But as I understand it you need to enlist half your neighbourhood before anything will happen.Understandable though.Who besides MTN,Lightspeed and Vodacom are you aware of in Rondebosch?
Ye exactly this, for 24 months, when that gets mentioned, people lose interest. They managed to get buy in Constantia because they sold the idea of running CCTV camera's throughout constantia, so residents there basically chipped in for last mile setup on their road to run a security camera, which was an easier sell.
I work in Observatory at Waverly Business Park, we're busy getting Vodacom to patch our company into DFA Fibre, but like I said earlier, its a 40K connection fee.
I've had backbone outside my house in Campground Road for about 8 months now, last month they ran it down Sanddown road. I spoke to one of the DFA techies that was onsite. Apparently DFA sells last mile access for about the same price, so the isp has to recoup that somehow, but you can also just pay for it yourself then there should be no 24 month lockin to recoup cost. So basically (cost of last mile)/(how many people are keen). Then you can go month-to-month on connectivity. He said no to quote him though lol, thats just how he thinks it would work logically.
I've thought about approaching the residents association, but I'm not sure its strong enough and Rondebosch is not a very tech savvy suburb like say Tableview or Durbanville.
MTN came out and said they would do last mile for Rondebosch about 2 months ago, but I've got very little faith in that company, but I think its subject to the same conditions.
Lightspeed is the only one that shows us on coverage map.
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