WACS undersea fibre cable deployment progressing well

JStrike said:
Only those nerds playing computer games online and certain other corner cases will be using wired access
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You'll be surprised how big that piece of the pie is me thinks. There are a whole lot of people who's sole motivation for getting ADSL is online gaming and the like. I suppose wireless quality is improving, but for latency sensitive purposes it will be hard to beat fixed line, for the moment anyway.
 
Hoping this will bring an increase in bandwidth quality and lessen the shaping...
 
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We need a company with the chutzpah to bring fibre to the home. And bypass Telkom completely.
 
JStrike said:
Whats wrong with wireless??
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Wireless is awesome, speeds are increasing and it has other added benefits. But fixed line wins in latency. And its not just for gaming. Even web and chatting and the like. Latency is very noticeable in comparing the two. Further, the contention ratios at base stations for wireless I'm sure is much higher than contention for bandwidth on fixed lines from upstream nodes from the DSLAM. This again degrades the experience on wireless compared to fixed line.
 
am I the only one that can't find anything regarding the Samsung Galaxy Tab deals on Vodacom, Cell C and MTN sites?
 
h0ll0w said:
This is brilliant news indeed, but don't break out the Champers just yet. Telkom does not even have the infrastructure to provide us residential plebs with 10mbps ADSL.
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We are a big business smack in the middle of Sandton and can't even get 10MB never mind residential.

JStrike said:
Whats wrong with wireless?? I used Sentech MyWireless for many years before ADSL. Worked great.
If its twice as fast as a copper cable, then its kicking wired ass.
Plus, its wireless! Way of the future. Only those nerds playing computer games online and certain other corner cases will be using wired access
But as for advertised speed versus actual, you might be right. I haven't actually used CellC
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If wired connections only benefited gamers ADSL would be dead by now. Get your facts right. Cable will always beat wireless so I can not imagine a future were they decide to stop using cable.
 
Another cable coming in for apparent "cheaper" ADSL. One the one hand we have people jumping up and down for joy about "faster" / "cheaper internet and on the other hand we have articles talking about how it is only killing the South African ISP industry. I will agree however that Telkom/Neotel need to get off their rears and do something about the hardware infrastructure so that everyone can have access to these new cables... otherwise what is the point.
 
Stroeder added that the submarine portion of the cable system is expected to be completed in early 2011 and they are on track to start carrying traffic in the second half of 2011.
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Can we get an update on this? Has the cable been completed/are they testing already?
 
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