Cheap internet access 'coming'

Yippy, it's finaly coming. Oh oh, only in 10 years! Let them enjoy it so long in the US, UK, the East and Kenya. Here we are not ready for cheap stuff. We are going to build special equipmet. There is no hurry in Africa. We always have to wait for something. There's never gonna be a d-day for prices. For instance, what is happening with ICASA's announcement with regards to price cuts?
 
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Sure the technology will be in available but the incumbent operators will fight its introduction tooth and nail.
 
umm they forgetting one thing. unlike the us or uk or any one of a number of places, here in good old sa, the gvt dont have our best interests at heart, they have theirs. so even if something is invented that allows every human being on the planet to get a 1gbps line for the equivalent of 1usd a month, we will still pay in the region of about 1000 usd for that line and we will only be allowed to use it for 1 hour a day between 2am and 3 am and then only for 1 hour a week (so pick your day carefully everyone)
 
Yeah, we'll finally get wireless "access for all" by the time the rest of the world have deployed Fibre to the curb. No wait Japan and Korea have done that already . . . .
 
5 years from now??? With the billions Telkom is raking in we could've had it 5 years ago.
 
I spoke to a French guy that was here in SA doing work for my company. He has internet at home. Here is what he pays.

29 (+-R260) Euros for the Following
20mbps down, 4 mbps up line
No Cap
TV (Basically, the same as DSTV)
Telephone line

In SA you would pay (59 euros R535)
Telkom 384kbps (52x Slower!!!) (R245)
Telkom Telephone line (R90)
3gig Cap (R200)
 
Don't forget the extra R400 for DSTV if you want to make it comparable.
 
Oh ***, Gates says some feel-good obvious stuff and the media repeats it as if its the special and unique wisdom of an oracle. He gets so much free press now just for being Bill Gates it's ridiculous. Can't stand the way he paints himself as some kind of 'visionary amongst plebs' who is smart enough to see things that so many things others can't ("the ability of technology to change the way the world worked has been consistently underestimated by critics") ... jeez, just him and several billion other people realise that obvious fact. (This happens with all celebrities in general; anything they say is automatically elevated to artificial levels of importance and significance, wish the media would rather report on people who have intelligent things to say.)

Anyway, we could already have had cheap broadband in Africa and particularly South Africa, technology isn't the problem, the "regulatory environment" is.
 
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Also let's not forget that in his book "The Road Ahead" which he published in the 90's he didn't even mention the frickin' Internet.
 
Just think 10 years from now we will have cheap affordable internet access, the rest of the world however will have free high speed internet access ... Aah yes, good ol monopolies ... and soon the Monopoly will be a duopoly .. Woot !!
 
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