Wholesale telecom services matter

[QuintonB]

Why wholesale services matter in telecommunications

The role of wholesale services in the telecommunications sector lies at the heart of the NBN (New Broadband Network) outlined in the South Africa Connect policy

 

[Paul Hjul]

New Broadband or National Broadband
previous discussions centered on a National Broadband Network - NBN - which was presented in a broken fashion as both a wholesale backbone and as a end user broadband service (to talk about a wholesale network as broadband is mischievous)

I'll double check the submissions and policy documents from 2011 and 2013 but this is the first time I am seeing N standing for New and it has massive implications - and wasteful expenditure actually - and I really don't understand what BMI-t are angling at. Especially in light of the new PT ministry

 

[MickeyD]

First I hear of "New"...

 

[Paul Hjul]

First I hear of "New"...

clearly it is something new

This really is worrying me, I expect an announcement of a massive construction project of a "new" state owned network ... because Infraco is already "old"

 

[dominic]

is a thai po

national not new

useful article thanks

 

[Paul Hjul]

okay so no announcements come from PT to build a yet another network:

There are several examples of countries (including Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and Brazil) where the government has taken the initiative to stimulate the development of a new national broadband network, which it partly funds, and/or new broadband access networks that will in principle be available to all service providers on an open-access, wholesale basis.