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Joy-Energiser
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I love how idiots make up random dates like 1 November.
Acid is no idiot. he's wrong, but no idiot.
....and you can get reprimanded for saying something like that.
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As NIKE says, "Just do it!"
Fact: Many new cables are coming in the next few years.
Fact: Competition drives down prices.
Fact: The prices will drop, as each new cable is launched, through to 2014.
Nothing has yet come, from all the conversation on the MyBB forum, about getting together, to start an ISP for all, to purchase bulk bandwidth from an outside provider, like the new cable company's, in order to sell at almost cost price.
It can be done...
1) We start a Section 21, Non Profit Company. At least 20 founder members, meeting weekly, bi-monthly or at a minimum, monthly. Nationally renowned attorneys and auditors will be used to oversee the NPO.
2) Staff is drawn from the founder members first. Only the small number of staff salaries, medical aid and pension, will need to be covered by the small markup on bulk bandwidth, purchased for resale.
3) Office rental is not required if staff are on laptops, with VOIP or Video conferencing, "working from home". After all, Bandwidth won't be a problem anymore...
Our mission statement: True, Non Profit, Lowest Cost Bandwidth for all.
IM me and let's pool our knowledge to get a proper business plan, founder member list and company name started.
Fact: Many new cables are coming in the next few years.
Fact: Competition drives down prices.
Fact: The prices will drop, as each new cable is launched, through to 2014.
Nothing has yet come, from all the conversation on the MyBB forum, about getting together, to start an ISP for all, to purchase bulk bandwidth from an outside provider, like the new cable company's, in order to sell at almost cost price.
It can be done...
1) We start a Section 21, Non Profit Company. At least 20 founder members, meeting weekly, bi-monthly or at a minimum, monthly. Nationally renowned attorneys and auditors will be used to oversee the NPO.
2) Staff is drawn from the founder members first. Only the small number of staff salaries, medical aid and pension, will need to be covered by the small markup on bulk bandwidth, purchased for resale.
3) Office rental is not required if staff are on laptops, with VOIP or Video conferencing, "working from home". After all, Bandwidth won't be a problem anymore...
Our mission statement: True, Non Profit, Lowest Cost Bandwidth for all.
IM me and let's pool our knowledge to get a proper business plan, founder member list and company name started.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
count me in
How do you propose to get the bandwidth to all those homes?
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People will still be on telkom or neotel, untill someone better comes along.
Who knows where we end up...as long as we start discussing it seriously, since it can be done.
The main idea being the lowering of bandwidth costs for South Africans to as little as it is possible to ever make it. Thus, a Non Profit Company is the solution.
Who knows where we end up...as long as we start discussing it seriously, since it can be done.
The main idea being the lowering of bandwidth costs for South Africans to as little as it is possible to ever make it. Thus, a Non Profit Company is the solution.
Maybe im just putting 2 & 2 together & getting five, but could it be that the new telecomms ministers statement about the telecomms costs in SA having to come down, has something to do do with Eskoms new price increases?
Could it be that Govt & Telkom are feeling the pressure to bring costs down and are trying to secure another source of income in the form of Eskoms higher tariffs before allowing the prices for broadband internet to come to some semblence of normalcy?
i know it sounds radical but one thing ive learnt is that the truth is stranger than fiction
Could it be that Govt & Telkom are feeling the pressure to bring costs down and are trying to secure another source of income in the form of Eskoms higher tariffs before allowing the prices for broadband internet to come to some semblence of normalcy?
i know it sounds radical but one thing ive learnt is that the truth is stranger than fiction