Telkom sub-1GHz interference map shows one reason it is fighting the auction

[Jan]

Spectrum chaos in South Africa

Telkom says that while trying to use emergency network capacity handed out at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, it ran into significant problems.

MyBroadband spoke to Telkom’s head of network planning and engineering Lebo Masalesa, who explained that “digital dividend” frequencies they were told they could use, they found occupied.

 

[Willie Trombone]

Wow... how to go from 0 to 100 -> sympathy for telkom in a few paragraphs.
That's a gemors.

 

[Deandbn]

I personally have no sympathy for the govt.. They bring chaos upon themselves because of their complete ineptitude in all matters.. Whether it be spectrum or roads or railways or electricity or water..
If (in this case) telkom had acted expeditiously as in years ago, other parties would not be using spectrum for signal extension..
Too little too late as always..
Pathetic.

 

[ToxicBunny]

I personally have no sympathy for the govt.. They bring chaos upon themselves because of their complete ineptitude in all matters.. Whether it be spectrum or roads or railways or electricity or water..
If (in this case) telkom had acted expeditiously as in years ago, other parties would not be using spectrum for signal extension..
Too little too late as always..
Pathetic.

Ummm, in this case Telkom is 100% in the right, and the situation is not their doing at all...

These are unregistered and unmarked users of sub 1Ghz spectrum which are causing interference. How exactly does the government think it can auction off spectrum that is currently in use and that the government clearly has zero control over.

 

[genetic]

I personally have no sympathy for the govt.. They bring chaos upon themselves because of their complete ineptitude in all matters.. Whether it be spectrum or roads or railways or electricity or water..
If (in this case) telkom had acted expeditiously as in years ago, other parties would not be using spectrum for signal extension..
Too little too late as always..
Pathetic.

This doesn't make sense...

 

[RudderVator]

In some instances, Telkom even had state-owned signal distributor Sentech or Icasa phoning them to switch off its sites because they had received complaints of interference.

Rofl hope they phoned 10210 or the pinnacle contact center and chose option 3.

 

[genetic]

Ummm, in this case Telkom is 100% in the right, and the situation is not their doing at all...

These are unregistered and unmarked users of sub 1Ghz spectrum which are causing interference. How exactly does the government think it can auction off spectrum that is currently in use and that the government clearly has zero control over.

Exactly.

 

[Deandbn]

I personally have no sympathy for the govt.. They bring chaos upon themselves because of their complete ineptitude in all matters.. Whether it be spectrum or roads or railways or electricity or water..
If (in this case) telkom had acted expeditiously as in years ago, other parties would not be using spectrum for signal extension..
Too little too late as always..
Pathetic.

Ummm, in this case Telkom is 100% in the right, and the situation is not their doing at all...

These are unregistered and unmarked users of sub 1Ghz spectrum which are causing interference. How exactly does the government think it can auction off spectrum that is currently in use and that the government clearly has zero control over.

Umm.. If telkom / sabc / govt had provided TV signal coverage many years ago.. Range extenders would not be required.
Umm.. If telkom / sabc / govt had sorted out cell phone / data / spectrum out many years ago there would also not be the spectrum problem currently.

 

[ToxicBunny]

I personally have no sympathy for the govt.. They bring chaos upon themselves because of their complete ineptitude in all matters.. Whether it be spectrum or roads or railways or electricity or water..
If (in this case) telkom had acted expeditiously as in years ago, other parties would not be using spectrum for signal extension..
Too little too late as always..
Pathetic.
Umm.. If telkom / sabc / govt had provided TV signal coverage many years ago.. Range extenders would not be required.
Umm.. If telkom / sabc / govt had sorted out cell phone / data / spectrum out many years ago there would also not be the spectrum problem currently.

Ummm TV Signal is NOT Telkoms area of management, its Sentech.

And every country has the spectrum problem, not just SA... where we are failing is that we didn't kill the analog signal over a decade ago, again NOT Telkoms fault.

 

[Deandbn]

Ummm TV Signal is NOT Telkoms area of management, its Sentech.

