With all the fury and debate going about Telkoms current situation isnt it a good idea to actually take a look behind the scenes? Telkom is remnant from the apartheid era and a Government owned corporation (Correct me if I'm wrong please). At the moment laws prevent any other Service Provider from starting up and rolling out its own infrastructures but instead have to the monopoly's infratrs and or providing a license to other International service providers.
ADSL is crazily overpriced, there is no infrastucture in place to support Cable style communications providers, imagine having Internet, Cable Television, and Telephony provided by one company at a competitive rate, crazy? Well we in SA can only dream of this type of technology, surely if we are poised on the edge of "African Renaisance" it would be vital to start planning well in advance. If the African continent is to arise and take its place among world players then surely a basic thing such as fast internet access for commerce and home users will be vital. We are decades away from this pretty picture and the ironic thing is the powers that be who wish for their people to behind the "Renaisance" are doing nothing to help them into the Digital Age! Untill Thabo Mbeki gets behind the drive to open up Telecoms in this country and makes some serious changes to the law and the Governments attitude towards Telkom, things are not going to change much. But then again why would you want to stop all that lovely cash flowing in from Telkom? The bottom line is that the Big Bully(Telkom) has a secret partner in crime that wants to keep all competitors out that might take a piece of the cake. Lets face it, there some very large Corporates out there that want to get into SA and provide a professional service like they have done in other Countries.
A)Telkom should either provide access to their infrastructure and exchanges and become competitively priced, bandwidth alone will not suffice (Theres hardly any anyways!)
B)The laws MUST be changed to allow other willing enities to start installing their own infrastructure and rolling out new Technologies, once this is in place all prices will be subject to competition = better pricing!
Come on, wake up !
ADSL is crazily overpriced, there is no infrastucture in place to support Cable style communications providers, imagine having Internet, Cable Television, and Telephony provided by one company at a competitive rate, crazy? Well we in SA can only dream of this type of technology, surely if we are poised on the edge of "African Renaisance" it would be vital to start planning well in advance. If the African continent is to arise and take its place among world players then surely a basic thing such as fast internet access for commerce and home users will be vital. We are decades away from this pretty picture and the ironic thing is the powers that be who wish for their people to behind the "Renaisance" are doing nothing to help them into the Digital Age! Untill Thabo Mbeki gets behind the drive to open up Telecoms in this country and makes some serious changes to the law and the Governments attitude towards Telkom, things are not going to change much. But then again why would you want to stop all that lovely cash flowing in from Telkom? The bottom line is that the Big Bully(Telkom) has a secret partner in crime that wants to keep all competitors out that might take a piece of the cake. Lets face it, there some very large Corporates out there that want to get into SA and provide a professional service like they have done in other Countries.
A)Telkom should either provide access to their infrastructure and exchanges and become competitively priced, bandwidth alone will not suffice (Theres hardly any anyways!)
B)The laws MUST be changed to allow other willing enities to start installing their own infrastructure and rolling out new Technologies, once this is in place all prices will be subject to competition = better pricing!
Come on, wake up !
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