MTN's 100Mbps broadband vision

Pixual's Universal Survival Rule #1: never (ever) trust a man wearing a tie. Especially not a yellow one.
 
How about a 1Mbps vision? Your HSDPA network performs worse than 2G yet you're talking multiples of 10Mpbs?
 
What's the cellular networks' obsession with these speeds? Rather make the current offerings more affordable :rolleyes:
 
jes said:
MTN said that it is planning 100Mbps in dense urban areas and 5Mbps in rural areas
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R200 billion ... so they will take roughly between R50,000 and R100,000 from each taxpayer (on average), and hand that money to MTN. It will only cost you and I tens of thousands of Rands each to be forced to provide broadband to other people, while MTN execs will get massive multi-million bonuses courtesy of taxpayers. MTN will then have massive locked-in markets from which to extract ongoing profits. The "business by robbery" business model.

And this is coming from MTN, who have been an utter failure at providing competitive broadband and whose business model evidently includes bribes to government officials.
 
Tick said:
R200 billion
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I think a pretty reasonable guesstimate based the costs of Australia's NBN rollout. Their price tag so far is A$ 37.4 bil = R332 bil (@ R8.9 to the A$).
 
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Don't you just love fiction? They have the most pathetric network of all. I love travelling around all I get to see in most places on my cell phone is "EDGE" and the very extreme occasional HSDPA.
 
Slootvreter said:
What's the cellular networks' obsession with these speeds? Rather make the current offerings more affordable :rolleyes:
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Yip. Can't help but feel like it's a continuous game of them throwing red herrings at us with all this hot air about great speeds whilst they continue to rip us off with obscene data prices. It's getting better, but not fast enough. Not while Joosub doesn't even give uncapped a microsecond of his attention, or MTN are talking about 100Mbps for 2020 when by 2020 the rest of the world will be on 100Gbps. Ironic, since they claim to be experts at comparing us with global average statistics. We need 100mbps in 2013, not 2020. What's the point in having Seacom, EASSy, WACS, ACE, MAIN ONE, SAEx, etc landing, and all the fibre trenching wrecking our roads/traffic, when it still costs R2/MB? Smoking gun...
 
In Bryanston, Johannesburg, we don't even get decent 3G from MTN - mostly just Edge...
 
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