Local Loop Unbundling gaining momentum

@RPM, you really need to stop it with these misleading headers :)

Perhaps "Local Loop Unbundling gaining momentum, everywhere except here"
 
Amazing how rapidly everywhere else can get the job done.
 
Local loop unbundling frightens me a little. While its a great thing for competion, there will be all these new technicians climbing into the cable network. Telkom keeps records as to what pair goes where, I dont think these records will last very long with free agents in the mix and also the maintainace of key points like Street cabinets etc, will fall by the way side increasing the fault rate to worse than what it is now.
 
Leftfoot said:
Local loop unbundling frightens me a little. While its a great thing for competion, there will be all these new technicians climbing into the cable network. Telkom keeps records as to what pair goes where, I dont think these records will last very long with free agents in the mix and also the maintainace of key points like Street cabinets etc, will fall by the way side increasing the fault rate to worse than what it is now.
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No, please, with Telkom's labelling it may be an issue - this may force them to share that info though... and who knows - maybe record it electronically somewhere since bandwidth will be cheaper then :D
 
Morocco to get full local loop unbundling in July 2008 and pressures to unbundle grow in Tunisia.....


And exactly how does this help us? :confused:
 
The whole world is surging ahead while SA is in reverse!
 
Leftfoot said:
Local loop unbundling frightens me a little. While its a great thing for competion, there will be all these new technicians climbing into the cable network. Telkom keeps records as to what pair goes where, I dont think these records will last very long with free agents in the mix and also the maintainace of key points like Street cabinets etc, will fall by the way side increasing the fault rate to worse than what it is now.
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I would seriously disagree with your statement. Perhaps the intention is lost upon the technicians that actually do the work but on the street level, it's gross incompetence or deliberate sabotage what goes on at the Street Distribution Cabinets.

I've literally lost count the number of faults I've reported due to cable mixups in my area. If my telephone line isn't given to a neighbour (yes - actually happened AFTER a repair was done - lucky I was personnaly supervising and did my own tests using my cellphone and picked it up while the technician was busy) or experience cross-talk or just plain have my 'clean' ADSL line switched for a noisy / faulty one every other week, I might agree with you.

Don't let me start with the chaos that results from stolen cables / repairs and temporary lines or when big storms hit the area.

I feel that things honestly cannot get any worse and that ONLY through unbundling the local loop, can fresh eyes see what's going on and corrective measures put in place to protect the consumer against shoddy service delivery!
 
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@ Rpm

I have to agree with the general sentiment that the title is misleading. In future, could you please indicate when a story is NOT applicable to the local context? Maybe, add a description like "SA: ..." or "Foreign: ..." :D

The title in it's current form had me thinking: WTF? Has Ivy realised her future is in jeopardy unless she fixes things now? Then I read the article and realised we South Africans are once again being shown-up for the backward sheep we allow ourselves to be :mad:
 
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