WACS edges closer to South Africa

The new WACS landing station, which is being built at Yzerfontein, still needs backhaul capacity provided by Telkom.
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I see a weak link in that cable.

ps. So EASSy is a dead duck in terms of benefits for us consumers?
 
The new WACS landing station, which is being built at Yzerfontein, still needs backhaul capacity provided by Telkom.
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I was excited till I read the last line of the article, now I know this is not going to be of any benefit to SA...
 
The new WACS landing station, which is being built at Yzerfontein, still needs backhaul capacity provided by Telkom.
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Ag nee F*k Telskommel. :mad:
 
Any chance we can connect via Namibia? - get it sooner and run a shorter distance (to Joburg anyway)
 
Telkom is the weakness here,


In Nambia it will lower the cost of bandwidth.. In South Africa will properly make no difference becasue of Telkom keeping the prices high.
 
damn damn damn damn fastest link we will have to the world and Telkom is in.... :mad:
guess that means they might try roll out faster internet speeds :D not..... so bummed now...
 
Yeah, what is the point of all this bandwidth, if Telkom is still screwing us on line rentals. Bandwidth is fairly cheap now, at less than R 29.00 per GB for capped accounts. Not only does the Telkom line rental cost more than an uncapped account, it is also throttling the speed that we could be getting, by it's inferior infrastructure.
 
surfs-up said:
Yeah, what is the point of all this bandwidth, if Telkom is still screwing us on line rentals. Bandwidth is fairly cheap now, at less than R 29.00 per GB for capped accounts. Not only does the Telkom line rental cost more than an uncapped account, it is also throttling the speed that we could be getting, by it's inferior infrastructure.
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Not to mention there are infrastructure/back-haul issues on 4mb+ users which gives you slower than 384k speeds...no amount of bandwidth connecting us to the world would mean you'd have fast speeds at home... LLU! I'll pay and install my own damn dslam/backhaul capacity just so I have decent speeds!
 
We see it as an opportunity to better South Africa's connection to the world, Telkom sees it as a pile of cash...
 
Anybody know where this landing station in Yzerfontein will be?
 
Let's hope that Telkom are not the only ones that are allowed to peer there and that soon others will be invited to also connect to the landing station.
 
Garyvdh said:
Let's hope that Telkom are not the only ones that are allowed to peer there and that soon others will be invited to also connect to the landing station.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WACS_(cable_system)

Participants that have been announced include the following South African players: [3]

Neotel: South Africa's second fixed line operator
Telkom South Africa: South Africa's incumbent fixed line operator
MTN Group: A South African based regional mobile operator
Vodacom: A South African based regional mobile operator
Gateway Communications: is the leading pan-African wholesale connectivity and telecommunications provider
Broadband Infraco: A South African state-owned telecom infrastructure company
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neotel: losers
telkom: dinosaurs
mtn: thieves
vodacom: even bigger thieves
gateway comms: eh?
infraco: oh god... anc
 
The new WACS landing station, which is being built at Yzerfontein, still needs backhaul capacity provided by Telkom.
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Stands to reason seeing that Telkom has no shares in this cable.
That and the fact that SAT3 has plenty of capacity for all of us.

Get DFA to feed us with FTTH!
Or come on? Where are all those i-ECNS licence holders?
 
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