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Streets are humming

Next time you're cursing the trenches and gaping holes in SA's roads - being dug by telecommunications companies to pull new ducting for fibre-optic cables - consider this: all the electronic communications traffic carried by all the operators in SA today would use less than 3% of the potential fibre capacity in one of those new ducts.
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Nice article :D Have to admit... I can't wait to sink my claws into the full potential of "true broadband." I expect I'll break out my first wrinkle by then.
 
I was stuck in a major traffic jam 2 weeks back taking my kids to school in Bedfordview. Turned out to be some okes cutting slits in the road and laying cables. I have never been so happy to be stuck in traffic. Was also impressed by the little slit being carved out the tar, now I know who it was. Very impressive. They were in the area a few days and in that short time laid kms and kms of cable with hardly a sign left they were there.

Brilliant... You guys are welcome to block traffic wherever you want to get cables laid. We will all be very thankful later :)
 
I don't mind the digging up at all. It is the traffic lights that don't work properly that P me off big time. Either they are completely dead (might be thanks to Eksdom) or they are stuck on red. Or they have been set way to short and only 5 (very slow) cars get through... or they have had their turning arrow removed. The traffic authorities are to blame ten times more for the traffic snarls. Yesterday I drove up Heidelberg road.. .and traffic was slowed down to one lane... while one lonely bloke was painting an arrow in the far lane... and all his pals were watching him from the bakkie parked in the middle lane. Why TF do you have to close down two lanes to paint one arrow?
 
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All the current traffic in SA would use less than 3% of the fibre capacity in one new duct
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Think how much real car traffic we could remove from the roads if we had the infrastructure to enable people to work from home and be in a virtual office. (I realize some people like to get out of their home on occasion :))
and @ Garyvdh re arrow painting..why always in rush hour, why not late on Sunday night etc. Overtime is cheap compared to 1000 cars stuck for an hour...
 
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I have only one complaint - not about the actual trenching, but rather the aftermath and how long the mess is left before it gets fixed. As I understand it, this is not the fault of the companies doing the trenching, it is the fault of municipalities that insist on giving the road repair work to specific subcontractors [nepotism methinks] instead of letting the trenching companies do the road repairs at the time when the trenching is being done.

I assume this doesn't apply to DFA since DFA uses those expensive machines that do everything including filling up the trenches with tar, and have somehow managed to convince municipalities that the machines do a better job...
 
Tommygun said:
Overtime is cheap compared to 1000 cars stuck for an hour...
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They pay the overtime but not the cost for the 1000 cars stuck in traffic.:mad:
Why should they care about Rmillions that is wasted when their systems are not working. Nobody even raises an issue about it never mind invoicing them. If they can save a R1000, they have more money for their Xmas party and bonusses.:rolleyes::mad:
 
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Every time I see these articles I can't help wondering where I've heard it all before :rolleyes:
 
Tommygun said:
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Think how much real car traffic we could remove from the roads if we had the infrastructure to enable people to work from home and be in a virtual office. (I realize some people like to get out of their home on occasion :))
and @ Garyvdh re arrow painting..why always in rush hour, why not late on Sunday night etc. Overtime is cheap compared to 1000 cars stuck for an hour...
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I actually think we would have much less "Global warming" if that were only possible. Its just hard to keep track of employees when they are at home.

But still i'd rather work in my home than work in a office with people i don't really like.

Who here can actually say they work with people that don't irritate the ***** out of you sometimes?
 
Lycanthrope said:
Nice article :D Have to admit... I can't wait to sink my claws into the full potential of "true broadband." I expect I'll break out my first wrinkle by then.
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"sink my claws" - a pun? :p :D

Nice to hear... I really do hope the Altech case gets resolved soon with a major setback for the DoC, !casa and Her Poison Ivyness.
 
Let bring it home...

I know we js taking it babysteps but I already can't wait for a time when it will be commercially viable for Fibre-To-The-Home to be cost effective for the average consumer!

Cant wait!:)
 
spykoss said:
I know we js taking it babysteps but I already can't wait for a time when it will be commercially viable for Fibre-To-The-Home to be cost effective for the average consumer!

Cant wait!:)
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Yup and pigs will fly over moon. Not happening anytome in the next 20 years. South Africa is too spread out. Its viable for Europe coz the majority of the people live in flats etc, while putting fibre to the home for everyone that can afford it (not a lot of people) and the cost to build such a network is unfeasible. Unless ofcourse gated services skyrocket and everybody moves into a complex...
 
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