We will lay cable, says Neotel

...and nary a peep from telkom...

I've seen Telkom laying fiber along the N4 during 1999-2000 - any idea what it was for?

Neotel is still experiencing growing pains. A recurring issue is that the handset it has designed for households cannot be connected to a standard Ethernet cable.
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:rolleyes: Somebody slipped up badly with that...
 
Now how do I ask them to lay fibre to my house?
 
Its nice to finally see a number in terms of how many base stations they have up and running...

62 is alot less than I expected to be honest.
 
In this day and age with consumers getting a lot wiser in terms of connectivity, who in their right minds designs a device with no ethernet port? Were they designed by a guy who has been in a cave since win98 was launched? I mean really. That point alone has left a seriously bad taste in my mouth and makes me seriously think that they are a bad idea in terms of a provider of telecoms.
 
The_Librarian said:
...and nary a peep from telkom...

I've seen Telkom laying fiber along the N4 during 1999-2000 - any idea what it was for?



:rolleyes: Somebody slipped up badly with that...
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are you sure it was Telkom? The fibre along the highways are to provide transmission for all those new big brother traffic security cams...among other things.
 
friedpiggy said:
In this day and age with consumers getting a lot wiser in terms of connectivity, who in their right minds designs a device with no ethernet port? Were they designed by a guy who has been in a cave since win98 was launched? I mean really. That point alone has left a seriously bad taste in my mouth and makes me seriously think that they are a bad idea in terms of a provider of telecoms.
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Probably left the research to be done by a windoze boffin...

Rabbit7766 said:
are you sure it was Telkom? The fibre along the highways are to provide transmission for all those new big brother traffic security cams...among other things.
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Ya, it was Telkom. The contractor whom I spoke to said it was for telkom.
 
All of this is good and well - they should just inform clients that if they want to make any international calls, they'll have to cough up a deposit first.

Two sides to every coin (operator)...
 
I don't care what they do... as long as we have the three d's at the end of the day. d_service, d_broadband, d_prices....
 
froot said:
I don't care what they do... as long as we have the three d's at the end of the day. d_service, d_broadband, d_prices....
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I love triple D's.

I'll take a 34 DDD thanks. :D
 
HE WHO CONTROLS THE CABLE, CONTROLS DUNE....

THE DATA MUST FLOW!

may the great Throughput in the sky watch over house neotel...
 
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I thought Neotel had exclusive use of Infraco's national fibre network. Whatever happened with that?
 
Shake&Bake said:
All of this is good and well - they should just inform clients that if they want to make any international calls, they'll have to cough up a deposit first.

Two sides to every coin (operator)...
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Does this apply to all customers or only those with bad credit ratings? Seems pretty reasonable to ask for a deposit if the person won't be able to pay for the calls...
 
lol give me some fibre and a neotel spade and ill lay my own in front of my house
 
This is excellent news, let us hope that it will happen sooner rather than later.
 
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