Sentech will land ACE cable in SA

Why does Sentech get chance after chance after chance? They mess up and get off each time, and now they get this?
 
I share the sentiment that the more submarine cables there are, the better.
pkid said:
Why Sentech though? Now we will only have 50% uptime on the cable :(
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Shred said:
Why does Sentech get chance after chance after chance? They mess up and get off each time, and now they get this?
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But I also cannot understand why Sentech is getting in on this, or why Sentech [as a 100% guavamint owned parastatal known to have failed in the broadband arena] has been allowed by guavamint to manage a landing station and the bandwidth that will be represented by the new cable when it is completed.

I would have expected Broadband Infraco to be in on this, and while Broadband Infraco is still a parastatal that is wet behind the ears, at least Broadband Infraco does not have Sentech's abysmal reputation.
 
ic said:
I share the sentiment that the more submarine cables there are, the better.But I also cannot understand why Sentech is getting in on this, or why Sentech [as a 100% guavamint owned parastatal known to have failed in the broadband arena] has been allowed by guavamint to manage a landing station and the bandwidth that will be represented by the new cable when it is completed.

I would have expected Broadband Infraco to be in on this, and while Broadband Infraco is still a parastatal that is wet behind the ears, at least Broadband Infraco does not have Sentech's abysmal reputation.
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That's not entirely fair to Sentech. While their consumer offering was a complete ****up, it was largely due to them not receiving financing from government to set up a viable system. Due to its parastatal makeup Sentech is not allowed to raise capital in any other way. i.e. Sentech is not allowed to borrow money from banks, it can only be financed by government.

Sentech's TV and Radio distribution is managed well, but the DTT rollout is delayed again, not due to incompetence, but because of lack of funding.
 
arf9999 said:
That's not entirely fair to Sentech. While their consumer offering was a complete ****up, it was largely due to them not receiving financing from government to set up a viable system. Due to its parastatal makeup Sentech is not allowed to raise capital in any other way. i.e. Sentech is not allowed to borrow money from banks, it can only be financed by government.

Sentech's TV and Radio distribution is managed well, but the DTT rollout is delayed again, not due to incompetence, but because of lack of funding.
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IMO Sentech should stick to TV+Radio signal distribution, and should not venture into waters where it hasn't got a clue [i.e. broadband - for that guavamint has Broadband Infraco].

Yes of course it is true that The National Treasury refused to fund Sentech's MyWireless expansion, and that is why MyWireless stagnated and could not grow and eventually died - despite Poison Ivy's and Stalin-Mafole's efforts to secure funding for Sentech [not just MyWireless but also rural Wifi projects AFAIK], but by that time Sentech had earned itself such a bad reputation with consumers that I hazard a guess someone within The National Treasury realised that Sentech was just not up to the task of running a broadband network, and that private companies were better equipped and far more likely to succeed with private funding.

All very much debatable, but I think one can reasonably apportion significant blame on Sentech for the failure of MyWireless, the lack of expansion one can say was definitely due to a lack of funding, but should one really throw more good money at bad management...
 
So what happens when Government decides to not give Sentech funding again, we end up with a 1.92 Tbps cable connected 2 one PC at the landing station?

If you look at Sentech's wasted WiMax spectrum I can see this cable going to waste as well.
 
elL0L said:
One day there will be more cables than fish in the sea.
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wonder if there is more data than fish already :wtf:

But seriously do we even need more cables are we really maxing the other cables to such an extent that more cables is necessary

I for 1 think not :whistle:
 
ACSA

arf9999 said:
Due to its parastatal makeup Sentech is not allowed to raise capital in any other way. i.e. Sentech is not allowed to borrow money from banks, it can only be financed by government.
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ACSA is probably more of a Gov monopoly than Sentech
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that NEVER stopped them from getting money on the open market
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MW
 
Mineer said:
wonder if there is more data than fish already :wtf:

But seriously do we even need more cables are we really maxing the other cables to such an extent that more cables is necessary

I for 1 think not :whistle:
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Still a couple more to come

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EASSy_(cable_system)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WACS_(cable_system)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACE_(cable_system)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_One_(cable_system)

Once all these cables have landed international traffic will be dirt cheap but we will still be paying R6k per 1MBs for local :-/
 
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alt21 said:
So what happens when Government decides to not give Sentech funding again, we end up with a 1.92 Tbps cable connected 2 one PC at the landing station?

If you look at Sentech's wasted WiMax spectrum I can see this cable going to waste as well.
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That is a very good point. Tax payers money thrown in the ocean.
 
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