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New rules for data speeds in South Africa

Internet service providers in South Africa must provide their customers with average download speeds of at least 5Mbps and average upload speeds of 1.5Mbps.

That is according to the End-User and Subscriber Service Charter Fourth Amendment Regulations, gazetted by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) on Tuesday, 28 March 2023.
 
Jan said:
New rules for data speeds in South Africa

Internet service providers in South Africa must provide their customers with average download speeds of at least 5Mbps and average upload speeds of 1.5Mbps.

That is according to the End-User and Subscriber Service Charter Fourth Amendment Regulations, gazetted by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) on Tuesday, 28 March 2023.
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In addition, the round-trip time for data delivery — also known as latency — should measure an average of 100 milliseconds or less.
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Thanks ANC. Finally going to get those sub 100 gaming pings to the EU. You'll have my vote in 2024. /s
 
Cell C doesn't qualify as an ISP. They give you a handset and bill you each month....thats where their obligation ends.
Then its up to you to find the 3 rooftops nationwide where you if you stand on your friends back and raise your hand at a 45 degree angle ,you might just get internet access.
 
Jan said:
New rules for data speeds in South Africa

Internet service providers in South Africa must provide their customers with average download speeds of at least 5Mbps and average upload speeds of 1.5Mbps.

That is according to the End-User and Subscriber Service Charter Fourth Amendment Regulations, gazetted by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) on Tuesday, 28 March 2023.
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seems to be swaped
 
Cannot even provide electricity or water - wants ISPs to break the laws of physics to meet an arbitrary number they decided on.
gotcha.
 
Sub 100ms latency.
Nice, plate tectonics to the rescue, now we just wait for the (re)formation of Pangea Proxima and we're good to go.
The ANC government motto: "Success isn't something you strive for and achieve, it's something you regulate"

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All I can see these restrictions doing is preventing some rollouts from happening, for example, say you're an ISP and want to provide internet in a rural area over Starlink. Oh gosh, the latency will be more than 100ms. Project canned.
Nice work ICASA.
 
Who smoked what when creating this?

Latency... To what?
What webpage? On what server?
Webpage success rate... Again how is it measured to which websites? An ISP only controls it's own network and it's peers - not the server network.

These regulations should be struck down as technical incomplete.

I mean I can make ANY ISP fail no matter how good they are by changing parameters that are not specified.
 
Is it me or does the article fail to mention is it local latency or international latency? I can see one of my customers already bitching about the PSN network....
 
This article made me think of something, is it possible to get latency lower than 100ms for EU/USA if there was better cables/routing?
 
Stillie said:
This article made me think of something, is it possible to get latency lower than 100ms for EU/USA if there was better cables/routing?
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No. Without any overheads for equipment hops, routing delays etc etc it will still be more than 100ms Cape Town to London.
 
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