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Telkom plans to offer pay-TV services across its broadband lines.
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Wonder if they realise they will have to do something quite drastic about their rediculous capping policy to even stand a chance for this to work. Unless of course it runs seperately from the internet access part.
 
-- Neotel, which is already offering bandwidth to ISPs, should begin offering its first services to corporate clients by the end of 2006. The residential market will follow in the first quarter of 2007.
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Which ISPs sell Neotel bandwidth already?
 
Yeah which ISP's are getting their bandwidth from Neotel because I'd gladly support them. C'mon it's a marketing plus. Own up.
 
dont think any isp's are getting from neotel. I thought Telkom had sole rights till April 2007, making them the only company that can provide bandwidth?
Only corporate services Neotel provide is i think switching and routing calls, mostly international, and some other basic stuff..
I may be wrong pls correct me if i am
 
yah was wondering the same.. also if it is cheaper then we have not seen difference in the end cost of products.
 
Just get rid of Her Nosiopness, overhaul IncompetentCASA, and release the SAT3 into the public domain.

Leave the rest to sort it out amongst themselves.
 
Can't release the sat3.
Telkom has a share, they made an investment and cant be expected to just give it up...Its a little unfair.on a company to ask that... But we definately need other cables so it competes with the sat3 so the b$astards cant charge 10 times what it costs for bandwidth..
 
rendan said:
Can't release the sat3.
Telkom has a share, they made an investment and cant be expected to just give it up...Its a little unfair.on a company to ask that... But we definately need other cables so it competes with the sat3 so the b$astards cant charge 10 times what it costs for bandwidth..
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it will all be wonderfully true if it weren't for the fact that Telkom invested in SAT3 when it was still a Parastatal. South African tax payer money bought Telkom's share in SAT3.
 
yip. I suppose ur right when u put it that way.... so infact the government should be selling sat3 bandwidth at cost.
 
rendan said:
yip. I suppose ur right when u put it that way.... so infact the government should be selling sat3 bandwidth at cost.
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It only requires SAT-3 being declared as an "essential facility" so that government can regulate resale cost. Something that Ivy herself has said she wanted to see done by the 19th of January '07.

Of course with ICASA doing the actual work to get us there, expect word some time in 2008.
 
eremos said:
It only requires SAT-3 being declared as an "essential facility" so that government can regulate resale cost. Something that Ivy herself has said she wanted to see done by the 19th of January '07.

Of course with ICASA doing the actual work to get us there, expect word some time in 2008.
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Never is more likely.

The only 'revelation' in this sector will come if Neotel gets full rights on its rumored higher stake in SAT-3 and resells bandwidth to everyone cheaper. Instead of jumping on the SA gravy train aka CellC, Virgin. (not that that helped them all that much, lol).
 
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