Telkom blasts MWEB’s transit cut decision

The Trutherizer said:
Aww... Can't you do better than: "Boohoo! Dey don't wanna play with me anymore mommy!"?

Wise up Telkom!

We don't like your policies.
We don't like your prices.
We don't even like yo' momma! ('Cause she's butt ugly.. :/ )

And I hope you die :>

In fact... I would like it if MWeb stopped paying for peering with you even if it cost exactly the same.

It's because you could not compete even if you wanted.
Your salaries are too high.
Your bonuses are too big. (Jus' like yo momma :/ )
You make shady deals left and right.
And you invest hundreds of millions if not billions into literally nothing yearly.

You could not compete if you wanted to :p

And I hope you die :>

Primarily because I do not like to pay R1500 a year for the ****ty bit of cable that connects me to my local exchange -_- Can you wrap your **** for brains collective head around that bit of information? Maybe you think copper wire is magical, but trust me it's not -_-
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It's opinions like this that make me happy I am not alone as a MWEB fanboi.
 
Gathu said:
I'm a non-IT professional, so please explain to me why it is cheaper to go through international bandwidth to get to the hosted sites than through local bandwidth? Or am I reading it wrong?
Another question I would like to ask - a Non-gaming site in South Africa where latency is less of an issue will still see the same amount of traffic, but just coming in through the international link instead of the local link as before - so who is paying for that network capability? Same for a locally hosted site with an large international following - who is paying for that?
Unless this whole 'local peering is more expensive than international bandwidth' is just a bunch of ***ka, it sound to a IT-noob like me that somebody is indeed profiteering somewhere, using my money to pad their shareholders pockets. From my perspective it seems like MWEB is going the right route, unless somebody can tell me in babyspeak why I'm wrong.
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Basically MTN and Telkom are screwing us, without getting technical. MTN and Telkom are charging more for 10 meters of copper cable and a couple of routers than SEACOM are charging for 13000km of undersea fibre optic cable.
 
Gathu said:
I'm a non-IT professional, so please explain to me why it is cheaper to go through international bandwidth to get to the hosted sites than through local bandwidth? Or am I reading it wrong?
Another question I would like to ask - a Non-gaming site in South Africa where latency is less of an issue will still see the same amount of traffic, but just coming in through the international link instead of the local link as before - so who is paying for that network capability? Same for a locally hosted site with an large international following - who is paying for that?
Unless this whole 'local peering is more expensive than international bandwidth' is just a bunch of ***ka, it sound to a IT-noob like me that somebody is indeed profiteering somewhere, using my money to pad their shareholders pockets. From my perspective it seems like MWEB is going the right route, unless somebody can tell me in babyspeak why I'm wrong.
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Local peering is so expensive because because we have to pay rocket scientists with 7 Phd's to install and maintain the local peering connections - also, the local peering connections are made of pure gold (which we obtain by melting down Kruger Rands).

Whereas the international connections are installed and maintained by east coast pirates (and they subsidise their operational costs via high seas piracy) and their cable is made of sand, yes sand, which they simply collect from the desert, leave in the sun for long enough until it turns to glass (then they call it fiber-optic just to sound clever).

Remember, you heard it here first.
 
Jab said:
Also the item is manufactured locally, thus the international online retailer first import the item from your locality and then ship it back.
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Good point! Like steel, and other commodities, which cost more locally than when exported...

Also: Supply on international bandwidth is now effectively unlimited (Tbps fiber), while locally it is limited by monopolies and vested interests.
 
Right, and hogging the local loop is in the spirit of the Internet community :rolleyes:

F0AD Telkom.
 
AfricanTech said:
Local peering is so expensive because because we have to pay rocket scientists with 7 Phd's to install and maintain the local peering connections - also, the local peering connections are made of pure gold (which we obtain by melting down Kruger Rands).

Whereas the international connections are installed and maintained by east coast pirates (and they subsidise their operational costs via high seas piracy) and their cable is made of sand, yes sand, which they simply collect from the desert, leave in the sun for long enough until it turns to glass (then they call it fiber-optic just to sound clever).

Remember, you heard it here first.
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Good lord, you almost made me spit tea all over my screen.
 
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