Northern Cape ISP selling Starlink in South Africa

wingnut771 said:
So, this works now in SA without roaming?
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You won't be roaming in the Northern Cape. Towns are about 100km apart and cell signal dies 10km out of town. Farms use wireless internet with parabolic dishes.
 
Cosmik Debris said:
You won't be roaming in the Northern Cape. Towns are about 100km apart and cell signal dies 10km out of town. Farms use wireless internet with parabolic dishes.
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What does cell signal have to do with Starlink roaming?
 
I guess that's it. I haven't heard back on my query from this morning and nothing on the IM earlier.
I'll have to wait for Starlink to arrive officially.
 
lkpat said:
I guess that's it. I haven't heard back on my query from this morning and nothing on the IM earlier.
I'll have to wait for Starlink to arrive officially.
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Maybe give them a week or two to get through everything, I would assume they got absolutely inundated after the article.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Maybe give them a week or two to get through everything, I would assume they got absolutely inundated after the article.
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The thread landed at 7:23. I mailed at around 7:50.
"First come first serve" is prominent on their web page.
 
ToxicBunny said:
And I would assume, given MyBB's readers... you'd have been 3 or 400th in the queue at that point...
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Then you don't follow the Starlink threads.
Besides. I'm not demanding anything, all I asked was 1) contract required y/n and 2) stock?

MyBB cheapskates would look at the R13k upfront costs and generate a 99 page thread about how they wouldn't bother.
 
lkpat said:
Then you don't follow the Starlink threads.
Besides. I'm not demanding anything, all I asked was 1) contract required y/n and 2) stock?

MyBB cheapskates would look at the R13k upfront costs and generate a 99 page thread about how they wouldn't bother.
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Those would be the moaning myrtles, and cheapskates like backstreetboy :p

There are many who will just keep quiet and do it, some of them will brag once they have it up and running, but they're in the minority.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Those would be the moaning myrtles, and cheapskates like backstreetboy :p

There are many who will just keep quiet and do it, some of them will brag once they have it up and running, but they're in the minority.
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Trouble is, how do you know?
On BSB, it's his thing for sure LMAO.
 
lkpat said:
Trouble is, how do you know?
On BSB, it's his thing for sure LMAO.
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You don't, but its largely why I say (and i'm being overly generous) give them a week or two.

There is every likelihood that by the time you sent them a mail they had sold out on the units they had, or had enough leads to move all the units they had. There is also every likelihood that there is something "off" about the deal itself.
 
ToxicBunny said:
You don't, but its largely why I say (and i'm being overly generous) give them a week or two.

There is every likelihood that by the time you sent them a mail they had sold out on the units they had, or had enough leads to move all the units they had. There is also every likelihood that there is something "off" about the deal itself.
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I'm suspecting the latter, but regardless, radio silence usually means you're too busy for new clients...

Though I have little faith in web forms. The number of times I've seen sites with broken contact us pages... Why is that exactly? It really should be a regular service - like uptimerobot... Is our contact us page still working?
 
Good morning everyone

We have some good news - As IT Lec we already have a technical team and offices operating from 8am to 9pm

We also since last week have 2 x teams working 24/5 to get to everyone's queries
It is unbelievably hard to adhere to ALL the terms of Starlink, ALL the politics as well as ALL the laws of SA

Since we had started testing our first unit 6 months ago, all seems to be on track with all the agreements and documentations

We have weekly deliveries to our offices in the Northern Cape which serves the rural areas and our current client base. We had pre orders running since 2021

We started this initiative back before Covid and we all knew this day would come, where Rural towers (MTN, Vodacom, WISP) all would struggle staying online with anything above Stage 4 Loadshedding

IT Lec is assuring everyone that their goal and attention lies with answering all the queries coming through on Email through the website or Whatsapp
We have since doubled our stock request from Starlink and was approved this morning at 03:00
 
Anyone remember the days when the government tried to prevent SAfricans to get TV in their houses?

People then started to import those huge dishes and got it anyways.

It eventually dawned on them that resistance was futile.
 
wingnut771 said:
No, if you follow the Starlink saga, there is a roaming option for it allowing you to use Starlink outside your country for an extra fee that is only valid for 3 months or something.
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OK. But seeing SA doesn't have Starlink yet but does have cell roaming, maybe that aspect should have been mentioned to clear up any misconceptions.
 
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