SEACOM testing starts

Maestr0 said:
By reading some of these comments I see that most of the negativity comes from our dear old Cape Town pals.
Click to expand...

Wrong!

Cape Town okes: "Bru... what's SEACOM? Hey... check out the mountain, bru... what new cable?"

:D
 
Maestr0 said:
dude...asseblief...bliksem Australië toe of iets. Julle klomp negatiewe moere is besig om my nou af te pis! :mad:
By reading some of these comments I see that most of the negativity comes from our dear old Cape Town pals.

Funny how the Gauteng guys are all so positive. No wonder we have to carry the rest of the damn country's economy.

Anyways...very excited about this!
Click to expand...

+1:)
 
Maestr0 said:
dude...asseblief...bliksem Australië toe of iets. Julle klomp negatiewe moere is besig om my nou af te pis! :mad:
By reading some of these comments I see that most of the negativity comes from our dear old Cape Town pals.

Funny how the Gauteng guys are all so positive. No wonder we have to carry the rest of the damn country's economy.

Anyways...very excited about this!
Click to expand...

You... YOU.... Provincialist!! :D
 
Last edited:
Can't wait for this fast broadband coming soon to SA. But I think the ISP's is seeing buckets full of money, while we will still paying the same.
 
We've all been waiting for this for a very long time...hope it doesn't disappoint
 
Thats what I love about Gautengers .. they think that because they come to Cape Town on holiday .. that the whole of Cape Town is a holiday town all the time ..

We also would love to be excited about Seacom .. but when last did something positive come out of South African Telecoms ????

Oh .. and just so you know .. GDP per capita is only 14% higher in Gauteng than in Cape Town (2008) .. you just have a much bigger population .. http://www.southafrica.info/about/geography/provinces.htm
 
people who run SA companies must have failed economics at school.
you don't undertake capex without 1st doing the roi to unsure that said capex will
return so much... you can't just spend money & hope to jack up prices to recoup.
i guess our isp are not accountable to shareholders!
 
eltherza said:
Simple:
SEACOM and rest of the world: SEACOM WILL make prices cheaper
South African providers/partners: Seacom WONT make prices cheaper

translation:
seacom will make prices cheaper for providers, but the providers/partners will mark it up to current prices and make huge profits off it.
Click to expand...


I agree with u completely.......we are going to nothing good out of this....we are as usual going to get screwed blue and tattooed....:sick::mad::(
 
During my last couple of trips between Richards Bay and Durban I saw a massive cable laying operation going on next to the highway between Durban and Mtinzini (where the landing station is located)

I assume that this is the last piece of the cable linking up the undersea section to Durban and the rest of the country.

If the rest of the operation runs with so much comitment as I observed, then I have high hopes for this project.

They have people working on almost the whole stretch (+- 150km) all the time. If this was a Helkom operation they would have started on the one end with 10 guys with spades and slowly worked their way up the coast to get the final part in in about a years time.
 
jetlee said:
Thats what I love about Gautengers .. they think that because they come to Cape Town on holiday .. that the whole of Cape Town is a holiday town all the time ..

We also would love to be excited about Seacom .. but when last did something positive come out of South African Telecoms ????

Oh .. and just so you know .. GDP per capita is only 14% higher in Gauteng than in Cape Town (2008) .. you just have a much bigger population .. http://www.southafrica.info/about/geography/provinces.htm
Click to expand...

So Gautengers = Capetoians + Vat.....
 
54% of the GDP comes out of Gauteng... don't think for a second that your little holiday town is even nearly pulling its weight.
 
journeyman said:
Can't wait for this fast broadband coming soon to SA. But I think the ISP's is seeing buckets full of money, while we will still paying the same.
Click to expand...
Exactly the first thought that came to my mind too. I read an article here on mybb recently saying how some analyst fundi was saying how it would take months to years before the new system would be phased in and we'd notice any price changes. I'm sorry but that's hogwash. It's just simple routing changes and some paperwork? It's not something that should take years.
Nice and convenient coverup for the high-tier ISP's to be getting cheaper bandwidth while selling it off to us at the same price and making super profits... I really doubt anyone is stupid enough to fall for that crap.

Bottom line is SEACOM is up, and bandwidth prices should fall dramatically as promised, else the public response won't be pretty.
 
bla bla bla lots of premisses and nothing else.
 
UtterNutter said:
How disappointing. I want to see massively thick cables that imply massive bandwidth. And the control room needs huge cabinets with blinking lights.
Click to expand...

Fine - you take the 'massively thick cables' - I'll stick with the fibre. Thank you.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X