Starlink could have a long wait for Malatsi's proposed BEE equivalence programme

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Starlink black ownership plan in South Africa

Communications minister Solly Malatsi is talking to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) about creating an equity equivalent programme for multinational telecommunications companies, MyBroadband has learned.

This is in preparation for issuing a policy direction that Icasa urgently consider implementing such a programme, which would provide an alternative way for overseas companies to meet South Africa's BEE ownership requirements.
 
What slight negativity from MyBB musk fan boys about starlink, I don’t believe it.
@epah

But an important point for those who claim starlink is the solution to everything, wireless will never beat fibre, there simply not enough bandwidth. They even struggling in rural USA now with capacity issues.

“It has even paused Starlink sales to users around certain major cities, with its availability map showing the area as “sold out”.

Affected cities include Maputo in Mozambique, Harare in Zimbabwe, Lusaka in Zambia, Nairobi in Kenya, Accra in Ghana, and Port Harcourt, Warri, Benin City, Lagos and Abuja in Nigeria.

Based on user feedback, Starlink’s service has experienced significant speed degradation in recent months, suggesting that its capacity over Africa is under strain.”
 
DStvNothingOn said:
What slight negativity from MyBB musk fan boys about starlink, I don’t believe it.
@epah

But an important point for those who claim starlink is the solution to everything, wireless will never beat fibre, there simply not enough bandwidth. They even struggling in rural USA now with capacity issues.

“It has even paused Starlink sales to users around certain major cities, with its availability map showing the area as “sold out”.

Affected cities include Maputo in Mozambique, Harare in Zimbabwe, Lusaka in Zambia, Nairobi in Kenya, Accra in Ghana, and Port Harcourt, Warri, Benin City, Lagos and Abuja in Nigeria.

Based on user feedback, Starlink’s service has experienced significant speed degradation in recent months, suggesting that its capacity over Africa is under strain.”
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you're comparing Starlink's problems caused by over subscription to South Africans not being able to benefit from it because our Government wants to steal 30% of it off the top for doing nothing lol?

And when the Chinese equivalent (but rubbish) comes and all of a sudden the red tape magically falls away and 30%'s appear like flying unicorns what will you reason be for that happening? The requirements that are keeping Starlink out will just magically fall away will they?

or if a local ISP like MTN or Vodacom partner up for the service and the cadres get their bit, thats acceptable? As long as it was not foreign investment?

and wireless WILL ALWAYS beat Fiber in areas where it is not worth rolling out due to costs, geographic restrictions or simply just possible given the terrain. I have not seen an ONT floating in the middle of the Atlantic, nor randomly lying in the African bush, in fact not even in half the rural townships.
 
DStvNothingOn said:
What slight negativity from MyBB musk fan boys about starlink, I don’t believe it.
@epah

But an important point for those who claim starlink is the solution to everything, wireless will never beat fibre, there simply not enough bandwidth. They even struggling in rural USA now with capacity issues.
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Blah blah blah.
Who claims Starlink is the solution to everything? You have bubbles in your head boet.
DStvNothingOn said:
“It has even paused Starlink sales to users around certain major cities, with its availability map showing the area as “sold out”.

Affected cities include Maputo in Mozambique, Harare in Zimbabwe, Lusaka in Zambia, Nairobi in Kenya, Accra in Ghana, and Port Harcourt, Warri, Benin City, Lagos and Abuja in Nigeria.

Based on user feedback, Starlink’s service has experienced significant speed degradation in recent months, suggesting that its capacity over Africa is under strain.”
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It beat everything in my hood hands down, so there's no way anyone could argue that where I'm from.
 
Typical ANC with tiger skinned begging bowl demanding the world finance it own incompetence and low IQ. I certainly would never consider using Starlink simply on the basis of Musks current stance and the ANC's belief that they are entitled to something, they have no claim to,... as the song says the ANC wants money for nothing.
 
Usual leeches stealing everything they can get their thieving paws on.
Fibre came to this little town.
Dug up trenches all over the place.
The bribe was not big enough to the stealing comrades.
Now all we have is more fusked roads.
 

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So which portion of the 30% is going to get it? Your Government? They don't want to work for it? Never heard of a country who wants to profit of something, but it must be given to them. SA probably has the worst DEI policies in the world. Yet they don't get rid of it. Weird they don't get the bigger picture.
 
Ownership means you bought something.

Begging bowl in hand for 30% "ownership".

Elon must tell them to go and JUMP.
 
In Kenya, starlink charges an extra 16% over and above VAT for the government tax n- How easy and simple is that and it goes straight to the fiscus without anyone playing piggy in the middle.
 
Curious. No government can stop Musk from beaming signals from space. They would have to enforce from the consumer side. Which is bad for votes.

Instead of embracing innovation, Africanacity comes into play where they celebrate converting a pizza box into a laptop stand to attract ants to the motherboard (insert real ABSA ad here)
 
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