Is broadband 256 Kbps?

I think 2Mbs is a good start....

DoC is a bunch of fools!! 256k lol. Talk about setting the bar low. They are too afraid of failing to meet their targets, except they don't realise they have already failed SA!
 
The even sadder part is that this is the DoC's target for 2019.
 
It's because telkom's slowest speed is 384.

I believe 1meg down and 512 up is a good start.
 
1mb download at the very minimum. That is an attainable goal for SA right now. 4mb should be the next goal by end 2012. Chances of that actually happening? Next to zero
 
wow....256k in 2019....maybe i will be able to open up mybroadband in about a minute if im lucky, yet alone Google ha ha ha, i mean really...every year websites get bigger and bigger, and now they expect us to open up sites on a 256k line in 2019? i feel sorry for those who try go on youtube in 2019 with a 256k line, 1 x HD 2 minute clip = 25minute buffer time ha ha ha
 
The DoC is making itself rapidly irrelevant.

The failure of the implementation of relevant communications policies causes industry to do their own thing in spite of the DoC/ICASA monster trying to control all.

The failure to implement LLU in good time, will make LLU irrelevant. Industry is already implementing hispeed connections to complexes etc. for cost effective connectivity. Mobile tech is already much faster than fixed line (though expensive!).

Telkom 10Mb/s ADSL will soon be irrelevant as wireless technologies develop and become more cost effective.

The lesson: Forget about the DoC/ICASA/Telkom/ANC failures and focus on where the difference can be made. The companies that have the will to provide proper InternetConnectivity.
 
By 2019 the de facto standard will be at least 20Mbps forced by businesses. To say that "broadband" is 256kbps clearly indicates that apartheid-style thinking is still very much in evidence. Also depends on one's definition of "broad" when referencing "broadband". The de facto standard in the UK is 10Mbps already, with the Far East in excess of this.

I'm also QBE but not in NMB.
 
Good Morning

This is the year 2010
We still talking about 256 Kbps
When are we EVER going to be using a mature broadband service?
4Mbps in SA?

Hope the FUTURE is near broadband in SA

Wireless is the future for sure!

Have a great day everyone!
 
People will forever debate and change their idea about what broadband is. Why not drop the term completely and simply call it by what it is, e.g. a 256 Kbs line?
 
I did a Wikipedia search for "what is the standard speed for broadband" and this is what I got:
Although various minimum bandwidths have been used in definitions of broadband, ranging up from 64 kbit/s up to 2.0 Mbit/s[1], the 2006 OECD report[2] is typical by defining broadband as having download data transfer rates equal to or faster than 256 kbit/s, while the United States (US) Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as of 2010, defines "Basic Broadband" as data transmission speeds of at least 4 megabits per second (Mbps), or 4,000,000 bits per second, downstream (from the Internet to the user’s computer) and 1 Mbps upstream (from the user’s computer to the Internet). [3] The trend is to raise the threshold of the broadband definition as the marketplace rolls out faster services.[4]
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Source: Wikipedia

I guess they have a point?
My ignorant brain does not seem to agree though.

S
 
Can only shake my head in bewilderment.

It feels like we're farting into the wind here. Are our "industry players" not giving input into these debates where it matters i.e. to ICASA and the DoC? Carrying on about it here on MyBB makes not one jot of difference.

Sigh....
 
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