Google SA plans big broadband drive

[Tux]

Google vs Telkom..
There's a fight I'd pay to see.

 

[bobby.quinne]

Google vs Telkom..
There's a fight I'd pay to see.

No fight really...the US corporate chaps know how to play harder at business than we do. You can be assured Telkom would manage to find a new and inventive way to bungle anything they tried to put out to compete against such a player as Google.

 

[fskmh]

Why would the SA government listen to a multi-billion dollar company that's predominantly white? These guys didn't do their homework, did they?

Government doesn't listen to anyone, period.

 

[Tux]

No fight really...the US corporate chaps know how to play harder at business than we do. You can be assured Telkom would manage to find a new and inventive way to bungle anything they tried to put out to compete against such a player as Google.

perzactly.. Would be worth quite a few laughs

 

[ic]

Masie said that he will leverage the strong Google brand to engage with people like the Minister of Communications and participate at cabinet level to clearly show the economic and social benefits of pervasive broadband.

Meeting with Poison Ivy expected to go something like this:

So, Mr Masie, tell me about this "Google" of which you speak, what is it?

Let me answer that dearly beloved madame minister whose feet I wash & kiss.

Google is on our list of "people who do not look like us".

Oh, right, so the meeting is over then.

//calls security from rotary dial phone - courtesy of Telkodemonopolies
Please escort Mr Masie from the building immediately!

 

[ShaunSA]

Maybe Ivy will pay attention to the Mauritian Minister...

"How can it be that SA comes fifth on the continent and 86th in the world? There's something wrong going on there. I've suggested to SA's communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri that we get together to discuss how Mauritius got it right. We're happy to share,” he says./QUOTE]

http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/telecoms/2007/0711191034.asp?S=All Africa News&A=AFN&O=FRGN

 

[UglyKidJoe]

Maybe Ivy will pay attention to the Mauritian Minister...

"How can it be that SA comes fifth on the continent and 86th in the world? There's something wrong going on there. I've suggested to SA's communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri that we get together to discuss how Mauritius got it right. We're happy to share,” he says./QUOTE]

http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/telecoms/2007/0711191034.asp?S=All Africa News&A=AFN&O=FRGN

Ivy won't even listen to the world bank, so I doubt she's going to listen to the Mauritian minister.

Geez, how cool it would be to have him on charge here! That's exactly the kind of thinking we like...

 

[ic]

Poison Ivy & Stalin-Mafole are certified card-carrying idiots, and there is no reasoning with an idiot - unless you're prepared to have a lobotomy.

 

[bekdik]

[email protected] said...
No comment re local hosting The MYAdsl folks went ahead and published and article without the current facts. It is unfortunate but I will never again comment on or participate in anything MYadsl related.

January 21, 2008 10:08 AM

From Stafford's blog.

 

[ic]

From Stafford's blog.

Where exactly? - the only Google search result for that exact text is your post in this thread.

 

[bekdik]

Where exactly? - the only Google search result for that exact text is your post in this thread.

Well hidden:

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6227122375157978502&postID=1700309477680436226&pli=1

 

[ic]

Well hidden:

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6227122375157978502&postID=1700309477680436226&pli=1

Hmmm I knew I should have asked antowan for the video copy of the presentations at the MyBroadband Conference last year - in this case Stafford Masie's presentation - I seem to recall the promise that Google SA would provide locally hosted services, sad that this seems not to be the case anymore, and a pity that Stafford Masie appears to have terminated communications - how else are we to know what Google SA's plans are for the future???