Reputation on the line

[rpm]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Telecoms/1995.html

 

[Scorpion]

http://www.telegeography.com/products/map_cable/images/sub_cable_2007_large.jpg

Check out our little cable compared to the links between "America and Europe"

 

[fskmh]

He says it would be intolerable for Nepad to support a system which would result in the exploitation of African consumers by commercial operators in the way that consortium members in Sat-3 have done.

Simply repeating this disingenuous rubbish will not make it true.

But time is running out - and Chasia will know that his reputation is on the line.

Given that his wife is DG of the DoC it was already on shaky ground. Chasia is the man behind the Nepad protocol and his wife is the one who says which cables will land in S.A.

http://africascience.blogspot.com/2007/08/infighting-plagues-east-african-cable.html

Shope-Mafole says. “We are implementing Nepad’s protocol.”

Right, no conflict of interest there then .

 

[LordFoom]

Simply repeating this disingenuous rubbish will not make it true.

I have to say I do like the idea of African cables being under African control. Perhaps not governmental control, but even so. I'm curious as to what specifically you find issue with?

 

[Tux]

Meanwhile, signatories to the protocol are promising that at least one leg of the Nepad submarine network will be in place in 2009, in time to carry television signals from the 2010 soccer World Cup.

If Poison Ivy and her cohort of court jesters dont get in the way and if pigs can fly...

 

[UglyKidJoe]

Given that his wife is DG of the DoC it was already on shaky ground. Chasia is the man behind the Nepad protocol and his wife is the one who says which cables will land in S.A.

eek! Good spot.

But Eassy has come under fire from Nepad and SA's department of communications for, they say, replicating the governance system of the high-priced Sat-3/Safe system that connects SA with Europe and Asia. Eassy, Chasia says, will not result in prices falling to the extent necessary to foster economic development. Rather, it will replicate the Sat-3 control structure, keeping prices high.

Mr and Mrs Chasia-Shope-Malofe?

This statement makes no sense to me.

Government(pty) Ltd must stay out of it and let free enterprise run it's course. But then again we are dealing with a bunch of communists who clearly know better than the World Bank.

 

[gregmcc]

A few more scary maps:

http://www.telegeography.com/products/map_internet/index.php
http://www.telegeography.com/products/map_traffic/index.php

Even S.America is doing way better than us!

 

[fskmh]

I have to say I do like the idea of African cables being under African control. Perhaps not governmental control, but even so. I'm curious as to what specifically you find issue with?

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not somehow implying Afropessimism on my part.

He says it would be intolerable for Nepad to support a system which would result in the exploitation of African consumers by commercial operators in the way that consortium members in Sat-3 have done.

The reason I rejected this statement is because it aptly describes our current situation in S.A.
The only technical difference is that the exploitation is being done by a state-controlled* company. It is therefore laughable to conclude that commercial operators are somehow to blame for this, yet this is what our minister of communications and DoC sock-puppets are claiming.
The brevity of my remark was due to the fact that many MyADSL forumites are already intimately familiar with the sickening details, and will probably throw things at me for reminding them.

*The Telkom shareholder structure is a matter of public record, you can go and check it for yourself:
http://www.telkom.co.za/minisites/ir/companyprofile/groupstr.html

 

[Zenbaas]

forumites are already intimately familiar with the sickening details, and will probably throw things at me for reminding them.

*Throws Telkom phone!*
Take THAT!

 

[DblD]

He says it would be intolerable for Nepad to support a system which would result in the exploitation of African consumers by commercial operators in the way that consortium members in Sat-3 have done.

Where has this guy been ???? It looks to me that it is Telscum that exploited the consumer with full blessing of the Government just by the way!!!!

 

[ic]

Where has this guy been ???? It looks to me that it is Telscum that exploited the consumer with full blessing of the Government just by the way!!!!

He has been with Stalin-Mafole from the Dementia of Communistications, raking in dividends from Telkodemonopolies' monopoly status & exorbitant pricing.