HAVE licence, will go wireless. Jozi

Yeah Telkom, wave some money Bye Bye..

And don't worry Telkom, you'll be waving bye bye to much more money in the next year (I Pray!)
 
/me too... hopefully Pretoria/Tshwane will be next in line... :D

Now my only hope is that these big cities can get hold of international bandwidth at reasonable tariffs... if they can do so and not have to pay exorbitant tariffs to teklom, then we're good to go.

Hopefully Teklom will have the mother of all annus horribiluses next year... :D that will be the cherry on top... AND dip into the red (very, very deeply into the red, so deep they'll need deep-sea diving apparatus...)
 
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Well if we can get 4mb connection into our homes at next to nothing and have 4mb local traffic and then a slower link to international say 384 or 512 speeds that would be fantastic.
 
Uhmmmmmmm.... where do you people think the cities will get international bandwidth from????

This is good news locally but overseas bandwidth, she aint cheap when baught from Telkom....
 
antowan said:
Uhmmmmmmm.... where do you people think the cities will get international bandwidth from????

This is good news locally but overseas bandwidth, she aint cheap when baught from Telkom....
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To my mind this is beside the point. The "feel-good" bit of this is that Telkom lose money, and a truckload of it as well. Jozi needs this connectivity at an inter-branch level, for them the international is meaningless.

Need a bit of international? OK - add a 128K Diginet line (or a 1024 ADSL) to the network and share it.
 
Hopefully, as soon as the ECA comes in, the SNO or one of the cell networks will wake up and provide something.

Theoretically Sentech can already actually.
 
Moederloos said:
To my mind this is beside the point. The "feel-good" bit of this is that Telkom lose money, and a truckload of it as well. Jozi needs this connectivity at an inter-branch level, for them the international is meaningless.

Need a bit of international? OK - add a 128K Diginet line (or a 1024 ADSL) to the network and share it.
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Yup Telkom loses money and takes out of the consumers pocket, the public will make up this deficit for Telkom, one way or another we will end up paying for it.
 
Nickste said:
Come on Cape Town. Put your bongs down for a few minutes, and get us hooked up :)

Cheers, Nick
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the process is under way and has been for close to a year...going very slowly as far as i know

sunsoffun said:
come on durban.... when are you guys going to see the light
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afaik tenders for the municipal system in sunny durban have been solicited...there should be some info floating around on the city web site
 
64-kilobyte Telkom fixed line to a 100-megabyte full duplex
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Thats an incorrect statement as it should read "64-kilobit Telkom fixed line to a 100-megabit full duplex"
Btw.. Durban Metro's tenders went out last week, check on the Tekweni website.
 
alchamy said:
Yup Telkom loses money and takes out of the consumers pocket, the public will make up this deficit for Telkom, one way or another we will end up paying for it.
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While true for the most part, the continued pressure on Telkom is making unjustified price increases difficult. Including ADSL in the "basket of services" will make insane pricing here more difficult.

It is like the old adage: "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time!"
 
antowan said:
Uhmmmmmmm.... where do you people think the cities will get international bandwidth from????
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International satellite operators like Deutsche Telekom ask Knysna Muni,
so where do they get their 2 Mb pipe
 
Eventually, should regulations allow for it, the City will be able to provide access to the internet to end-users - residents - possibly at People's Centres and public libraries.
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I assmue this means their current license does not allow them to provide service to their residents (customers). So essentially its a closed network to interconnect all their buildings and business/operational systems.
 
Roman4604 said:
I assmue this means their current license does not allow them to provide service to their residents (customers). So essentially its a closed network to interconnect all their buildings and business/operational systems.
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Its one step closer ;-) only a small gap between corporates, then the average joe... go jozi!
 
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