Excellent Announcement by the DoC!

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Hi folks

If you have not read the new policy announce by the Department of Communications please visit the news section (http://www.myadsl.co.za) and have a look. This is great news!

RPM
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<font color="blue">Currently, value added network services can only be provided through Telkom therefore we need to provide choice. I have now provided that:

As of 1 February 2005 value added network services may also be provided by means of telecommunications facilities other than those provided by Telkom and the Second National Operator or any of them.</font id="blue">

If I understand this correctly and if there is no big license cost implication - then this is great news.

I think we can shout hooray prematurely [:D][:)][8D]
 
Full text has been posted at http://www.internet.org.za/doc-min-announce-2-sept.html

It seems this is going to open up a heck of a lot more than just VoIP.
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by asmith</i>
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It seems this is going to open up a heck of a lot more than just VoIP.
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Yep - the revolution is upon us [:D]
It's gonna be a busy week-end for some ISP's. Would hate to have just completed my strategic planning before this announcement if I was an ISP [;)]
 
This news is great, but it almost feels unreal, like I'm in a dream.

Great News, but why does it always take so loooong. The state must realise that websites like ours will always speculate while Government is Apparently Stalling. What can they expect?
At least one of the battles is won. Now to go for the other fish.

BTW, when is Telkom supposed to pay the VANS Fine of 1.7 Billion. Oops, I suppose Telkom has 1.7 billion attorneys pleading their case, that drags on forever. I just hope by the time they eventually pay the fine, I don't own a Telkom Phone Line.
It feels so nice to say "I don't own a Telkom Phone Line". I must get used to it.
I have a lifetime of knowing one thing/one supplier. It will take some getting used to.

BTTB on Phone: "Hello is that the SNO?"
SNO Operator: "Yes Sir, How can I be of excellent service to you?" *big Grin*
BTTB on Phone: "I need a new phone with ADSL."
SNO Operator: "Yes Sir. Let me check. Erm, as it is we have a operator in your area now. He is being delayed, but should be their in 30 minutes."


<b><hr noshade size="1"></b><font size="2"><font color="red"><b>You can take Telkom out of the Post Office but you can't take the Post Office out of Telkom.</b></font id="red"></font id="size2">
 
Hi Karnaugh

This is a direct press release by the Ministry of Communications. I am quite certain this will be in the general press tomorrow…

Regards,

RPM
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Absolutely fantastic news. At last the government has pulled their head out of the sand and hopefully soon we'll have some options.


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United we stand!
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**** i woke up this morning and the article was still there ... great news been waiting 10years to year this ...
 
Excellent news. But why oh why all effective 1 Feb 2005. Get your vassies out okes, Telscum is gonna rape us for at least another 6 months.

Of course I don't look busy.....I did it right the first time.
 
I'm soory to be a bearer of bad tidings, but I'm afraid that until something major is done to our internet backbone, <b>you can kiss all our precious bandwidth goodbye</b> - local and international.

VoIP is going to require more dedicated bandwidth than P2P, streaming audio and email combined.

This is good news for Transtel and the Escom telecoms people, but how much international bandwidth do you think the MyWireless users are going to have on 1 Feb 2005?

Please someone tell me I'm wrong!
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Myrrdin</i>
<br />Excellent news. But why oh why all effective 1 Feb 2005. Get your vassies out okes, Telscum is gonna rape us for at least another 6 months.

Of course I don't look busy.....I did it right the first time.
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You can use it now, it doubt very much if any action would be taken if you were caught.

I can see the end of Infinitcall though....
 
Their is a group of bussinesses (IS, WBS aka iBurst, Sentech, I think) that is currently trying to force Telkom (through ICASA) to sell them bandwidth at wholesale prices. The SAT3 cable is only at 35% use, so there is much more to spare... Telkom is just pretending that they don't have international bandwidth to inflate prices. The aternative is satelite, or another cable (which might be legal now).
 
I think we need to analyse each of the DoC announcements to see what it will mean in reality.
I'll get the ball rolling:
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Self-provision and Greater Choice for Mobile Operators
Mobile Cellular Operators are not allowed by the existing law to provide their own fixed lines or acquire them from any provider other than Telkom and/or a public switched telecommunications service provider. This has caused mobile operators to be totally reliant on what Telkom charges them for provision of such fixed lines to interconnect. It also is one of the contributors to prevailing high costs. I have now provided that:
As of 1 February 2005 Mobile operators may utilise any fixed lines that may be required for the provision of the service including fixed lines made available by Telkom or any other person providing a public switched telecommunication service.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Does this mean that cell networks can build their own private fixed line infrastructure? Who can provide a "public switched telecommunication service" besides Telkom and the SNO? I'm thinking cell operators can now start using Transtel and Esitel networks for relay?

<font color="blue">Telkom needs a leash, ICASA needs some guts, and the </font id="blue"><font color="red">SA consumer</font id="red"><font color="blue"> needs to make it happen</font id="blue">
 
I really hope we had some small influence in the making of these decisions, though I doubt the DoC would ever admit to it.
 
martin, I think we did. Maybe not directly, but if it wasn't for MyADSL, We wouldn't have been able to gather so much information (regarding Telkom ripping us off), and I (and others) wouldn't have written to political parties (and Carte Blanche). I think that a community like this makes us realise that we are not the only ones feeling the way we do.

lewstherin, I don't think that mobile operators can build their own fixed line infrastructure, but say for instance they have two towers on a big farm, the farmer can sell them a line connecting the two.
 
this is brown news for telkom and 2005 is not tht far away 3 more mnths ""Does this mean that cell networks can build their own private fixed line infrastructure? i think this is wots gna happen imagine all the competition which inturn leads to cheap cheap checp cost on ne comm...

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