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Hi
I run a large South African Dating site and hence have a big interest in South Africa and its adapting Broadband. I currently live in the USA though and when I read about whats happening there its amazing there are internet users still around. My dad had to wait nearly 6 months to get his ADSL line, capping the bandwith is unbelievable by normal standards. I read someones complaint that a youtube video took 22 min to view. When I last was visiting this year, I couldnt access my USA bank acount as the site came back saying the connection was too slow. I currently have cable internet in the USA, I pay $29 a month (in a package with my tv) otherwise it would be $45 a month. For that I get 6Mb down and 728 up. There is no cap. I needed to get a large file from work oneday so I downloaded 20GB it took about 6 hours. I use the internet for booking restaurants, ordering food and other shopping, maps, its even easier to get online and get a phone number of a person or shop rather than using a phone book. I use voip for my phone and my calls around the us and canada are all free (this is included in my package) I pay 50c (South african cents) to call phones in south africa.
Until telkom loses the monopoly and there is true competition this can never happen in South Africa.
But u can always hope
Mark
pr@batcard.com
http://www.batcard.com
South Africa in one Glance
I run a large South African Dating site and hence have a big interest in South Africa and its adapting Broadband. I currently live in the USA though and when I read about whats happening there its amazing there are internet users still around. My dad had to wait nearly 6 months to get his ADSL line, capping the bandwith is unbelievable by normal standards. I read someones complaint that a youtube video took 22 min to view. When I last was visiting this year, I couldnt access my USA bank acount as the site came back saying the connection was too slow. I currently have cable internet in the USA, I pay $29 a month (in a package with my tv) otherwise it would be $45 a month. For that I get 6Mb down and 728 up. There is no cap. I needed to get a large file from work oneday so I downloaded 20GB it took about 6 hours. I use the internet for booking restaurants, ordering food and other shopping, maps, its even easier to get online and get a phone number of a person or shop rather than using a phone book. I use voip for my phone and my calls around the us and canada are all free (this is included in my package) I pay 50c (South african cents) to call phones in south africa.
Until telkom loses the monopoly and there is true competition this can never happen in South Africa.
But u can always hope
Mark
pr@batcard.com
http://www.batcard.com
South Africa in one Glance