I would have thought by now that the members of this forum were less naive.
Telkom's current marketing campaign is what is known in the advertising industry as "brand awareness". It has nothing to do with any of their products, and probably even less to do with their network. They simply realised that they were losing the marketing edge over their competitors, who do actually have a new, next generation network live, and are offering its services to customers. Hence, they scratched around in the back rooms, and discovered that they have some of the same stuff lying around. They started implementing an NGN about five years ago, and they have somewhere between five and ten years to go to completion. To date, no actual customer can use this network. Of course, they have built some more of their regular transmission (quite a lot, actually) purely for FIFA, who are much more important than any real customer, after all. Hence, they can say that they have a next generation network, that they have enough fibre to go around the world, and that they will provide 100% up time for the World Cup (the last bit courtesy of Neotel, who are actually providing their redundant international service over SEACOM). Get it?
