Telkom MSAN Rollout Plan

DoubleJ

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So this is a gigantic stab in the dark, but does anyone know if telkom publish their upgrade project plans?

The reason i ask is that I've been told by the Telkom technician who frequents my house that they (telkom) will be installing MSANs in my area soon (Bryanston West). Problem is that I've been hearing this story for over 8 months now...

I'd love to have a line that actually stays sync'd for more than a few hours!
 
Telkom 40Mbps and 20Mbps launch areas revealed

A spokesperson for Telkom said that the commercial launch of its 20Mbps and 40Mbps VDSL products in March 2013 will initially be in the same regions as the VDSL pilot areas, namely around the 52 upgraded street distribution cabinets.

Telkom is currently piloting its high speed VDSL broadband service in Benmore Gardens, Fourways and Waterkloof in Gauteng; Durban North in Kwa-Zulu Natal and Durbanville in the Western Cape.

Telkom said that the number of areas where its 20Mbps and 40Mbps VDSL services are available will grow over time as roll-out progresses.

The company further confirmed that there will be a tracker where users can check whether their exchange is 20Mbps and 40Mbps enabled.
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According to the tech I spoke to (cable infrastructure guy), they will have all 011 462 and 463 lines to MSANs by August, but all 462 to MSANs are planned for the end of April

Moore's Law in action (I hope)
 
I'm desperate to get a timeline for 021 794 xxxx... I hope they use the new fibre infrastructure they laid last year! Can't find any techies doing ground work though.
 
agentrfr said:
According to the tech I spoke to (cable infrastructure guy), they will have all 011 462 and 463 lines to MSANs by August, but all 462 to MSANs are planned for the end of April

Moore's Law in action (I hope)
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i really hope so. I'm sitting with a 462 number... but i've been hearing this from the techs for ages.

(fingers crossed)
 
Telkom is so badly managed it's not funny any more. It is high time the government allowed other operators to start up - in the UK if your Telecoms operator gives you grief you can switch operators within 24 hours. Until Telkom experiences a mass-exodus they won't pull their finger out of their arse!
 
FlatspinZA said:
Telkom is so badly managed it's not funny any more. It is high time the government allowed other operators to start up - in the UK if your Telecoms operator gives you grief you can switch operators within 24 hours. Until Telkom experiences a mass-exodus they won't pull their finger out of their arse!
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Any licenced operated can already build their own network if they so desired.
 
^ yes but they don't have a copper mine or 20 odd years of infrastructure investment to utilize

- nor do they have a confused shareholder
 
I know I'm already plugged into an MSAN (fourways), I just hope I'll be eligible for the speed boost when its available. I apparently wasn't eligible for the test period :(
 
Last four months they have been installing fiber between the green Telkom boxes in our area.
Two months ago started construction of MSAN concrete base.
Just before Holidays they installed the box.

So look out for fibre installation between Telkom Green boxes .
 
if you have a proper telecommunications market the urban vs rural divide shouldn't be a major issue because the disadvantages which sparsely populated areas have is often helped out by the fact that you don't have congestion and therefore wireless solutions are able to be delivered at higher speeds reliably.

As I see it the question of communications to a rural homestead can be dealt with by WiMax what is important is to get handover to the fixed infrastructure at the correct point in the chain. With remote desktop and virtualization technology having advanced the way it has you could even get to the point where high computing demand rural users simply connect by desktop terminal into a data center - so the fact that your link is only a 4 meg line is irrelevant if you display and audio is streamed between home and the datacenter which is sitting on a metroethernet structure. Of course there is not currently a single ISP which offers such a product conveniently.
The bottom line is cloud computing depends more on reliability of connection than on speed. Trying to provide identical service to the entire country has just prevented broadband penetration for everybody.
 
saliehendricks said:
Doesn't sound like these roll outs intend to bring decent broadband to poorer areas whatsoever. This is sad.
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Why would they?

If you were the owner of a luxury car dealership, would you locate it in a squatter camp?

I do agree with the sentiment though.

Access to decent broadband have proved time and time again that it helps people to uplift themselves.
 
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