Power to the people

[Prometheus]

Interestingly the very same reason why Telkom has so stubbornly hung on to ADSL1 technology for so long, when the norm internationally has been ADSL2 & 2+. Its all about the infrastructural cost (per subscriber) you inccur in using a technology with a shorter local loop range. Obviously overseas they have far higher urban population density concentration which makes short range local loop far more feasible.

Don't make excuses for Telkom:

South Africa: 39 / sq. km
United States: 31 / sq. km
Sweden: 20 / sq. km
New Zealand: 14.9 / sq. km
Australia: 2.6 / sq. km

 

[feo]

Yeah, thanks for those stats. I think Korea is the most dense thats why they have FTTH to buildings and things. So if we have more people per sq. km then why is that excuse always played saying that it's easier for other countries to delpoy this kind of tech because of higher population densities.

 

[Roman4604]

Come on guys, now you're getting really silly. Surely you can understand why those stats are largely irrelavant to the topic? tip: most Ozzies dont live in the desert, and those that do are more interested in sheep than broadband.

And I'm not excusing Telkom, just telling you why they do the things they do (e.g. profit maximization) ... you dont like it, take it up with them.

 

[Prometheus]

Yes most ozzies do not live in the desert and neither do most americans. Everywhere in the world people will flock together to numbers in the thousands per sq. km, even here in SA. Sure in the US some people live in apartment complexes, but so do some people here. In the US there are also people in residential areas the same as here at the same density who have ten times faster broadband than here for ten times cheaper. Telkom is only using the population density as an excuse to maximize profits by not having to provide shorter local loops. They should be providing faster and cheaper services and in a competitive environment they would be.

 

[riaan_pta]

Does the ICT community use a different dictionary/timetable defining terms such as "soon", "imminent” and “next few days”?

If anyone has a copy of this document – please post online so we can all adjust our expectations accordingly.

 

[Prometheus]

Does the ICT community use a different dictionary/timetable defining terms such as "soon", "imminent” and “next few days”?

If anyone has a copy of this document – please post online so we can all adjust our expectations accordingly.

Don't know but this is how things go

Software doesn't just appear on the shelves by magic. That program shrink-wrapped inside the box along with the indecipherable manual and twelve-paragraph disclaimer notice actually came to you by way of an elaborate path through the most rigid quality control methods on the planet. Here, shared for the first time with the general public, are the inside details of the program development cycle.

1. Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free.

2. Product is tested. Twenty bugs are found.

3. Programmer fixes ten of the bugs and explains to the testing. department that the other ten aren't really bugs.

4. Testing department finds that five of the fixes didn't work and discovers fifteen new bugs.

5. See 3.

6. See 4.

7. See 5.

8. See 6.

9. See 7.

10. See 8.

11. Due to marketing pressure and extremely pre-mature product announcement based on over-optimistic programming schedule, the product is released.

12. Users find 137 new bugs.

13. Original programmer, having cashed his royalty check, is nowhere to be found.

14. Newly-assembled programming team fixes almost all of the 137 bugs, but introduces 456 new ones.

15. Original programmer sends underpaid testing department a postcard from Fiji. Entire testing department quits.

16. Company is bought in hostile takeover by competitor using profits from their latest release, which had 783 bugs.

17. New CEO is brought in by board of directors. He hires programmer to redo program from scratch.

18. Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free.

http://wide-eyed-webs.com/instation/mottos.html

 

[riaan_pta]

Well, it has been almost a month now since their latest "…next few days…" promise - (02/02/2007) http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=5538.

It seems they have managed to outperform Telkom in at least 2 areas from the the word go – that of general misinformation and public inaccessibility.

I can see the headline now - March 2008 - "GTS Launch now really (maybe) imminent..."

One would think they would throw some of that newly invested money into a PR/Media team?

Eish!

 

[riaan_pta]

Well, it's been 10 weeks since the last (next couple of days) announcement from GTS.

It should be soon now! (imminent)

 

[Alchemist]

GTS: any company who tries to make their IT company's name sound like a suped up sports car, is just destined to fail

 

[ldmelsa]

Well, it's been 10 weeks since the last (next couple of days) announcement from GTS.

It should be soon now! (imminent)

I feel powerless. Powerless... Get it? Get it?

 

[Glordit]

I feel powerless. Powerless... Get it? Get it?

nice one 56k man!

http://goal.co.za/gts_products/gn_internet.php?prodId=3&style=3

5GB for R500 still too much for my empty little pockets...

 

[ldmelsa]

nice one 56k man!

http://goal.co.za/gts_products/gn_internet.php?prodId=3&style=3

5GB for R500 still too much for my empty little pockets...

How's the Aerosh|t?