Venter’s dilemma

[rpm]

Venter’s dilemma

Altech CEO Craig Venter did SA’s telecommunications sector a big favour when he took on and defeated communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri in court. Altech now has a licence to build a network. The question is, will it use it?

 

[Tns]

the real question is how would it actually benefit the end user? well it's easy they'll make money and we pay for it.

 

[Amida]

The heading doesn't sound right

 

[DblD]

Yeah what is his dilemma?

 

[Pilgrim]

The Altec victory is still a huge victory. Without it even the largest ISPs are at the mercy of the national operators.

Imagine for a moment that some ISP wants to get backhaul bandwidth over a short distance. In the past the only way they could do it was through the likes of telscum. And telscum was happy to inflate the price to some insane level, just because they could.

Now, if telscum quotes some insane price, the ISP can do a cost calculation, and if it is cheaper, it can lay its own fiber line or set up its own microwave link.

Point is, there is now an upper limit on the insanity that telscum can force down on other players. If they are to expensive, or take too long, the other players can go it alone.

Heck, they can team up and lay a few links together and share the costs. Something they could not even have considered before the Altec victory.

Altec++

 

[KirPlunk]

I've got Altech's back!

One of the few companies who are in the trenches fighting for our freedom to communicate.

 

[Albereth]

I always remain sceptical because my view of what prices plummeting means seems to be quite different to everyone elses. Yeah, prices have come down, but I've never experienced them plummet.

 

[tjunyat]

I always remain sceptical because my view of what prices plummeting means seems to be quite different to everyone elses. Yeah, prices have come down, but I've never experienced them plummet.

So true!

 

[wamatt]

Craig Venter did SA’s telecoms sector a favour when he communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri in court

RPM accidentally the verb in that sentence!

 

[Broo]

Venter can now build himself a fibre link between his house and the Telkom exchange, and maybe one for me too