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to africa and it excludes south africa
 
Unless the satellite is owned by South Africans, it will not be allowed to connect in South Africa. This is according to the DOC. The reasons given are, among others, the failure or unwillingness of the private sector to drive the prices down. So the solution, according to the DOC, is to protect the incumbent operators. Makes a lot of sense to me!

I am not trying to be negative, but I am hoping Zuma will not be as corrupt as Mbeki. This fellow is singularly responsible for the most corrupt government since apartheid. The sooner he goes, the better.
 
Of course is excludes south africa , we have low cost hi speed large cap broadband in south africa :p

Sigh one day , affordable broadband ..... we can dream
 
Just for a moment there, I thought Google was on to something - until I saw the word "satellite" :(
 
brilliantt said:
I am not trying to be negative, but I am hoping Zuma will not be as corrupt as Mbeki. This fellow is singularly responsible for the most corrupt government since apartheid. The sooner he goes, the better.
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That's a joke you obviously have not been following the Zuma case:eek:
 
Sheez everything in 2010. Its gonna be a great year or the worst messup that you'll ever see. Hehe
 
kaaskop said:
Sheez everything in 2010. Its gonna be a great year or the worst messup that you'll ever see. Hehe
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I will go with the latte. Not to sound negative, but we have heard it all before like a stuck record! "Cheap broadband,Cheap broadband, Cheap broadband" What eva!
 
Hellbilly Deluxe said:
Of course is excludes south africa , we have low cost hi speed large cap broadband in south africa :p
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i know it was in jest, but this would have been correct if you said South Korea

:D damn you mbeki! and ivy! and icasa! a hex on you and your hemorrhoids!
 
kaaskop said:
Sheez everything in 2010. Its gonna be a great year or the worst messup that you'll ever see. Hehe
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I'm hoping 2010 is gonna be the biggest messup year ever, for South Africa. Not because I'm being negative, but because this is probably the the only way to shock our usesless government and its useless politicians into action. A world wide embarrasment... that should do the trick. If not... tsk!
 
According to the O3b Networks the system will offer fiber performance over satellite, at prices comparable to fiber in developed regions.
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That's a blatant lie.
Maybe they can stream data at fibre speeds over satellite but they can never reduce the terrible latency unless they figure out a way to make radio waves travel faster than light.

Satellites in geostationary orbit are about 35,000 km from the surface of the Earth.
The signal has to travel a minimum of 70,000 km to "bounce" off a satellite which gives a minimum latency of 233 ms. Then add the extra latency of getting that signal processed onboard the satellite as well as moving the data around on the ground on both ends and the latency is typically 500-700ms minimum.

Fibre performance? :rolleyes:
 
ToxicWazte said:
I'm hoping 2010 is gonna be the biggest messup year ever, for South Africa. Not because I'm being negative, but because this is probably the the only way to shock our usesless government and its useless politicians into action. A world wide embarrasment... that should do the trick. If not... tsk!
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Embarrasment won't help. They'll find another way to divert the world's attention.
 
Hi all

All i am going to say is talk about speed aka fast internet been great and prices doping for bandwidth.. all it is just yet again all talk and no action ....:D hope to actually see the speeds and the price go down really soon ....
 
Latency = 130ms

Paul_S's comment re satellite latency is valid for geostationary satellites, like those that beam us DSTV. But the O3b plan is to use an array of satellites in low earth orbit, resulting in much shorter round trips, and latency that's comparable to submarine cable.

Each satellite will have 10Gb/s of capacity, if I read their website (www.o3bnetworks.com) correctly. That's not a lot when compared to submarine cable, but a huge leap for under-served African countries.


Paul_S said:
That's a blatant lie.
Maybe they can stream data at fibre speeds over satellite but they can never reduce the terrible latency unless they figure out a way to make radio waves travel faster than light.

Satellites in geostationary orbit are about 35,000 km from the surface of the Earth.
The signal has to travel a minimum of 70,000 km to "bounce" off a satellite which gives a minimum latency of 233 ms. Then add the extra latency of getting that signal processed onboard the satellite as well as moving the data around on the ground on both ends and the latency is typically 500-700ms minimum.

Fibre performance? :rolleyes:
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Me thinks google wants its own network to gather private information faster.:) What's the terms of service on this?
 
Me likes..I associate google with delivery..so I am hoping that they gonna come through on this one...as for 2010, I hope it succeeds, I dont like the current goverment, am not a soccer fan but I am ZA fan..so bring it on, we had the Rugby, the Cricket, the Afcon so lets get going already..
 
brilliantt said:
Unless the satellite is owned by South Africans, it will not be allowed to connect in South Africa. This is according to the DOC. The reasons given are, among others, the failure or unwillingness of the private sector to drive the prices down. So the solution, according to the DOC, is to protect the incumbent operators. Makes a lot of sense to me!
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Yep, welcome to the world of government monopolies. They're SURE to want to drive prices down when there's no competition. A course in free-market economics should be a requirement for every government official.
 
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