Helen Zille: 100Mbps broadband for everyone

[QuintonB]

100Mbps broadband for everyone: Helen Zille

Cape Town metro residents can look forward to high speed broadband access within the next 8 years

 

[unskinnybob]

Looking for work in Cape Town...

 

[MrNeedforSpeed]

I'm already on a 100Mbps connection in JHB ......at work

 

[ajules]

Would this be done without using Telkoms infrastructure?

 

[Zyraz]

The DA certainly values education and information availability, which is the exact opposite from the current government that thrives and survives on the vote of the uneducated.

 

[FNfal]

Sounds good

 

[Nerfherder]

This is like being on Oprah

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

I'm already on a 100Mbps connection in JHB ......at work

Internal LAN connection speed doesn't count

 

[MrNeedforSpeed]

Internal LAN connection speed doesn't count

I know...just had to say it

 

[abandonallhope]

Mrs Zille , I hope you understand that anybody who follows telecommunications news is a little jaded and cynical by all the promises that have been broken and forgotten, so for this reason it would be so very good to see something more substantial than words.

 

[Roadrunner]

Wish politicians would refrain from making such promises.

A lot happens in that timeframe and her successors may completely change direction with this.

 

[yebocan]

question is boys, is it doable...??

With all the "dark" city owned infrastructure, if the political will is there, is it do able?

 

[The_Ogre]

I already have fiber running running past my house, can I please just dig it up and connect my network to it aunty Helen?

 

[])ragon_\/oid]

Yet another promise? Bet you that date will be pushed forward to 2030

 

[Swift-wp]

Home sweet home. How I wish I was still living there...

 

[Lydon]

Yet another promise? Bet you that date will be pushed forward to 2030

Things actually happen down here.

 

[The Trutherizer]

Cape Town is the best town

 

[Niren_M]

Looking for work in Cape Town...

Exactly, while the WC moves leaps and bounds ahead the rest of the country is treading.

 

[Sherbang]

This is good news. What parts of Cape Town fit into the Cape Town metropolitan area though?

 

[The_Assimilator]

Within the next two years, as part of a pilot project, we aim to create the largest mesh network in the world that will have connected all households in Khayelitsha, Mitchell’s Plain and Saldanha Bay...

Christ, Zille, if you were any use as a politician you'd know giving the people what they need is the way to get elected. And the majority of people in Khayelitsha, Mitchell’s Plain and Saldanha Bay do not NEED fast Internet, or in fact ANY Internet access at all!

Why not create the pilot project in an area that NEEDS and WANTS fast Internet so that people will actually pay for it and use it, while building the houses and infrastructure in the aforementioned areas that NEED them?

The DA gets my vote... for stupidity.