How the DA will make Internet access cheaper

We need a national internet program to provide internet at cost to citizens. Private companies aren’t gonna do it out of their own.
 
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Synaesthesia said:
We need a national internet program to provide internet at cost to citizens. Private companies aren’t gonna do it out of their own.
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That is why the largest reduction in internet price in this country's miserable history has happened when Telkom and its government monopoly started getting out the market. And it happened whilst those evil companies were making a profit.
For nearly a decade after ADSL was launched in 2002 the price for a gigabyte of data remained largely unchanged at around R70 to R80 per GB. These high prices, coupled with the high bandwidth costs at the time, made it inconceivable that South Africa could have affordable, uncapped broadband.
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https://mybroadband.co.za/news/broa...uth-africa-affordable-uncapped-broadband.html
To give you a comparison, that data is so cheap now that Afrihost, a private evil capitalistic company can give it away.

https://www.afrihost.com/landing/freegb/

Seriously, go take a free helicopter ride.
 
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Synaesthesia said:
We need a national internet program to provide internet at cost to citizens. Private companies aren’t gonna do it out of their own.
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It will be too expensive. Government will immediately appoint a board of six people, each demanding R3 million per annum salary. Thereafter they will appoint 200 or 300 administrators at an average salary of R800 000 per annum. Add to that the cost of managers, support personnel and office space and 'cost' will be far higher than what the private sector can do it for.

To add insult to injury, everything will go well for a year after which the wheels will come off and we will no longer have internet in South Africa.

Have you not learnt anything from the SABC, Eskom, SAA and Denel f-ups? The government is incapable of managing any operation.
 
I don't see anything that will make access cheaper or make it easier to roll out without duplicating infrastructure.

konfab said:
That is why the largest reduction in internet price in this country's miserable history has happened when Telkom and its government monopoly started getting out the market. And it happened whilst those evil companies were making a profit.

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/broa...uth-africa-affordable-uncapped-broadband.html
To give you a comparison, that data is so cheap now that Afrihost, a private evil capitalistic company can give it away.

https://www.afrihost.com/landing/freegb/

Seriously, go take a free helicopter ride.
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He is correct. In the 17 years that Telkom's monopoly has been over internet access is still in the region of R500 pm. So that's like a reduction of 20% at most. If private enterprise can't seem to do it and government can't do it we are truly ****ed.
 
Swa said:
I don't see anything that will make access cheaper or make it easier to roll out without duplicating infrastructure.


He is correct. In the 17 years that Telkom's monopoly has been over internet access is still in the region of R500 pm. So that's like a reduction of 20% at most. If private enterprise can't seem to do it and government can't do it we are truly ****ed.
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What are you talking about?


https://mybroadband.co.za/news/adsl/170047-adsl-data-prices-in-south-africa-2002-to-2016.html

Telkom launched its first commercial ADSL products in August 2002. At the time, a 512kbps ADSL service cost R680 per month.
ADSL subscribers also had to pay R219 per month for 3GB of data, without the ability to easily top-up their accounts.
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So in total that is R899 per month for 3GB data.

3GB of mobile data from Afrihost, which is orders of magnitude faster and is mobile is R155 per month.

So a faster and more useful version of the same product is 17% of the price.

That is not a "20% reduction at most"
 
we so far Behind of the rest of the world in internet, I doubt we will be able to catch up.

blame it on tenda's and corruption and looting, and backwards 1950's thinking.

case in point, Skype, it was illegal until a few years back,
and bitcoin, only now are they deciding to regulate it, when its been around since 2008.

can we catch up? can the DA win an election? can pigs fly?
 
Synaesthesia said:
We need a national internet program to provide internet at cost to citizens. Private companies aren’t gonna do it out of their own.
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You need to go read up on most government led connectivity initiatives before posting genius suggestions eg.

https://www.timeslive.co.za/politic...cated-in-dodgy-r17bn-joburg-broadband-tender/

This is only 900km and is not complete and a massive financial fail...

What we do need is an industry regulator (ICASA) that actually does its job to ensure free market economics can ensure availability and a lower cost to consumers. How long did Telkom rule ADSL that prevented other players to unbundle the local loop or provide naked DSL?
 
Well our internet is still way too expensive. My friend from Kenya can buy 10gb there for the price of 1gb here.
 
konfab said:
What are you talking about?


https://mybroadband.co.za/news/adsl/170047-adsl-data-prices-in-south-africa-2002-to-2016.html


So in total that is R899 per month for 3GB data.

3GB of mobile data from Afrihost, which is orders of magnitude faster and is mobile is R155 per month.

So a faster and more useful version of the same product is 17% of the price.

That is not a "20% reduction at most"
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There were cheaper options. I couldn't give a rats ass how data costs have "fallen", the entry prices are still too high and a big barrier. Mobile data you say? Sure, Vodacom 1MB at R2. Good entry level price no?
 
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