The cap that chokes

[rpm]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Broadband/1517.html

 

[Necuno]

cheaper + no cap == decrease in abusive behavior.

 

[DarkDenim]

Same old yada yada. Telkom getting competition? IBIWISI

 

[Pilgrim]

I am not too worried about stupid ivy and her "If we do not own it, it does not land in SA" policy towards international cables.

A couple of ISPs can band together and lay a cable to one of our neighbouring African countries.

If they do not have the same stupidass idea as ivy then they at least will have cheap bandwidth they can resell to our ISPs.

See ivy? A way to work around your stupid stupid FKING STUPID idea

(and is this not pretty much what Seacom offered. The piece of cable in SA waters is SA owned?)

 

[The_Unbeliever]

cheaper + no cap == decrease in abusive behavior.

Yup.

As is now, ppl are nursing their caps, and when the end of the month rolls round, they download what they can, leading to unneccessary network strain, and impairing the service for others.

 

[Flipside]

After all, one has to believe that government ultimately has the interests of its citizens at heart

LOL!!

 

[Glordit]

In Europe 3GB's a day is standard... in S.A 1GB a month is standard....
I don't see the need to cap? most of the DSL traffic is in S.A for gaming, only MMO's go outside of S.A.
Still I am on uncapped but at a very slow speed (64k) and very very heavily shaped no p2p what so ever...

 

[eltherza]

But dont worry, competition is on the horizon! And the government is trying it's best to keep it here

 

[lordnokon]

Ja, and this was suppose to start when?? Beginning of last year.
shame, same old story...

 

[DblD]

yawn will someone wake me up when this happens .......

 

[boramk]

But dont worry, competition is on the horizon! And the government is trying it's best to keep it here

yeah, heard that 5 years ago
even if neotel comes, it will bein 2 years
and even then, it wouldnt be strong enough against telkom

 

[eltherza]

yeah, heard that 5 years ago
even if neotel comes, it will bein 2 years
and even then, it wouldn't be strong enough against telkom

I was being sarcastic

but seriously, Neotel is a nobody, they don't even have public services offered, they don't even have an undersea cable yet. Vodacom and MTN are laying lines down to save expenses that telkom gives them. That should tell it all, they believe that installing new lines themselves would be faster than Telkom or Neotel and cheaper too. This shows that neotel wont be that much cheaper OR neotel isn't going to offer anything for the next 3 years.

With complete LLU still years away, telkom is still in the driving seat when it comes to fixed line comms.

 

[LabAnimal]

... and we're still waiting!

 

[flarkit]

I don't see the need to cap? most of the DSL traffic is in S.A for gaming, only MMO's go outside of S.A.

???


Can you back that up with figures, Glordit? I'd be interested to see how gaming-usage stacks up against all the other traffic which flows across ADSL.

 

[Tux]

SSDD
The words change but the message stays the same...

 

[Praeses]

I don't see the need to cap? most of the DSL traffic is in S.A for gaming, only MMO's go outside of S.A.

....how does one respond to such nonsense?

 

[texo]

A couple of ISPs can band together and lay a cable to one of our neighbouring African countries.

Is this possible? So if one of the new cables isn't allowed to land here, could an ISP do this (lay a cable to Namibia or Moz)?

 

[Mike_De_Lange]

Nuke Telkom and the battle is won!

 

[duderoo]

Nuke Telkom and the battle is won!

Forget about nuking then just NUTE them.

 

[ic]

After all, one has to believe that government ultimately has the interests of its citizens at heart and won’t chase away hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign investment in an area where investment is so critically needed. Right?

Riiight, at this point I'm forced to conclude that the guavamental Poison Ivy and Stalin-Mafole at the Department of Communistications, only have the lining of their own pockets in mind.

The only way to restore confidence in the DoC and attract foreign investment, is to napalm the collective arses of Poison Ivy and all her plants, and replace all of them with competent people that have no power over supposedly independent institutions like !CASA, this should be accompanied by a very strong public statement from guavamentals that Poison Ivy's [mis]Managed [telecoms] Liberalisation has been a complete and utter failure and has set the country and economy back to the dark ages.