And every country has the spectrum problem, not just SA... where we are failing is that we didn't kill the analog signal over a decade ago, again NOT Telkoms fault.

Exactly Mr ToxicBunny.. It doesn't matter if I call it telkom / icasa / govt /sabc / radio port natal or Jacarandas.. Same thing.. The people in power should. Have sorted it years ago..

 

[ToxicBunny]

Exactly Mr ToxicBunny.. It doesn't matter if I call it telkom / icasa / govt /sabc / radio port natal or Jacarandas.. Same thing.. The people in power should. Have sorted it years ago..

Actually it does...

Telkom has not been a wholly owned SOE for over 20 years, so it is distinctly different from ICASA/Govt/SABC, and even when it was a wholly owned SOE it would still have been a fully standalone company in terms of operations and responsibilities.

 

[Johnatan56]

Spectrum chaos in South Africa

Telkom says that while trying to use emergency network capacity handed out at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, it ran into significant problems.

MyBroadband spoke to Telkom’s head of network planning and engineering Lebo Masalesa, who explained that “digital dividend” frequencies they were told they could use, they found occupied.

Ah, you finally post one of the actual issues, nice.
Would be great if you could question what interference Vodacom, MTN and CellC have for the bands they are bidding.

 

[Swa]

I personally have no sympathy for the govt.. They bring chaos upon themselves because of their complete ineptitude in all matters.. Whether it be spectrum or roads or railways or electricity or water..
If (in this case) telkom had acted expeditiously as in years ago, other parties would not be using spectrum for signal extension..
Too little too late as always..
Pathetic.

This is someone who will blame Telkom for everything. If I stump my toe it must be Telkom's fault.

I'm glad mybb published this. Now people can see Telkom's concerns and legal actions aren't unfounded. If will be even worse with the permanent spectrum as that's still officially owned by Sentech.

 

[Kawak]

This to me is enough reason to dissolve ICASA and reappoint the entire entity, when receiving a complaint, they shut down the legal user to enable the illegal actions to continue without hinderence. How "authoritative" these people are boggles my mind.

Like all the Gov entities, it's those that cry, shout, protest the loudest that become "rightful owners/users", we should teach "how to protest", "how best to throw trash on the streets" and "how to loot" in life orientation, seems to be the only language this Gov listens to and therefore becomes survival 101.

 

[markings]

Govt or ICASA must tell e-TV that analog signals must be switched off. Once that happens all the repeaters will be useless and pobably be switched off. If not, ICASA must go and find them and switch them off themselves.

 

[r00igev@@r]

Just send out the inspectors to confiscated the equipment that is interfering. Oh, they sitting in their offices doing fokol and eating KFC.

 

[Rouxenator]

I have no sympathy. In fact I am glad to hear telkom is suffering. They did nothing but hold us back when they had the monopoly. Karma is a bitch. I hope telkom dies.

 

[47Ronin]

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[ToxicBunny]

In regards to Telkom, It is a love hate relationship but needless to say Telkom is on its last legs and will be the tax payers burden for many years to come. So realistically South Africa is late to the table with mobile technology and in all honesty it wasn't a bad thing.

Back in 1998 I tried to get my hands on a better internet line and it never happened. In fact I had a phone call with them back in the day and they simply said "your area will never be upgraded" And yes Telkom never upgraded our area. To date the same phone line that they installed in the 1990s is still serving this property. Fact is the line is so bad now that the land lord had decided to pull the plug on it this month. See they don't even repair existing structure.

That said their mobile infrastructure is better, better then Cell C and their prices is better then Vodacom when it comes to prepaid. Now As we all know Cell C use trained messenger pigeons to send data and they get lost from time to time. But Telkom one-up them with smoke signals Vodacom and MTN are both insane and if you look at their new LTE product line you can smell the BS so i guess they use the speed of stink to send data.

So yea 2022 looks like a dung beetle ball that has been spit shined and polished to make us believe we are getting more and things are getting better but all of us just know that somehow in some amazing way it will all just be another BS storm heading our way.

How is telkom on its last legs or a burden to tax payers out of interest?

 

[47Ronin]

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