SA bandwidth pricing buffoonery

Never thought about it like that, never knew about it. I thought that the International line was that much more $$$. I mean, we pay about +-R70/GB for the international part, while local access costs a mere +-R19/GB, so the cheaper price for International connectivity is not showing on my side at least. Or is that (155Mbps line) not the only thing that needs to be paid?
 
Ah. It happens again and again in South Africa. Sucks when even the Government doesnt care about it's citizens. And out SNO, Neotel, doesn't offer any services because it's not in their business plan to compete with Telkom. AAAAHHHH. What are they planning? Offering super-expensive things like Telkom so they can also get rich from us?
 
well, to be fair to Telkom, the "local" cable stands a much greater chance of being stolen on a regular basis...
 
Moederloos said:
well, to be fair to Telkom, the "local" cable stands a much greater chance of being stolen on a regular basis...
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isn't most of the JHB to CT running on Microwave radio links? Though we do have a couple of Oxygen thieves in this country... :cool:
 
Moederloos said:
well, to be fair to Telkom, the "local" cable stands a much greater chance of being stolen on a regular basis...
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At the prices they are charging for use of the cable it has been paid for a few hundred times over and they should be able to afford replacing it a few hundred times then without having to pass the cost onto the consumer.

Oh, hold on, most of the profit ended up in the shareholders hands. My bad.:rolleyes:
 
Why would they pay attention to it, they are reaping the benifits from this.
 
The simplest, most effective solution would be for the country to open the market and let supply and demand deliver effective bandwidth long before the first 2010 kick-off whistle is blown," Thompson continues.
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Does anyone have a theory as to way government doesn't do this?
 
Money.... (Competition would mean they would be unable to line their pockets effectively)
And Information Control
 
56kMan said:
Does anyone have a theory as to way government doesn't do this?
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MONEY!!!!!! If it its 50.1% Government owned they get MONEY!!!! :mad:
Otherwise giving us more bandwidth.... like thas going to happen.... :rolleyes:
 
I have a way of destroying everyones day with a few choice words it seems....:o

I honestly do think the telecommunications issue is becomming a behemoth that will eventually steam roll the guavamint, but it will take some time to get there.
 
I think somebody should write a worm that maxes out the internet connection of all the pc's on it in South Africa come WC 2010. Just to show the world how incompetent South African Telecoms really are, and how they have had this country at its knees. Maybe once the rest of the world see the jittering pictures coming out they'll start to notice our plight.
 
ambo said:
isn't most of the JHB to CT running on Microwave radio links? Though we do have a couple of Oxygen thieves in this country... :cool:
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Ja. And they all work at Telkom/DoC. :mad:
 
Wyzak said:
I think somebody should write a worm that maxes out the internet connection of all the pc's on it in South Africa come WC 2010. Just to show the world how incompetent South African Telecoms really are, and how they have had this country at its knees. Maybe once the rest of the world see the jittering pictures coming out they'll start to notice our plight.
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Wow, brilliant :D We can show them how much this really means to us! We shall ruin it! We still got a few years...Lets get cracking!!!
 
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