Licensed for failure in the sticks

The cost is in the billing

Unfortunately all the people who are trying to provide network access are not there to "empower previously disadvantaged communities" they are there to cash in. Im guessing but imagine that the real costs in providing wireless connectivity are in its commoditisation and the billing of that commodity (packets in this case). The very need to restrict access and to monitor and bill and count traffic ads huge costs to any operation. The R5 M grant may have gone some way to establishing a wireless LAN open to all within the area to provide free (Vid) phone calls to people within that WLAN, information sharing, community web sites/boards. Forget even internet access for the moment, the community will provide more meaningful and relevant content. Just a large WLAN of community nodes. Then more enterprising ppl could aggregate these users and offer internet...once again for a cost but that would be their headache. It remains that Free and open WLANS would have a huge impact on everyone and the costs to maintain and run these would be negligable compared to the good they would provide. Now that would really empower previously disadvantaged community, but then wheres the buck in that?
 
Tommy your idea is good. But the problem is that these guys dont even know how many bytes make a kilobyte! They have absolutely 0 skills in the Technical Department!!!

Our deputy president is an idiot. Mbeki is not far off! Poisoin Ivy is officialy retarted!! What makes you think that these guys in power who give grants are any better??? If our own DoC cant comprehend the severity of the situation...... These goons will never know !!

The only sad part of this all is that they end up screwing their own ppl. Not only are they theives... But they are retarted theives!!! Its really sad :(
there's no hope left for this country and telecoms environment.!!!
 
as predicted although i did think they would have the sense to call it a day after seeing how badly the USALs are doing (there are one or two exceptions)

another factor contributing towards this failure and which is not directly referred to in the article is the manner in which the DoC and ICASA forced consortiums together - basically saying you will go into business with these folks whether you like it or not...result is that they didn't even get past the planning stage before huge power struggles broke out

nor the fact that the business case for USALs was irreparably damaged by the usual delays from the DoC and ICASA in actually awarding the licences

all in all and sad to say but just another case of business as usual for SA's telecomms regulators
 
And they wonder why all the IT okes go overseas for work?!
 
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