Telkom to provide telecoms infrastructure for 2010 FIFA World Cup

[TheREV]

Oh my! tilskim reliable? hahahahahahahahahahha (cue men in white coats to take me away).

So, what does this mean?

Traffic for FIFA (THE GOD OF EVERYTHING) will be prioritised - because telskommel will not want to look stupid. The rest of us will suffer 10b/s throughput and be told "We are working on the problem".

Fscking retards. They should be hit with a class action lawsuit for stealing our hard-earned money every month.

 

[Tux]

Traffic for FIFA (THE GOD OF EVERYTHING) will be prioritised - because telskommel will not want to look stupid. The rest of us will suffer 10b/s throughput and be told "We are working on the problem".

What? telkom ever admit to having problems? That would be the day....

 

[swim]

So price 4 bandwith go's up, up up up up up

 

[Bona Botse]

So price 4 bandwith go's up, up up up up up

and away!

 

[XCentricdave]

This was formalised earlier today when Telkom became a National Supporter of the 2010 FIFA World Cup following a signing ceremony between FIFA General Secretary, Jerome Valcke, and Telkom’s acting CEO, Reuben September, at SAFA House in Johannesburg.

I've got to get a coffee. I read this as a 'singing ceremony', which would actually have been more fun...

 

[bekdik]

Never mind them actually making use of the cap!

FIFA: We need 10 Data lines installed at the stadium

Telkom: Sorry we are waiting for ports to become available ETA is the 1st of February 2011, have a lovely day.

Rubbish. FIFA would have to call at least 100 times before getting an answer

 

[bekdik]

The cable system is planned to be commissioned and ready for service by early 2009, with construction expected to start later this year. The SEA System has a design capacity of 1.28 Tbps, in order to support the expected exponential increase in demand in 2010 and beyond.

backup is a 56K modem ...

 

[mavx]

What he Said:

“The Presidency welcomes this agreement with Telkom and is encouraged by Telkom’s commitment to the development of Information and Communication Technology in this country. This is good for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and wonderful for South Africa.”

Translated:

“We in position of power welcome this agreement and are encouraged by the amount of money we will receive as a result of development of Information and Communication Technology in this country. This is good for bugger all and wonderful for my holiday abroad.”

 

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AFAIK, Telkodemonopolies' international bandwidth into and out of SA, is a combination of SAT-2 + SAT-3 + SAFE + satellite, and Telkodemonopolies claims that it is not throttling SAT-3 & SAFE bandwidth - which we all know is a lie bcos Telkodemonopolies has been limiting the supply of SAT-3 bandwidth to maximise its monopolistic profits since 2002 when SAT-3 came online, and charging about 5 times more than it should for bandwidth going out of SA.

So, my question is, does FIFA [another monopoly BTW] know all this, and does FIFA actually think that Telkodemonopolies has sufficient submarine bandwidth [unthrottled] to cope with 2010 bandwidth requirements - those requirements are going to be huge for live HDTV broadcasts to multiple countries around the world...

Sadly guavamint interference in SA's ICT sector does mean that Telkodemonopolies is currently FIFA's only potential bandwidth supplier, but it just makes me wonder what shady deals & discussions have been going on behind closed doors between Telkodemonopolies and FIFA.

 

[arf9999]

AFAIK, Telkodemonopolies' international bandwidth into and out of SA, is a combination of SAT-2 + SAT-3 + SAFE + satellite, and Telkodemonopolies claims that it is not throttling SAT-3 & SAFE bandwidth - which we all know is a lie bcos Telkodemonopolies has been limiting the supply of SAT-3 bandwidth to maximise its monopolistic profits since 2002 when SAT-3 came online, and charging about 5 times more than it should for bandwidth going out of SA.

think FIFA is pretty well aware of this.

So, my question is, does FIFA [another monopoly BTW]...

well no, not really, FIFA is an elected not-for-profit organisation (as corrupt as it is, it isn't a monopoly as such).

...know all this, and does FIFA actually think that Telkodemonopolies has sufficient submarine bandwidth [unthrottled] to cope with 2010 bandwidth requirements - those requirements are going to be huge for live HDTV broadcasts to multiple countries around the world...

HD broadcasts will not go through SAT3 to the outside world, but rather via satellite. The Tb backbone is to link the media centre in Jo'burg with all the Stadiums. Thus there can be central studios to package all the content, rather than setting up a production studio at each and every stadium.

Sadly guavamint interference in SA's ICT sector does mean that Telkodemonopolies is currently FIFA's only potential bandwidth supplier, but it just makes me wonder what shady deals & discussions have been going on behind closed doors between Telkodemonopolies and FIFA.

wearing your tinfoil hat? For once this doesn't seem like a bad thing. There isn't anyone else to do it. FIFA is giving Telkom marketing access to the tournament in return for R255m in infrastructure and network services. I think FIFA is getting the better part of the deal. In addition FIFA's IT project managed internally, so Telkom will just be doing what they are told. South Africa gets a nice fibre backbone, which can only be good in the long term. With additional competition, Telkom will be forced to sell access to it at a reasonable cost after 2010.

 

[Tns]

as if there is anyone else but telkom around, fifa should be concerned....