Derrick
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South African bandwidth pricing sucks big time! You don’t have to be a massive leech to know that bandwidth pricing in South Africa is restrictive and only corporate and very wealthy individuals can truly have worry free surfing. Even local bandwidth pricing isn’t remotely where it should be, not to mention that once you have that local bandwidth there isn’t much to do with it here in the good old SA apart from gaming and downloading torrents. The magic still lies overseas and we are still being stuffed with bandwidth pricing around every corner.
Stop the corruption or whatever is holding competition up
Telkom and its evil minions of (I censored myself here) protectors (unknown and dastardly as they are) are the ones responsible. There have been a few recent judicial victories which could see some happiness for consumers transpiring not too far down the line if these political minions of Telkom keep their greedy and dirty fingers out of the pie and unto themselves. The odds are slim though, but we can pray.
The world is moving web based…
Either way the world is moving web based. Applications like email and even the next generation of Microsoft’s Office suite will be going web based. That means one thing, MORE BANDWIDTH USAGE!!! How South Africa will be able to efficiently use and exploit an era where applications and tools will increasingly appear exclusively online is unclear to me. No use the rest of the world has this massively multimedia based and online application based existence and South African politicians effectively banish us to the stone age because through their doing and usually completely inept and sometimes even downright stupidly corrupt actions we cannot afford something as basic as web access of the quality and nature required to access a world where the average page size has tripled over the last 4 years!
This is a crisis
We are in a crisis situation with regard to bandwidth pricing and the true magnitude of the problem will only hit us once we realize our ability to solve problems have become exponentially expensive, perhaps even too expensive to overcome. What we need is proper competition.
A few questions remain
I am still wondering why the only “real” competition to Telkom had to come from Asia and why they are incapable of taking on Telkom via true fixed line competition. I am still left wondering why local telecoms companies aren’t allowed to truly run in unrestricted competition to Telkom even if it is only regional. The questions are piling up and there simply are no excuses for them apart from that South Africa is left with a largely uninformed or even ill informed population who doesn’t know how they are being raped price wise for no good reason. It should be classed a crime against humanity in my opinion, but I guess even the United Nations would be scared of Telkom’s army of lawyers.
Only my opinion
This is a blog and by nature just my personal opinions are reflected here, but I honestly think that many people take the issue of bandwidth pricing too lightly. It directly affects our nation’s capacity to compete with the world. The current state of affairs should leave the government ashamed, yet I can honestly say that it seems like the government isn’t equipped or informed enough to slice through (what could only be) the corruption protecting Telkom.
Lets hope for some change
It would be so nice if we could have true visionary leadership at the Department of Communications that could influence proper decision making all through the chain of linked stakeholders and unlock the true potential of our country’s communications. The South Africa I know and love is one where nothing is impossible, where the magical can happen! Why is it so hard to make it happen in our telecoms environment?
Stop the corruption or whatever is holding competition up
Telkom and its evil minions of (I censored myself here) protectors (unknown and dastardly as they are) are the ones responsible. There have been a few recent judicial victories which could see some happiness for consumers transpiring not too far down the line if these political minions of Telkom keep their greedy and dirty fingers out of the pie and unto themselves. The odds are slim though, but we can pray.
The world is moving web based…
Either way the world is moving web based. Applications like email and even the next generation of Microsoft’s Office suite will be going web based. That means one thing, MORE BANDWIDTH USAGE!!! How South Africa will be able to efficiently use and exploit an era where applications and tools will increasingly appear exclusively online is unclear to me. No use the rest of the world has this massively multimedia based and online application based existence and South African politicians effectively banish us to the stone age because through their doing and usually completely inept and sometimes even downright stupidly corrupt actions we cannot afford something as basic as web access of the quality and nature required to access a world where the average page size has tripled over the last 4 years!
This is a crisis
We are in a crisis situation with regard to bandwidth pricing and the true magnitude of the problem will only hit us once we realize our ability to solve problems have become exponentially expensive, perhaps even too expensive to overcome. What we need is proper competition.
A few questions remain
I am still wondering why the only “real” competition to Telkom had to come from Asia and why they are incapable of taking on Telkom via true fixed line competition. I am still left wondering why local telecoms companies aren’t allowed to truly run in unrestricted competition to Telkom even if it is only regional. The questions are piling up and there simply are no excuses for them apart from that South Africa is left with a largely uninformed or even ill informed population who doesn’t know how they are being raped price wise for no good reason. It should be classed a crime against humanity in my opinion, but I guess even the United Nations would be scared of Telkom’s army of lawyers.
Only my opinion
This is a blog and by nature just my personal opinions are reflected here, but I honestly think that many people take the issue of bandwidth pricing too lightly. It directly affects our nation’s capacity to compete with the world. The current state of affairs should leave the government ashamed, yet I can honestly say that it seems like the government isn’t equipped or informed enough to slice through (what could only be) the corruption protecting Telkom.
Lets hope for some change
It would be so nice if we could have true visionary leadership at the Department of Communications that could influence proper decision making all through the chain of linked stakeholders and unlock the true potential of our country’s communications. The South Africa I know and love is one where nothing is impossible, where the magical can happen! Why is it so hard to make it happen in our telecoms environment?