State backing for broadband as development tool

A broadband Internet connection might be considered a luxury by the many people who still lack access to basic amenities such as clean drinking water and electricity.
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it might but that does not mean there are not many who don't want it...this is a sample mail of many received asking for advice on getting an internet connection - common denominator is telkom costs

My name is monica XXXXXXX, I am staying in Township Mfuleni.
I have a computer in my house, but I don't have Telephone
Line. I would like to connect to Internet Wireless. If you
have any informations about The Internet service Wireless,
about the Cost, please let me know. call me: 073XXXXXXX
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The government has identified ICT as one of the key factors in stimulating economic growth
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We've been shouting this for I don't know how long now, and they have just "identified" it!
I just shake my head in despair.:confused:
 
more talk.. till I see action and prices go down this means little.
 
It is to lower this cost that the government wants to deregulate the sector and license a second national fixed-line operator that would compete with Telkom


......it wants to license a second national fixed-line op?


.......okay then....Someone needs to mail the SNO an tell em that they still need to get licensed. Apparently they didn't get it right :)
 
She listed some of the strategic objectives of her department:

* Accelerate the use of ICT as a tool in all spheres of government delivery of socioeconomic development;
* Facilitate the development and improve the sustainability of small businesses in the ICT and other sectors;
* Contribute to national safety and security through ICT; and
* Facilitate access to ICT by women, people with disabilities, youngsters and children.
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those seem awfully vague to me... for example they could be saying (first point above)

-We will now email everyone their electricity bills.
 
He said Telkom should drop its infrastructure costs. It charges between R270 and R680 for 1 Mbyte per second connectivity.
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Grr... :mad:

Please show me the 8 Mbps ("1 Mbyte per second") that I can get for R680...
please :mad:
 
"Broadband is a transmission technology capable of supporting a wide range of frequencies, from audio up to video, and it allows cheaper and faster access to the Internet."
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We have another PC illetrate that simply does not do his homework. Please define broadband correctly. Transmission technology my big hairy ... Wide range of frequencies..... Make the nonsense stop.
 
/me checks to make sure that it's not April 1 (part 2)

Ok so it's not some sort of April fool's joke. Do these guys really believe all that schitte they spout? And are there really people gullible enough to believe it?
 
R4tt3xx said:
We have another PC illetrate that simply does not do his homework. Please define broadband correctly. Transmission technology my big hairy ... Wide range of frequencies..... Make the nonsense stop.
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il·lit·er·ate (ĭ-lĭt'ər-ĭt) pronunciation
adj.
1. Marked by inferiority to an expected standard of familiarity with language and literature.
2. Violating prescribed standards of speech or writing.
 
mando said:
il·lit·er·ate (ĭ-lĭt'ər-ĭt) pronunciation
adj.
1. Marked by inferiority to an expected standard of familiarity with language and literature.
2. Violating prescribed standards of speech or writing.
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LOL - Illiterate complains about the illiterate. Sad.

But on the subject of the Government blah, blah, blah.
Talk is cheap. If it took them 6-8 years to realise this, it will also take them thesame amount of time to MAYBE put their initiative into practice.

Same as the million houses in 5/10 years, bollocks and more bollocks.

The lot of them should be sacked and be deported for lying and corruption.
Perhaps Robert Mugabe could take them in? :D
 
Power of Words - What does this mean?

I've read ... then re-read the article, but after all the spin-doctering, empty words and bewildering statements, I'm still left wondering - what does this actually translate into?

I see no indication of resolutions being implemented. No action which can be monitored. No accountability for delivery within any given timeframe.

I agree, this has been going on for far too long. I'm glad that government has finally acknowledge that something needs to be done, but we need much more than just words.

I may be jaded from past experience, but this article looks like yet another daydream being babbled into the public domain. When I was younger, I dreamt I was a superhero, battling villains and bringing justice into the world. That was a good daydream for me - nothing materilised from it. It couldn't. It lacked any real substance or basis in reality ... much like this article lacks substance :(
 
Davidj81 said:
We've been shouting this for I don't know how long now, and they have just "identified" it!
I just shake my head in despair.:confused:
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Ja, they just identified it and now they can rest a while because they've "done" something.
 
I'm getting overly tired of govt identifying the problems and not doing anything about it. Talk talk and just more talk and talk.
We all know what the problems are over and over -we don't need ANOTHER angle on what the problems are. Please!!!
Just bring the bloody prices down - inline with global trends and growth will take off.
 
He said Telkom should drop its infrastructure costs. It charges between R270 and R680 for 1 Mbyte per second connectivity.
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Umm... they don't even know how much Telkom charges and how fast the connections are... R270 for a 1Mbyte/s connection? Give me one now! Does he know about the cap.

Seriously, allowing people that knows nothing about the situation to speak to the public only makes them look even more incompetant and idiotic than they already are. We should implement a new law which requires everyone working for the government to at least have a primary school certificate. Sinch those children probably know more than these idiots do.
 
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