Is EASSy a lame duck?

Wulff further warned that EASSy is falling increasingly under the control of monopolistic operators like Telkom SA,,,,
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A basic South African – Djibouti link may however serve Telkom’s African ISP aspirations, which is significant if one considers their recent R 142.6 Million purchase of Africa Online.
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haha .. where is Ivy, she needs a good kick.
 
Kiss it (EASSy) good bye IMHO.

There are too many greedy people/companies who wants a piece of the pie.Too many profits will drop etc... so they will kill EASSy even before it starts.
 
There are too many greedy people/companies who wants a piece of the pie.Too many profits will drop etc... so they will kill EASSy even before it starts
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And there you have it, no hope for us in SA. Best we all leave.
 
If telkom controls it, there is no hope of getting anything out of that cable and a good rate, being it data or cost.
 
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The bottom line is that we need effective competition that is free of the TELKOM virus.

Only when there is an independent competing directly with TELKOM will we see any real improvement.

Sadly though our government is determined to protect TELKOM and their investment in that company at all costs.

Kenya goes it alone, we should do the same thing, without TELKOM.
 
Ok.. Me like everyone is fed up of High Prices. So there are a few options here.

1. We march to Palamint and protest this.

2. Get a partition singed but 30 000 people and present it to the UN Council and ask them for some help.

We need to get people from outside the country to help as nothing will ever happen with the govement (They are to slack).


This is my 5 cents

Cheers
BB :)
 
TelkomUseless said:
There are too many greedy people/companies who wants a piece of the pie.Too many profits will drop etc... so they will kill EASSy even before it starts.
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Agreed. Eassy, oops, N-BIN was doomed from the start. Africa is all about control, Eassy all about freedom. Governments want to monopolise the cable but NEPAD won't let that happen. Neither party will budge, so round and round we go, unable to reach an agreement. Multiply this effect with the number of countries involved in the project and it's quite evident this will go nowhere.

I applaud Kenya for seeing this early on and starting up their own initiative while "the biggest economy in Africa" and NEPAD keep flogging their dead horse. Go, Africa, go.

Best case scenario for Eassy is it dies before it ever begins. Worst case, NEPAD gives in, governments get exclusivity and history repeats itself.

We need either InfraCo or Neotel to build a cable and (be forced to) sell bandwidth at cost.
 
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well if they want the world cup they better sort it out ;) ... SA communications department had to give FIFA guarantees about telecommunications infrastructure for 2010 according to FIFA specifications. SA's current bandwidth from the existing submarine cables SAT2 SAT3 and SAFE (connecting the tip of Africa with Europe & Asia is not enough!
The EASSY cable from SA to the Middle East supposed to be completed by 2008 will make up the required bandwidth for 2010. If delays occur it will roll out beginning 2009 towards mid 2009 :rolleyes:

.. we're cutting it pretty damn close! :D
 
:) like with everything else 2010 related. If eassy does not happen it will open a nice oppurtunity for Reliant to build their cable.
 
you guys are falling more and more and more behind!!!! :( here in the UK they are launching 100mb line in few months for 25 pounds a month (HD tv unlimited unshapped) and to think france is already getting there 2.5 gb fibre lines ready!!! theres no hope for you!!!:(
 
DOOMIE61 said:
you guys are falling more and more and more behind!!!! :( here in the UK they are launching 100mb line in few months for 25 pounds a month (HD tv unlimited unshapped) and to think france is already getting there 2.5 gb fibre lines ready!!! theres no hope for you!!!:(
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Thanks for pointing out the obvious. :o
 
liancat said:
well if they want the world cup they better sort it out ;) ... SA communications department had to give FIFA guarantees about telecommunications infrastructure for 2010 according to FIFA specifications. SA's current bandwidth from the existing submarine cables SAT2 SAT3 and SAFE (connecting the tip of Africa with Europe & Asia is not enough!
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Actually there is still plenty of dark capacity left on SAT-3, which Telkom can light up as required (i.e. the full 120Gbps capacity is not currently operational).
 
feo said:
Why doesn't Neotel just build their own cable?
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Although Neotel have some challanges ahead to get direct unfettered access to SAT-3/SAFE, its still a lot easier than laying their own cable. I'm sure they will eventually be able to leverage their parent's considerable shareholding within cable consortium.
 
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