High-Speed Broadband Bandwidth Divide

However, Mr Elizalde warned that a number of factors are likely to challenge adoption, not the least is the fact that aside from the benefit of accessing video over the internet, many consumers will not see a need to pay for higher bandwidth when there are no applications that currently require it.
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As if the SABC was not reason enough. Sorry boys, my 4meg already struggles with just trying to stream Youtube HD, can you imagine a household with multiple net devices all trying to work?

This kind of silly comment drives me nuts, like Neotels shock that uncapped people are using a lot of bandwidth when "everyone should be happy with a few gigs a month". :mad:
 
SA?

Reading the headline I thought here in SA in three to five years 50 Mb/sec
Residental Ha Ha My 4Mb line DL 700Kb max what a dream.
 
Telkom & Guvermint & ultimately greed will leave us on the wrong side of that divide. It's not a question of wanting proper affordable broadband any more, we NEED it.

Step 1: We need to get charged per line speed as the rest of the world & not per megabyte
 
This article clearly has nothing to do with the South African market. We're still waiting for broadband here, nevermind high-speed broadband.

The divide in South Africa is actually more between high-latency unreliable wireless internet connections and low-latency reliable ADSL internet connections.

With Telkom and Neotel both having seemingly given up on the fixed-line market it seems we are going to be stuck with wireless connections for a long time to come.
 
LabAnimal said:
3 - 5 years... seriously doubt we'll be part of this!
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Agree. Look at some of the SA broadband articles from 2005 and 2006 and what the expectations was at that stage for 2009 and 2010. I honestly doubt we will see anything far above 8MB speeds in 3-5 years time.
 
who gives a damn? what the hell is someone in a rural area going to want with super high speed broadband let alone pay for high speed broadband?
 
Oi, when will the people in the Telecoms industry realise that talking about a service, technology or future technology does not make it a reality. You actually have to get up and do something to make it happen.

If I use this situation for instance, my internet has not gotten one bit faster since the release of this or any of the other "hollow promises" articles about how fast the internet will become. Neither has my internet become any more affordable since the landing of SEACOM, inspite of all the articles promising that prices will plumit, and all kind of leaders patting each other on the back.
 
This isn't related to South Africa at all!
In fact, the last time I spoke to Telkom to request the put repeaters between myself and the exchange so I can actually even achieve a 4mb link, they said it's not in their plans, they're building towers in the area and I can move to 3G once it's available. i.e. They are completely giving up on enhancing fixed line infrastructure for DSL users.
So from the looks of things, we've gone from having 1 relatively crap fixed line provider to moving to having no fixed line provider.
Guavamunt, hurry the #@$* up and implement LLU or we're going to be truly screwed!
 
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