DFA boosting Benoni with R75 million investment

In the metro area? :wtf:

Benoni's metro area is incredibly poor and made up of a few banks, Lakeside Mall that is a ghost-town these days and a few government departments. There are a handful of car dealerships, one Yankees take-away and some Chinese clothing and stolen electronics stores. What exactly are they trying to bolster? The only thriving businesses in the area are cocaine dealers and prostitutes.

Apex, just down the road on the other hand is a thriving business-centric area made up of factories and SMEs who have been solely reliant on Neotel's crap infrastructure in the area for some time now. Northmead has a more prosperous outlook from a business perspective if you ask me and Telkom are planning a fibre rollout there "soon."

There is absolutely no interest in fixing up the Benoni CBD from the powers that be and the surrounding areas are taking up the slack, so I really don't see the CBD being a priority. You're talking about an area made up of micro-companies, heavy crime-related problems and poverty; an area where many decent businesses migrated from a few years ago and nothing has since changed. The surrounding areas on the other hand can't even get a copper internet connection, regardless of the fact that many of them are far more affluent in comparison with the CBD. Maybe I'm naive about their business strategy here but I just don't understand the priority afforded to the CBD in this case...
 
DJ... said:
In the metro area? :wtf:

Benoni's metro area is incredibly poor and made up of a few banks, Lakeside Mall that is a ghost-town these days and a few government departments. There are a handful of car dealerships, one Yankees take-away and some Chinese clothing and stolen electronics stores. What exactly are they trying to bolster? The only thriving businesses in the area are cocaine dealers and prostitutes.

Apex, just down the road on the other hand is a thriving business-centric area made up of factories and SMEs who have been solely reliant on Neotel's crap infrastructure in the area for some time now. Northmead has a more prosperous outlook from a business perspective if you ask me and Telkom are planning a fibre rollout there "soon."

There is absolutely no interest in fixing up the Benoni CBD from the powers that be and the surrounding areas are taking up the slack, so I really don't see the CBD being a priority. You're talking about an area made up of micro-companies, heavy crime-related problems and poverty; an area where many decent businesses migrated from a few years ago and nothing has since changed. The surrounding areas on the other hand can't even get a copper internet connection, regardless of the fact that many of them are far more affluent in comparison with the CBD. Maybe I'm naive about their business strategy here but I just don't understand the priority afforded to the CBD in this case...
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I dont know why they mention metro when i have followed the cable from the surrounding areas outside of CBD, Ie. Rynfield,Uys Road, Birch road, etc....

If I notice the difference it will take about a month cause copper gets stolen near Rynfield Terrace every month thus making it impossible to do monthly shopping up the road.

Agreed though SMEs have suffered the most as there absolutely no cables for them.My old mans business runs Iburst(he would love to through it away) but since signal strength is better than neotel he has no option.
 
When they say "Metro area", do they mean Ekurhuleni? Which Benoni is part of?

I live in Ekurhuleni (not Benoni) and they pulled in fiber to my suburb 3 months ago.
 
I didn't know DJ... was from Brakpan/Benoni area. LOL
I wonder if he wasn't involved in this some how.
 
altros said:
Please look at what was and is available now in all these areas and further afield: http://goo.gl/mDKag
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Ignoring the godawful grammar, spelling and layout of the presentation, the points you raise are terrific. Honestly they are. However: can you address the points I raised regarding your decision to target the Benoni CBD (which is the way I have interpreted it)? See I just don't think that backyard mechanic and his neighbour (the fluorescent bulb company) require 33MBPS internet connection.

You're upgrading micro-companies (whereas the true SMEs are 2 kilometres down the road), drug peddlers and prostitutes...
 
DJ... said:
Maybe I'm naive about their business strategy here but I just don't understand the priority afforded to the CBD in this case...
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I think you did misunderstand their business a bit. DFA provides fibre capacity to the big boys (cellphone & major internet companies etc) on a national scale. So one won't really be able to extrapolate their strategy from the local SME & factories. Its just a completely different scale.
 
HavocXphere said:
I think you did misunderstand their business a bit. DFA provides fibre capacity to the big boys (cellphone & major internet companies etc) on a national scale. So one won't really be able to extrapolate their strategy from the local SME & factories. Its just a completely different scale.
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Ah right, that makes a little more sense then. Thanks...
 
DJ... said:
Ah right, that makes a little more sense then. Thanks...
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Besides which... what about the LSM 8-10 areas of Benoni of which there are many? Consider the Ebotse Golf Estate at which Telkom has failed to lay lines in 5 years? 350 - 500 LSM 10 homes there could present excellent profits over the years to come.

I don't think the pull in Benoni is about the businesses I think it's more about the amount of wealthy folk living there
 
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