Overloaded with fibre

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Overloaded with fibre

Start canvassing the neighbourhood to club together and run your own private fibre-optic network, and negotiate a good deal with Neotel or FibreCo or MTN or Vodacom or maybe even Telkom to deliver some real broadband to your house.
 
Looking at Padayachie's resume I think he is a man with a good plan. Unfortunately his decisions has to be in the best interest of the government . The same government that sits and watch Telkom screw the whole country because they get something out of it.
 
Or build a free wireless network that spans the entire city...

Who knows, maybe one day we can provide internet over such a network without the need of expensive licenses :)
 
it is not unrealistic. Many cities in Europe and the USA have chosen to build their own fiber networks in order to negotiate cheaper internet. There is no reason why it cannot also be done on a smaller scale in gated communities or discrete dense suburbs.
 
Mark the 11th of November 2011 on your calendar and wait to see if he delivers.
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Hey that's today. Woohoo or maybe not :(

Edit. My aplogies. Posted in error. For some reason i read 2010 and posted it. :) Not that I'll be holding my breath anytime soon.
 
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Oh crap. Lets hope captainwifi doesn't see this.
 
It seems that the aim of the national rollout is to reduce backhaul costs. A year ago MyBB had an article on fibre rollout (Cape Town Broadband Infrastructure Project ). I'm a little confused as to how all these pieces fit together (if at all).
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/telecoms/15287-100-Mbps-Gbps-fibre-pricing-revealed.html

There is a fibre conduit running down our road (Rosmead Ave), but I remember reading that connecting to it would cost close to R100K! Getting to the end-user still seems limited by cost-benefit tradeoffs.
 
i CANT W8 FOR THE DAY WHEN i CAN SIT IN MY PTA house and plug a gbit line into my pc ....
would be ohrsome
 
Start canvassing the neighbourhood to club together and run your own private fibre-optic network, and negotiate a good deal with Neotel or FibreCo or MTN or Vodacom or maybe even Telkom to deliver some real broadband to your house.
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The above, the article summary, is what attracted me to reading this article. I thought it was going to discuss this, provide advice on how to approach these telcos and how to install your own fibre network.

Very misleading indeed. The article doesn't discuss this at all, and the author has copy/pasted this to the end of the article again.

The article summary should be changed. Sigh.
 
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My wife's cousin did this in Italy a few years ago. One of the telco's was running a main fibre backbone right past their housing estate, he contacted the telco when he found out what was going on and asked if it was possible to get connected? The telco said "yes" if he could get a critical mass of people in the area to sign up. He got a sales rep to come to the local church hall one evening where he'd gathered as many people from the estate together as he could and they all signed up.

HD movies and youtube stream as if the are straight off DVD, awesome speed!
 
iCubed.Saajid said:
The above, the article summary, is what attracted me to reading this article. I it was going to discuss this, provide advice on how to approach these telcos and how to install your own fibre network.

Very misleading indeed. The article doesn't discuss this at all, and the author has copy/pasted this to the end of the article again.

The article summary should be changed. Sigh.
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Agreed. Is it just my imagination or is the quality of some of the recent articles starting to get really sucky?
 
Reading this I get so ffffffffing annoyed. All respect to the author of this article but..... This is already the happened. It happened for us in 2008. 2 to 3 trunks of fibre put right through our little sleepy town. Its all useless. Telkom wont even use it and vodacom uses 1% of it for their 1 tower they have here.

However the fancy gated estate where the mayor lived has 2 fibre optic umc's on the estate. Also these UMC's are under 2.5km away from the exchange(against the rules). If i passed a few thousands under the table then our town would have been connected. He called it 'motivation'

So my point is that the author is implying everyone is going to play nice and fair and im afraid to say that is not happening or going to happen.

/rant
 
iCubed.Saajid said:
The above, the article summary, is what attracted me to reading this article. I it was going to discuss this, provide advice on how to approach these telcos and how to install your own fibre network.

Very misleading indeed. The article doesn't discuss this at all, and the author has copy/pasted this to the end of the article again.

The article summary should be changed. Sigh.
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+1 Whatever he was smoking in writing this - I'll have some.
 
iCubed.Saajid said:
The above, the article summary, is what attracted me to reading this article. I it was going to discuss this, provide advice on how to approach these telcos and how to install your own fibre network.

Very misleading indeed. The article doesn't discuss this at all, and the author has copy/pasted this to the end of the article again.

The article summary should be changed. Sigh.
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My thoughts exactly.
 
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