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Most of these are barely in the planning stages. Wake me up when the cable laying ships are actually on their way.
 
Darn... got my hopes up like he meant as in tomorrow... not the 1+ years its going to take to build these if ever.

Telkom says it is concerned about the number of proposed cable systems along Africa's east coast. "The deployment of two or more cables within the same region will affect the commercial viability of all of them," it says.
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Shame... competition is a bugger isn't it. The only thing that it threatens is Telkom's stranglehold on broadband traffic prices.
 
The market for international telecommunication services is about to be blown wide open.
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That implies a sense of imminence - oh well.
Telkom says it is concerned about the number of proposed cable systems along Africa's east coast. "The deployment of two or more cables within the same region will affect the commercial viability of all of them," it says.
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Telkom's worried they could be the one getting boagya'ed - finally.
 
Concerned....hahaha. Finally it looks like Telkom are starting to crap themselves....the wheels turns....slowly, but it turns!!
 
Telkom says it is concerned about the number of proposed cable systems along Africa's east coast. "The deployment of two or more cables within the same region will affect the commercial viability of all of them," it says.
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The only reason the beast is saying this is beacuse they will not coin as much like they do now if there are 4 seperate cables. Now there is only one and they will be the biggist investor in the EASSY cable so they will coin with that one but with two other projects only a small percentage of bandwith will go through their dockingstations so their return on their investments will take a huge nosedive and hopefully [giggling]the company will close its doors[/giggling]
 
I wonder if I can get them to build the landing station in my back-yard?
 
What ... and no mention of the imminent opening up of the SAT3 cable tomorrow!?
 
Skip said:
Tomorrow? I thought it was in April?
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http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=279980&area=/insight/insight__economy__business/


FTA:
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Minister of Communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri announced in her budget speech in May that the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) had six months from the promulgation of the Electronic Communications Act to ensure that all individual electronic licences can self-provide their international traffic.

Internet service providers (ISP) who can self provide will be better able to compete with Telkom in the bandwidth wholesale and retail markets.

The Act was promulgated on June 19 2006 and therefore Icasa’s D-day is January 19 2007.

Icasa councillor Zolisa Masiza confirmed that the regulator was working towards the January deadline, but said it is in negotiations with the communications department about implementation....
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Nope sorry, just checked and bandwidth is just as expensive as it has always been, no change, no fuss, move along please.


The Act was promulgated on June 19 2006 and therefore Icasa’s D-day is January 19 2007.
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well now!
 
I don't think that affects Telkom's exclusivity on the SAT-3 cable landing station (which expires in April). ISP's can now self provide internationally but without access to SAT-3 or other cables it ain't going to be easy.
 
Blergh. More talk and still no action. Are there one single cable from that list that they are currently building?

All talk, yet again...
 
I love Telkoms mentallity...

How would they explain away the 5 or 6 DIFFERENT undersea cables leaving asia, and I don't even want to know how many cables link US and Europe....

Commercial viability my left nut, The demand is there, they're just artificially keeping the supply low.
 
Their response is silly.. tho i hate the topic header.. I mean i thought wohoo tomorrow i can order my new account. Now i see its all in some distant future.
 
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