Neotel "not be allowed to land the cable"

[ic]

There are words to describe what I think of Shope-Mafole, but you usually only hear such words in Scottish pubs & clubs .

 

[ldmelsa]

But isn't cheap bandwidth a good thing for the country? Bridge the digital divide, so that the people can have access to Internet. Why don't they want the cables?

 

[bwana]

But isn't cheap bandwidth a good thing for the country? Bridge the digital divide, so that the people can have access to Internet. Why don't they want the cables?

Is an educated populace good for the ruling party?

 

[feo]

Is an educated populace good for the ruling party?

Good answer..

 

[ldmelsa]

Is an educated populace good for the ruling party?

true

 

[Leitmotif]

Is an educated populace good for the ruling party?

Bingo.

 

[ldmelsa]

Maybe that's not the reason.
Maybe they don't trust the private sector?

 

[Leitmotif]

Don't trust the private sector to do what? Private sector, operating on sound economic principles, will realise that the best way to take all of Telkom's business would be to simply undercut them on price. Government's lapdog loses its value. So all the government could worry about is the private sector not playing their game.

There is no way that more bandwidth could hurt SA. Period.

 

[Sneeky]

It is high time for Carte Blanche to go back to this ridiculous woman and ask her a few questions about who is really the stumbling block in communication liberalisation.
While they are there they can also ask her about that old tsunami she was so worried about.

Government people protecting their own interests.

 

[ldmelsa]

There are words to describe what I think of Shope-Mafole, but you usually only hear such words in Scottish pubs & clubs .

So much hate, ic.

 

[ToxicBunny]

If the guavamint try this... I hope neotottie, IS, Verizon... and ALL isps find someway of taking them to court and screwing them over...

 

[ldmelsa]

^^^ neotottie - LOL

 

[Lord Anubis]

^^^ neotottie - LOL

remember i have patent on that as well as ...IBIWISI and "imminent"...oh, yeah and Telskommel

 

[ic]

Is an educated populace good for the ruling party?

Considering that guavamint decided to deny school kids access to second hand computers being donated by an organisation that operates throughout the rest of Africa, well it certainly seems like denying access to bandwidth and consequently information, is at the rotten core of the current corrupt communist despotic regime's thinking.

 

[ldmelsa]

remember i have patent on that as well as ...IBIWISI and "imminent"...oh, yeah and Telskommel

All rights reserved.

 

[Sneeky]

The history books will not be kind to these buffoons.

 

[antowan]

threads merged.

 

[bobby.quinne]

One wonders what communications director-general Lyndall Shope-Mafole real agenda is.

Well, look at her education. Damn communist!!! The concept of capitalism and the market is not easily picked up by such people.

http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3510

 

[Gatecrasher]

The problem that the DOC faces is this: It cannot on the one hand allow Neotel to control the Seacom cable landing, and on the other hand disallow Telkom controlling the SAT-3 cable landing from November onwards.

If SAT-3 is to be declared an essentially facility to which all-comers will have cost-based access, it is difficult to sanction a repeat of what is about to be disallowed.

I'm pretty sure that the "sensitive discussions" are about ensuring cost-based access to the SEACOM cable, and ensuring that Neotel, if they land the cable, does not pull any Telkom-style profiteering out of the hat.

 

[Sneeky]

Well, look at her education. Damn communist!!! The concept of capitalism and the market is not easily picked up by such people.

http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=3510

At least its not a bachelor of arts like Lulu.