Uncapped broadband: Google versus Telkom

@rpm: How about an article comparing the space programmes of the USA and RSA?
 
To the comparison naysayers, they do exactly that when having to justify the increase in electicity prices so why not with bandwidth?

The really sad thing is the country is going downhill under the ANC's "leadership", so where we at right now might be the best we'll ever have unless we get a new government.
 
Doesn't myBB have a somewhat good communication channel with Telkom?

I'd like to see them send telkom the article, and post telkomsa reaction.

Just to create anger. Because everybody knows telkom wouldn't be able to justify this.

RPM... Please?
 
breaking news:

Verizon Galaxy Nexus Price Drops


Ahead of its upgrade to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, Verizon has dropped the Samsung Galaxy Nexus price down to a mere $99.99 on-contract.

This price is the lowest that Verizon has ever dropped the price and it should be a tempting offer to those interested in getting one of the carrier’s best 4G LTE Android smartphones.

The device originally launched on Verizon’s 4G LTE network back in December for $299.99 on-contract, so the price of the Galaxy Nexus has certainly come a long way since launch.

This discount only appears to be available online as the carrier is touting a $50 online discount. Those trying to find it in-stores will likely be greeted with the similar $150 on-contract price that Verizon has had attached to it for quite some time.
 
elvis_presley said:
Google makes you pay a one-off cost to lay the fiber, etc, and give you a free 5mbit connection after that. It's a clever way to get the economy of scales needed to connect up the entire town without paying for the roll-out. Yes, they'll take a loss from that free 5mbit line, but they're betting over time everyone will be upgrading to the full $120 product. Projects of this scale only have to return a profit after 5-10 years.
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Thank you , that's explains it. So they are banking on the fact that their 1Gb service will prove to be so much more value that in time everyone will migrate to it anyway as they already paid a once off for the fibre installation , Kinda like when Mnet had open time except on a extremely bigger and better option lol
 
BBSA said:
Why not?

Do you want to be 3rd world for ever?
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Yes, it would be nice that SA does become a first world country.

But, comparing us to 1st world is like stating the obvious, obviously the first world would have better and cheaper broadband than us (in this case).

This article would be better if we were compared to another 3rd world country, such as Botswana or Zambia.
 
maybe someone needs to send the comparison to pinky, so she can start pulling that finger out and point it in the right direction.
 
KOPITE said:
maybe someone needs to send the comparison to pinky, so she can start pulling that finger out and point it in the right direction.
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Poor Pinkie tried, I feel sorry for her... she was pinning a lot to the KT deal, until goverment scuppered it. KT were responsible for building South Korea from a South Africa like telecomms market into arguably the most advanced telecomms market in the world today. We really needed someone like that investing in this country :(
 
100million internet users????? vs 1million?????

obviously they should cost the same ;)

google $100+ billion company, telkom maybe R100 billion(* completely made up number), but probably much less??
 
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Mr.CookieMonster said:
Yes, it would be nice that SA does become a first world country.

But, comparing us to 1st world is like stating the obvious, obviously the first world would have better and cheaper broadband than us (in this case).

This article would be better if we were compared to another 3rd world country, such as Botswana or Zambia.
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If you want to become the best you must use the best as your yardstick;)
 
There is really no point in comparing our internet over here to that of a first world fibre network
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I think it is always instructive and useful and meaningful to compare first world countries to SA --- there are not reasons why we are somehow "magically different" to other countries, and the mentality that we somehow need to be backward is part of what keeps us backward. Economically, if the markets were freer, the South African economy would in fact be perfectly capable of supporting first world class broadband (pricing and service).

That said, this Google ISP is a bit of an odd comparison though for a different reason, namely, that firstly their business model is still based on advertising, and secondly they will be initially making a loss on this. Especially the "free" part is intriguing --- "do the math", so to speak, and you see that this is probably a different business model to most ISPs, in that the intention is probably to log and track the bleeding **** out of every little detail of everything you do online - every link you click on, every email you send, everything will be run past Google's databases and monitored by their "AI's", all, ostensibly, to help deliver a different product, namely deliver you to advertisers.

I'll go out on a limb, and I'm sure I'll be an exception here, but I don't want it. I don't want a "Google ISP' even if it's free. I just don't like being watched and tracked all the time, it's as simple as that. Who likes (basically) being watched?

The comparison box in this article needs to list as a "pro" for Telkom that they aren't monitoring everything you do and storing it all in a big database for, amongst other things, creating sophisticated custom advertising profiles, while a "negative" in the Google column is that they probably will be doing so.
 
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