Tshwane gets free WiFi

Nice concept but the headline is misleading: Tshwane gets free Wifi (in selected areas) would be more accurate
 
Non profit .... riiiiiight!!!
They can keep the 0.01mbps. Use the money for education.
 
These clowns cannot even read a bloody electricity meter without messing it up. Now they want to roll out wifi. They should rather spend their money on changing the street names back to the correct ones as ordered by the courts months ago.
 
The idea is good. I would be pleasantly surprised if they can pull it off effectively. Even a 100kbps wifi connection would be sufficient for the students and help them out a great deal. Now hire some proper, non BEE, non comrade people to put it up so that they can actually benefit from it.
 
diabolus said:
Hopefully they intend to educate the people in those areas on how to actually use this Wifi .
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Bring it and they will learn.

But if they cannot make it work in Stb, with the cooperation of Mixit and the university, how on earth will Pta manage?
 
This is the same group involved in the struggling Stellenbosch free Wi-Fi project.
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And this one won't struggle? I hope and pray it won't struggle.
 
encrypted said:
Giving people internet is education. The average South African teacher can't even spell teach, where as on the internet you can join a course run by Harvard and the likes, for free.
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All it translates to, is free porn for the masses.

I gave our workers a old PC to "educate themselves" with, it's had all kinds of typing apps and word-education apps on it.... guess what was the first thing they did when I turned my back. They found the web-browser, and were searching tits and ass.

Western Society is driven to educate them/ourselves. The same does not hold true for African society.
 
kwaggawerner said:
All it translates to, is free porn for the masses.

I gave our workers a old PC to "educate themselves" with, it's had all kinds of typing apps and word-education apps on it.... guess what was the first thing they did when I turned my back. They found the web-browser, and were searching tits and ass.

Western Society is driven to educate them/ourselves. The same does not hold true for African society.
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First thing I did with my first PC...
 
kwaggawerner said:
All it translates to, is free porn for the masses.

I gave our workers a old PC to "educate themselves" with, it's had all kinds of typing apps and word-education apps on it.... guess what was the first thing they did when I turned my back. They found the web-browser, and were searching tits and ass.

Western Society is driven to educate them/ourselves. The same does not hold true for African society.
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That's certainly not unique to African society. Don't fool yourself.
 
I'll be impressed if phase 1 is up and running before 2015. This is a much harder project than anyone suspects.
 
Great idea, I hope they have some decent wireless and networking architects and get a good company to implement! Western Cape watch out, you are now about to fall behind.

On the worry about what it may be used for, I am sure they will not allow blanket access, ideally they will be clever and have local educational content and cache the hell out of international content. Then they can also redirect to mobile versions of websites to lighten the load (i.e. gmail to m.gmail for example).

The crux is to design this as a basic access service and to only allow users to make use of it in this fashion - don't expect to be able to stream video internationally, video conference and all of that, just basic access to educational content and basic internet based services like email (I am sure Google will be happy to peer directly with them for example).

Lets just hope they are not just throwing a big PR stunt by putting up a few hotspots and calling it a metro wide free wifi zone.

For those who may not be aware there is a very big difference between your home wifi and enterprise grade wireless, firstly how it manages multiple concurrent users (your home one will normally bomb out before you get to twenty concurrent users) and how it deals with interference etc. I hope they are going with a good Cisco/Aruba/Ruckus stuff not some cheap home kit!
 
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