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snoopy_inc

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damn straight.

Is it just me or are there ppl that are piggybacking off other ppls effort?


Common ppl get off your arse and help out in any way.

think that RPM should have a section where he askes for certain things to be done and they get done >>>>!!!!

maybe we can have some focus in our effort together
 
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neio

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If only Google would get into the fray.
/me gets on my knee's and starts beging for Google to open a peta byte line to SA.
 
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Skint

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neio said:
If only Google would get into the fray.
/me gets on my knee's and starts beging for Google to open a peta byte line to SA.
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Thats not a bad idea, would do well for them... and it will look good against this latest Yahoo! vs Google thing, Google can be lall like "We helped the starving people in Africa!" and everyone will be like "ooohhhh, yay!!" ... or something :/
 
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mccrack

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Yes, and google would have to purchase that line from Telkom .... doesn't help any.
 
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mccrack

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Hmmmf, the mysterious SNO.

I've been trying to get into contact with someone involved in the SNO.
Called Eskom and the people i spoke to had no idea what the SNO was,
Transtel hasn't bothered responding too several e-mails since last month.....
 
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martin

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Peapod said:
theres always 3 sides to a story as craigsa has said...
his story, her story and the truth.
i have suspected for a long time that Telkom, like the emperor of that childrens story, has no clothes. They have not invested ininfrastructure like they should. They have milked a market they controlled for all it was worth and if you look at their activity over the last year at least, they have diversified into other areas, and they have become heavily involved in other african countries. Telkom knew long before anyone else suspected, that hteir days are numbered. The have set themselves up as a trading vehicle (listing JSE and NYSE) and watch, they will now concentrate heavily on infrastructure in Southern Africa and further afield. i will put good money on it that their end user service delivery (customer/retail) will dwindle and dwindle as they try to dominate the backbone of Southern African Telecomms infrastructural development.
It makes sense too - they can then fix the market price on wholesale telecomms connectivity. clever.
My argument may have holes and flaws - this is just a brain dump but my gut tells me i am on the money.
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Damnit Peapod! Why do you always have to make so much sense. :)
 
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If I was building this infrastructure I would do the following.

Fibre to every Eskom/Transnet(Transtel Owner) Physical Site.

Office Sites, Railway Stations, Sidings, Electrical Substations etc etc.
Wimax tower from there to Users.

User site has a box on wall, with antenna on One end and Utp/Wireless out other end.

International Bandwidth is the Problem, would look at Fibre and Microwave link from Swaziland, Mozambique and Namibia. However, where does Swaziland, Mozambibique etc etc get there bandwidth from.

In my opinion, the high maintenace cost would be keeping the copper running. Why worry about copper and local loops. Local loop will become irrelevant.
 
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