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You have just highlighted the sad reality in South Africa.Can't wait for these awesome speeds so I can get through my 100MB - 250MB (which still seems to be the norm on high end contracts) faster
Hope these improvements will equate into lower data costs.
To who? The current 2 main players have shown no sign that they would effectively use it to the benefit of the country.
And then what? We still have an ailing public enterprise minus a national asset that can be abused by whoever pays the highest.
Are you happy burning your data at the current price?
Have you looked at Vodacon and eMpTyN's competitive performance over the last 3 years compared to Telkom and Cell C?
Eskom. As long as it's seen as another cash cow instead of a national asset that should be partly funded through tax money.
Ahead with what? Certainly not price. It doesn't help to have a super fast high capacity product when nobody can use it without being penalised. As for Cell C and Telkom failing, we've heard the doom prophets on that front for years whenever a company doesn't partake in the reigning profiteering mentality. So far they are all wrong with their predictions as neither have failed. But hey, I suppose we'll hear the "it's unsustainable" chants soon.
Not by squandering our non-renewable resources to the highest bidder. There's enough funds already. The focus shouldn't be on bailing out but on continually investing in public infrastructure that's of benefit to the whole country. But in post-apartheid South Africa the focus is not on that but on centennial parties and KFC while the peepol eat woodfire food by candle light not out of romanticism but necessity.
