Did Telkom "develop" sufficient bandwidth?

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In view of various other postings, I'm asking the question:

If we had 5% 1MB/s ADSL penetration in the country tomorrow, would the infrastructure in the country be able to handle it?

Or is Telkom using high rates to hide the fact that they failed to invest sufficiently in bandwidth to service the country?
 
Good question...can't say I have an answer for that and I think you will have to look long and hard in order to find one. Cause if the answer is yes, it will be covered up like footprints in the sand after hightide has washed over them.
 
kaspaas : Not sure what you mean. There is fibre optics running all through the country, as well as what IS and UUNET have. They bandwidth is there. or are you refering to something else? The routing, etc?
 
I dont belive Telkom would, however I have seen them running around lately in the Sandton Area, laying what looks to be a lot of fiber.

I wonder if they are not doing this in any other areas as well ? anyone comment ? as the prepare to launch what will be 2mb ADSL etc later on next year as well as TV via Broadband etc.
 
JStrike said:
kaspaas : Not sure what you mean. There is fibre optics running all through the country, as well as what IS and UUNET have. They bandwidth is there. or are you refering to something else? The routing, etc?
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Very simply: Would the local infrastructure be able to handle 5% of all people with 1MB/s ADSL?

Or would the networks simply be overloaded?

It is no good if there is plenty of "dark" fibre without the required (expensive) equipment to light it and the techies to keep those fibres "enlightened".

I'm pretty sure that Telkom created a market where it could charge whatever it likes by simply not investing in infrastructure, but rather keeping shareholder pockets filled with excessive dividends.
 
kaspaas said:
In view of various other postings, I'm asking the question:

If we had 5% 1MB/s ADSL penetration in the country tomorrow, would the infrastructure in the country be able to handle it?

Or is Telkom using high rates to hide the fact that they failed to invest sufficiently in bandwidth to service the country?
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The way I understand it they have the bandwidth but it’s the cost of providing it. Apparently the international link is mostly owned by them and there is bandwidth just waiting to be used. Can’t quite remember where I read this but I know it was in one of those independent reports floating around here someplace. Soooooooooooooo if you don’t mind paying more for your already cheap service than I am sure they would be more than willing to give us some more to play with. :p
 
At 5% infrastructure penetration, a lot more providers would start offering local content, and local traffic would increase.
 
At Telkom's contention ratio's they could provie the entire African continent with multi-Mbps connections and still have 90% unused bandwidth. What was the ratio we heard last? Up to 125:1?
 
All I can say from January there seems to me will be many changes coming. Self providing??? A few ISP's hinted they are busy setting up their own infrastructures as from 2006 What does this mean??
 
TheRoDent said:
At 5% infrastructure penetration, a lot more providers would start offering local content, and local traffic would increase.
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Who wants to "google" kalehari,net, who wants to browse Mweb, who want to surf local only. You just have to google from a mweb home page for anything by selecting SA only and see the content and rubbish you get. Little information lots of sponsored sales crap and political brainwashing. No Thank's. If there was a single pipe that would bypass SA completely I will use that. Unless someone here can coax me where to get content of value locally, not oveseas cached content please
 
I don't know what on earth anyone would want localy.

Seriously though, for me even the Sweedish FreeBSD and Debian mirrors are twice as fast as the IS ones - and thats speaking even as an ISDSL user.
 
Hey there are some OK sites locally like Hellkom and MyADSL :D
 
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