SA undersea broadband cables are in a tangle

[kifoth]

Millions and millions. LOL!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_submarine_communications_cables

A Copy/Paste and line count (minus the 26 alphabet letters) gets me 264.

Wait! I get it! She's not dumb. These are all fibre optic cables! Fibre Optic cables are made up of lots strands running together. And not just a few strands either...

In fact, there are millions and millions of them

 

[mancombseepgood]

i am utterly bored with this topic and indeed everything south african, governmental, telecoms, etc.

 

[Crusader]

I'm so amazed by the complete drivel spouted by the morons in charge. The Department of Communications should officially be renamed to Department of Clueless [idiots].

I'd love for Carte Blanche to interview her and ask the really hard questions. At least then the whole nation would see how clueless and pathetic the replies are. Nothing she said made any sense!

 

[Gatecrasher]

i am utterly bored with this topic and indeed everything south african, governmental, telecoms, etc.

Maybe you're visiting the wrong website.

 

[bwana]

I'm so amazed by the complete drivel spouted by the morons in charge. The Department of Communications should officially be renamed to Department of Clueless [idiots].

I'd love for Carte Blanche to interview her and ask the really hard questions. At least then the whole nation would see how clueless and pathetic the replies are. Nothing she said made any sense!

We saw last time just how clueless she is. http://carteblanche.co.za/Display/Display.asp?Id=3051

 

[Crusader]

We saw last time just how clueless she is. http://carteblanche.co.za/Display/Display.asp?Id=3051

Almost forgot about that!

However they should definitely make good on the promise to go see her "in a year". At the least it would make for entertaining viewing, watching her talk round in circles...

 

[AdLo]

Her delaying progress as much as possible is not suprising judging on what she has said in the past. http://mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=983

It's not that she's clueless. It's just that she sees telecoms high cost as benefiting poor people i.e. shareholders & Telkom dividends paying for schools and hospitals.

 

[KampfGherkin]

My head hurts.

 

[Juice]

Wow... what an impressive display of political double-speak...

 

[rrcatto]

They were individually hand-picked to...

Where the hell did Mbeki got all these idiots from, and all at the same time? This truly defies the law of averages.

They were individually hand-picked to... FAIL!

You might as well listen to their theme song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4

 

[zambussi]

DOC are as stupid as their boss (Mbeki)

The reason that private investment is not wanted is because the people paying the billions of dollars to lay the undersea cables haven't yet seen fit to give 51% of their hard earned cash to a "struggle executive" in another lucrative and entirely unproductive BEE deal.

Does anyone honestly think that the ANC wants to give up a product (SA Narrowband), that fills up their coffers every month ?

 

[kris860911]

What a load of morons we have in our Governmint. C'mon. Surely... I also vote for slightly competent. Please. Thats all we ask. Not these useless idiots we have at the moment

 

[kris860911]

Does anyone honestly think that the ANC wants to give up a product (SA Narrowband), that fills up their coffers every month ?

Not me

 

[durbandave]

Really!!!!

This incesant dribble coming from the DOC and government is enough to make a person want to cut there eyes and out chop of there ears.

Just so that they dont have to read or hear these lame explanations anymore.

Every other job in the world is based on performance but this doesnt apply to government departments. if they were based on performance they would be paying us to work.

They are a bunch of incompetent w@nkers who couldnt organise a p1ss up in a brewery.

I really wish someone in government would have the balls to start fighting for the residents of this country and allow them to live in a country where things are fair.

She talks about the rich companies getting richer. What about the rich fat government workers getting richer with Telkom etc. Talk about double standards.

This country is burning in hell, and the government and Telkom are the devils behind it.

 

[Oupoot]

I think we should give thanks that we live in SA - there is a greater possibility that at least we will be able to watch the 2010 World Cup (luckily not yet trademarked, so I cannot be sued for using it here) live or on TV. The TV signal will probably still be poor and all, but the poor sods living in the rest of the world - there is a possibility that they will be unable to watch the games on TV given that it is highly unlikely that any of the new undersea cables would have been laid by then offering the necessary capacity.

If we really want to irk the govt, just get the foreign media convinced that it will be unlikely SA will be able to broadcast the 2010 Worldcup live. But just give a more factual basis for this, such as the fact that the lead time for laying an international cable is probably over 12 months, and increasing over time (the Infraco cables will probably be laid in 2011 or later) , the DoC's lack of credibility in finalising anything on time (incl. sorting out Infraco's licence, EASSy & SEACOMs landing rights), etc. Target the economic papers - FT, WSJ & The Economist.