Free voice calls, movies on Tshwane Wi-Fi network

This pisses me off quite a bit.
Helen Zille has for ages now been promising that the WC and CT would be 'The Digital City in Africa' and WiFi would be rolled out everywhere.
And here we are months/years later, and as it turns out Tshwane has been quietly pulling ahead
 
Latest Hollywood movies? Yeah right. I dont think it will be free like the report (or heading of this thread) implicates.
 
JStrike said:
This pisses me off quite a bit.
Helen Zille has for ages now been promising that the WC and CT would be 'The Digital City in Africa' and WiFi would be rolled out everywhere.
And here we are months/years later, and as it turns out Tshwane has been quietly pulling ahead
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The City has pulled the plug on free Wi-Fi I'm Cape Town
 
JStrike said:
This pisses me off quite a bit.
Helen Zille has for ages now been promising that the WC and CT would be 'The Digital City in Africa' and WiFi would be rolled out everywhere.
And here we are months/years later, and as it turns out Tshwane has been quietly pulling ahead
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Pretoria FTW :D
 
Q the ETV voice.

"Today ... on Tshwane Wi-Fi ... Jean-Claude Van Damme in ..."
 
3Gee said:
The City has pulled the plug on free Wi-Fi I'm Cape Town
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No, they are still rolling it out. A hotspot just went up next to my building.
And the WC Gov is running trials in Delt, Atlantis and somewhere else.
But while they are running trials, the City of Tshwane is powering ahead.

You are probably thinking of the mesh network. That has been canceled
 
When will the Tshwane employees get time to work?

Oops, I forgot they don't work...
 
I had a look at where these Free wifi zones are:

http://www.tshwane.gov.za/Wifi/Pages/default.aspx said:
Hatfield, Church Square, Soshanguve, Mamelodi and the CBD.
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So yea... thanks for nothing.
 
FaSMaN said:
I had a look at where these Free wifi zones are:



So yea... thanks for nothing.
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I don't know Tshwane at all, but that list included the CBD... that is very impressive. The City Centres are pretty much all that is realistic to cover, and in my opinion, all that you should cover. If people want to live or work outside of high density nodes, then they can deal with the consequences.

Are those other areas (Hatfield, Church Square, Soshanguve, Mamelodi) also high density areas?
 
JStrike said:
I don't know Tshwane at all, but that list included the CBD... that is very impressive. The City Centres are pretty much all that is realistic to cover, and in my opinion, all that you should cover. If people want to live or work outside of high density nodes, then they can deal with the consequences.

Are those other areas (Hatfield, Church Square, Soshanguve, Mamelodi) also high density areas?
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Yeah, it is.

What irritates me more is that this was originally flagged as "not an middle-class product" - they were offering it free for checking email, whatsapp, facebook etc. on feature-type phones (obviously with Wifi).

Now all of a sudden it includes VOD? Gonna kill the network (and project) in my opinion...
 
ebendl said:
Yeah, it is.

What irritates me more is that this was originally flagged as "not an middle-class product" - they were offering it free for checking email, whatsapp, facebook etc. on feature-type phones (obviously with Wifi).

Now all of a sudden it includes VOD? Gonna kill the network (and project) in my opinion...
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Possibly. I guess it will depend of the backbone of the network
 
FaSMaN said:
I had a look at where these Free wifi zones are:

Originally Posted by http://www.tshwane.gov.za/Wifi/Pages/default.aspx

Hatfield, Church Square, Soshanguve, Mamelodi and the CBD.

So yea... thanks for nothing.
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Nice to see them giving some to the students, I reckon they could really benefit from this. Not sure if things have changed at Tuks, but when I was there in my final year (2012) they were still stingy with their data and students bearly had any data.

EDIT: And hey this is also just a start hopefully they have plans to expand the WIFI. Still a move towards the right direction.
 
quax said:
Nice to see them giving some to the students, I reckon they could really benefit from this. Not sure if things have changed at Tuks, but when I was there in my final year (2012) they were still stingy with their data and students bearly had any data.

EDIT: And hey this is also just a start hopefully they have plans to expand the WIFI. Still a move towards the right direction.
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My brother works at Tuks - the free wifi on campus is amazing. Uncapped (shaped though) and in the office he's connected to Tuks' multi-gbps network. He uses the wifi anywhere on campus on his phone and notebook, and it sounds as if you don't even need to be a student / lecturer / employee to log on.

I see (at least according to their Facebook page), Bronberg WISP is also involved: https://www.facebook.com/bronbergwisp/posts/294033294122587

(Or at least they are using their installation team).

The weird thing is that Bronberg WISP actually put UP their prices for their WISP a month ago... From R400 for 15GB per month to R500 for 15GB (excluding VAT). This is for a 4 Mbps connection (symmetrical though). Wish they'd stop building free networks and make mine cheaper...
 
I like the idea of the free onnet voice calls. Tshwane is winning for sure. Would work nicely if you and your buddies are in town
 
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