The Tongmaster
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I would like some views on the presentation made by Angus Hay on Friday.
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noswal
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Seemed very positive, can't wait to see what actually happens for the consumer. Unfortunately there was no Q&A with him.
His presentation was interesting, but I would have liked to hear something along the lines of 'NeOTel will supply consumers with ADSL2+' - unfortunately no such light at the end of any tunnel was forthcoming...
I'm certainly not the typical consumer, but the fixation that NeOTel [the 2nd national fixed line network operator] has with wireless CDMA2000, indicates that NeOTel might be prepared to deliver a contended ~1Mbits/s broadband service via CDMA2000, and then realise that even Telkodemonopolies has a faster and more reliable service that runs on actual fixed [copper] lines...
NeOTel's NGN sounds really wonderful, but it means absolutely nothing until such time as it has been beta tested by actual consumers like all of us MyADSL members...
AntiThesis
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I'll go out on a limb and say I'm cautiously optimistic about NeoTel's eventual influence in the telecoms sector.
I liked the sound of it. It was certainly the lengthiest presentation, and had some interesting hooks into the type of things we like to see - VoIP, data and TV on one line, the entire vox system running on VoIP, etc.
Skeptik
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Isn't it amazing that this company can get a license without declaring what exact services they intend to offer.
Don't be so sure about that: IncompetentCASA was presented with NeOTel's business plan - prior to the SNO's license being issued - and this allegedly mentioned the need for 800MHz spectrum to deploy CDMA2000, and if ICASA actually read through the business plan, then the Grim Poisonous Ivyness Creeper and the rest of guavamint would also have known what NeOTel's plans were...
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