Local broadband divide widening

[ic]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Broadband/1915.html

South Africa has fallen further behind the rest of the world when it comes to broadband penetration rates.

 

[KampfGherkin]

It's becoming blatantly obvious that the powers that be really have no interest and most likely with that, have an utter lack of understanding of the enabling power of broadband in the information age and what it does to an economy.

If that's due to greed or blatant ignorance doesn't really matter anymore. Fact of the matter is, monkeys in government would do a better job than they.

 

[johandutoit2000]

We want BROADBAND! ... We want BROADBAND! We want BROADBAND! ... We want BROADBAND! ... We want BROADBAND! ... WE WANT BROADBAND!!

 

[lenosb]

We want BROADBAND! ... We want BROADBAND! We want BROADBAND! ... We want BROADBAND! ... We want BROADBAND! ... WE WANT BROADBAND!!

Government\Telkom: WE DON'T GIVE A DAMN!......WE DON'T GIVE A DAMN!.....WE DON'T GIVE A DAMN!.....WE DON'T GIVE A DAMN!

 

[JBFRobisher]

Comparisons of network development relative to levels of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita do not map directly to these approaches. Nevertheless, key accelerants and retardants are apparent. Competition is clearly important, with much more progress made in competitive mobile markets than in monopoly fixed line markets. Monopoly fixed markets also retard the development of the Internet and repress subscriber growth (e.g. South Africa and, to a lesser extent, Russia). The delayed introduction of fixed network competition in South Africa and Russia has hampered network development and the ability to achieve economic and social development goals. The separation of regulatory authorities from regulated service providers is also important, with the BRICS case studies making apparent the importance of complementing this with genuine operational separation – South Africa’s failure to separate regulation from ministerial veto and Russia’s difficulties in establishing explicit and functional mechanisms being cases in point.

http://www.oecd.org/document/17/0,3343,en_2649_201185_38876369_1_1_1_1,00.html

From the OECD Communications Outlook 2007