Licence For A Revolution?

The worst thing about apartheid was deny people access to information. The current regime is doing the same thing... Communication opens up access to information in so many ways! Sadly it has become a political tool.
 
Agreed with IC.
Cellular operators using Wimax will make it expensive to make sure people stick to UMTS and GPRS. Protect the investment.

Isn't it wierd. Because telkom / ICASA / Government (or who ever you want to blame) won't relinquish the control of fixed lines, everyone else has to move over to fixed wireless.
This seems like a sort of bodged solution to internet problems in South Africa.
Instead of solving the problem head on, they implement some side road solution.

It is good news though.
 
Well, at least something is happening. We've been waiting for over, is it like two years now since telkom "officially" lost their monopoly. If these developements take off then telkom will have to drop their prices. I don't give a s--t about the cell operators, they will say whatever they have to if they want to protect their investment.
 
ic said:
but on the subject of "own infrastructure" - if IS and all other VAS|VANS|ISPs were not [still] legislatively forced to use Telkodemonopolies' exorbitant digicrap product, then local self-provisioning would be a reality
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I see the point you make. But what I want to know is if IS were using only Telkom infrastructure, then how can they provide 30GB of extra local bandwidth at no extra cost? You think Telkom will provide it for them? I stand under correction here, but I think they must be bypassing Telkom in some way. Every law has it's loopholes.:confused:
 
ic said:
Out of all the local SA hosting companies IS arguably hosts the most local content [e.g. banks & large corporates use IS to host their content servers], so statistically, IS would be hoping that a high percentage of local content served to ISDSL customers would be content from within their own [digicrapified] local network - as opposed to content from other local hosting companies [which would incur additional peering costs].
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Thanks for the info. So it appears IS is serving the 30GB mainly from its own servers, hence no Telkom, and not a lot of content from other companies' servers through Telkom.
ic said:
My guess is that IS is offering a near-breakeven ISDSL service [considering all the IPC & other anti-competitive Telkodemonopolies charges], and it is doing so in order to capture market share away from TelkodemonopoliesHindernet, bcos once the existing monopoly enforcing legislation falls away, it will become cost-effective & there will be a race to compete for customers...
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I just hope they know what they're doing cause "near-breakeven" is not a very good business practice.

ps. still think Telkom's extinction is imminent. ;)
 
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