Competition around the corner?

ISPs could soon be allowed to build alternative access networks, rivalling Telkom’s, using new wireless technologies.
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And each one of them will put up their own masts for base stations?
 
Joburg is already littered with cellphone masts and advertising billboards, surely there is a limit as to how much visual pollution Joburg can have?
 
Mmm that name Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri is at the end of the artical
 
Is there actually companies that care what Ivy, the evil idiot, says? Just build the newtworks and get on with it. What will they do? Send the police? Come on! Nobody cares what mamparra says! She will be history soon anyway.
 
Poison IVY... she has her grubby paws so deep in TELSKUM's pockets! Off course she drags her heels. Oh! wait she has to take her feet of the desk 1st before she can drag them! The lazy, greedy........
 
bekdik said:
Yes.

And then groups of people will veto the masts because of the brain damage they are suffering.
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:D
So basically all these operators are going to build us a nice big microwave oven to cook us in.
 
risingtide said:
And each one of them will put up their own masts for base stations?
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Each will probably operate in a limited area like the current wisps. Now why do I have the idea that all off them will "initially" concentrate on the same areas with many users. :rolleyes: These areas already have iBurst or Sentech access, it's time for the rest of the people to get a chance.
 
But a new wireless broadband technology, known as WiMax, has got ISPs excited at the prospect of independence from Telkom.
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They won't be truly independent until they can supply their own international bandwidth.
 
eremos said:
They won't be truly independent until they can supply their own international bandwidth.
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Getting rid of "access" fees which nobody else pays for would be a good start though. Unfortunately I have the feeling that they will just be the ones doing the raping instead of Telkom the way iBurst has done instead of charging R75/gig like with adsl.
 
Wireless is no competition to any wired setup if you are a gamer...

I have a wireless arial big enough to use as a boat anchor, trust me, I have been down that route... latency and dropped packets just makes it an absolute cointoss, which packets make it back to the server... this was with multiple ISPs and fly by night operators... me wireless, never again...

Oh but I forgot, gameing is abusive use of ADSL
 
WiMax is better than iburt and sentech in it's ability to manage access to the network. Thus better latency and 'theoretically' better average bandwidth (all this depends greatly on the oversell rate and number of base stations installed).

Seeing the list of companies having WiMax licences, well I sus[pect that oversell is going to be quite high. Perhaps we're lucky and all of them get an even spread of subscribers, leave only around 50 to 100k subscribers per backbone countrywide...

D
 
Alchemist said:
Joburg is already littered with cellphone masts and advertising billboards, surely there is a limit as to how much visual pollution Joburg can have?
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They can be blended into the surrounds. I am willing to accepts them on buildings etc.
 
OMW! It all fits so nicely! So basically, St. Theresa's Convent here in Sherwood is a Base Station!!! See now, if I just keep reading and reading the answers do eventually come heheh..

Who it belongs to is another matter. I claim it is the Muni and their so -called Smart Wireless option. But the close workings they exhibit with Telkom makes it questionable.. the white boxes ive whittered on about for AGES are Wireless yes... but with added extras....

I would love to hear from anyone else that finds themselves in a Test Zone as we have...? I mean right in the eye of the storm so to speak? I doubt more than one percent will feel any detrimental effects but none the less twould be wonderful to trade symptoms haha....:eek:

toady :D
 
damian24 said:
Seeing the list of companies having WiMax licences, well I suspect that oversell is going to be quite high. Perhaps we're lucky and all of them get an even spread of subscribers, leave only around 50 to 100k subscribers per backbone countrywide...
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With that kind of fill ratio on a WiMAX network, which typically requires a basestation every kilometre or so, anyone running the network is destined for bankruptcy, and quite quickly. We'd better hope that there are fewer licences, or we'll have lots of little Sentechs everywhere, just without the government to prop them up.

Worse still, the more licences, the lower the bandwidth each will receive, and the lower the speed offered. If there are ten licences, for example, each wouldn't even reach basic broadband speeds with the bandwidth available.
 
And what the cost involved!? i am sure people what a cheap,fast reliable internet connection!
 
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