Uganda knocks SA’s telecoms policy

Nsambu was sharing a stage with SA’s science and technology minister, Mosibudi Mangena, at the Satcom Africa conference in Johannesburg yesterday when he suggested that SA should rethink its telecoms regulations. Then he apologised for making his criticisms in public instead of discussing them in private.

“I wish you had written to me privately,” Mangena replied.
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I just love the last comment, in otherwords, dear visiting speaker, please remove that from your speech, as you cannot criticise SA in SA. Hee Hee. The rest of Africa is not looking up to South Africa, but rather to Morocco
 
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“I wish you had written to me privately,” Mangena replied.
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Bugger you! Its a public matter, I see no reason why it should not be openly criticised in public. :mad:
 
“It took them a long time to convince us that in SA the regulations are that bad,” Nsambu said. “Your government should provide such companies with a certificate to say the companies are good but they don’t meet our requirements because we have our own regulations,” he told Mangena.
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Ooooh, ouch. Here, have some egg on your face, we know you deserve it.

Infraco was established because no other company could provide sufficient bandwidth fast enough to support the Southern African Large Telescope and to let SA bid to host the $1,5bn Square Kilometre Array radio telescope. “If there were private companies that came and said we can provide this bandwidth we wouldn’t have Infraco,” Mangena said.
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BwahahahHWAHAHWHAHHAWHAHWHAHHAHAHWHAHWAHHWAHHAAAA *breathe* AAAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAHAHAHAA

And on a more angry note: you lying bastard!!

1) The utter embarrassment that is the Department of Communications is ACTIVELY discouraging private operators from constructing undersea cables that land here with stupid and insane 'guidelines' and spurious requirements in the name of 'national security'.

2) One privately funded cable is going to beat the Infraco and government sanctioned cables to our shores. They've already started their CONSTRUCTION, while your friends in government have not even begun PLANNING!

3) See sig. Don't make me add your department to the list.

Juice
 
It's a sad day, when another African country has to tell the South African government how to it's job
 
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It's a sad day, when another African country has to tell the South African government how to it's job
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sad indeed

Nsambu said governments should back off from playing an active role as the telecoms sector “must be run by highly skilled technicians, not by politicians”.
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now if only they would!
 
Nsambu will probably be labeled a coconut. It's a shame, he made such good points, and government should really listen to him. Governments should govern, not run industry.
 
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It's a sad day, when another African country has to tell the South African government how to it's job
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That may be. However what it really does is highlight our regression into the african status quo.
 
Let's write a letter to Nsambu and the government of Uganda and thank them for their outspokenness in showing our government the way, and encouage some cross-border debate in this matter.... make it an open letter of sorts. We'll CC the co-ordinator of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee (she will pass it on) ; a few of the top brass in Telkom / Sentech / etc; the International Telecommunications Union; several local financial and respected media publications; and heck, why not OfCom and the American Department of Foreign Trade (or whatever it's called... the American interests dudes who check on foreign countries' compliance with WTO obligations) for the hell of it. We can mention that unfortunately our own South African department of Communications could not be CC'd in on the open letter, as their email address does not appear to be in working order.

But first, anyone know much about the Ugandan telecoms situation?
 
Hell, with a proper business plan, anyone can lay a cable.

The only problem is that government says that the private sector is not coming to the party and therefore they are laying cables.

They neglect to mention that the private sector was not allowed legally to do anything about it and that "companies" abused their rights, like Telkom whose controlling shareholder is government itself.

To make a long story short, they all think the public are idiots and will never catch on or understand them.
 
Debbie2 said:
Let's write a letter to Nsambu and the government of Uganda and thank them for their outspokenness in showing our government the way, and encouage some cross-border debate in this matter.... make it an open letter of sorts. We'll CC the co-ordinator of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee (she will pass it on) ; a few of the top brass in Telkom / Sentech / etc; the International Telecommunications Union; several local financial and respected media publications; and heck, why not OfCom and the American Department of Foreign Trade (or whatever it's called... the American interests dudes who check on foreign countries' compliance with WTO obligations) for the hell of it. We can mention that unfortunately our own South African department of Communications could not be CC'd in on the open letter, as their email address does not appear to be in working order.

But first, anyone know much about the Ugandan telecoms situation?
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No to the last question... any takers? I think its a damned fine suggestion...
 
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