hi All

The 50% discount applies to Goverment Schools only as per the Act. Once all Goverment Schools have got the 50% discount the ESN can take the comlpaints from private schools to ICASA on case by case basis. We hope that eventually the Act will be amended to include all schools.

On your point this has not much to do the domain names, secondly no school private or goverment has or will be refused a school.za domain. I suspect you may have got the wrong end of a stick ;-). As for edu.za this is reserved for further education intitutions and therefor a school may very well have been refused a domain.

David Peall
Systems Administrator
e-Schools' Network

 

[Voodoo]

As of 18 January 2005 public schools and public further education training institutions will be entitled to a 50% discount on:

§ all telecommunications calls to an Internet service provider
§ any connection or similar fees or charges levied by an Internet service provider for accessing the internet or transmitting and receiving any signals via the internet or for such access and transmission and reception

I phoned Telkom at 10210 and spoke to a rep about the discount. She did not have an idea of what I was talking about. I asked her to take it up with her Supervisor. Nonhlanhla Chamane, the supervisor, also had no idea.

I told them I would take it up with ICASA. Go ahead, they said.

Then phoned Mweb as they seemingly also need to give us 50%. Their Marketing Manager, Dianne, did not return my numerous calls. So it seems that they also will not give in without a fight.

Will phone mweb again tomorrow and see what else I can find out.

In the meantime I have sent Jenny my info so she can take it up with ICASA.

Cheerz
Voodoo

 

[ScrnScrm]

Hi All

The 50% discount applies to Goverment Schools only as per the Act. Once all Goverment Schools have got the 50% discount the ESN can take the comlpaints from private schools to ICASA on case by case basis. We hope that eventually the Act will be amended to include all schools.

On your point this has not much to do the domain names, secondly no school private or goverment has or will be refused a school.za domain. I suspect you may have got the wrong end of a stick ;-). As for edu.za this is reserved for further education intitutions and therefor a school may very well have been refused a domain.

David Peall
Systems Administrator
e-Schools' Network

Thanks for clarifying this for us dude.

 

[Voodoo]

Just an update:

Mweb returned my call and they scheduled a telephone conference this coming Wednesday, with myself, their CEO and someone from their legal dept.

Wooo, sounds ominous. LOL

Will let you guys know what transpired.

Cheerz
Voodoo

 

[Voodoo]

So, I spoke to a lady from Mweb. She said they would be happy to give the 50% discount to any Govt school, but only on dialup. Stated that the profit margin on adsl was too small for this.

Apparently Jenny King from E-Schools is running this for mweb and should any school (existing and new mweb dialup schools) want to claim the 50% (not backdated though) get ahold of Jenny.

So mweb is willing to give in on dialup and Telkom might only on adsl. Go figure.

Cheerz
Voodoo