iBurst plans 20 000 Internet Cafes

I'd trade 20,000 iburst internet cafes for one Starbucks with WiFi. :)

EDIT - glad to see they're going into areas Telkom refuses to service.
 
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hmmm another pr exercise. 20 000 internet cafes? lols! The users will probably have to pay like R30 per half an hour...
BS
 
Anyone ever use an Easy Internet Cafe overseas?

You could (when I was in London 5 years ago) get connected for as low as 1 Pound for 4 hours. They had a sliding scale scheme, if the cafe was empty, you got access for next to nothing. If it was full, you paid premium rate.

That would rock out here :)
 
Nice idea...

iBurst won't need to wait for bandwidth or cables from Telkom, so I think they'll do good business.
 
kifoth said:
Anyone ever use an Easy Internet Cafe overseas?
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Went there once to check it out, as they were in competition to our chain of iCafe's.. Browsed a bit over their 8 meg leased lines.. through Netscape somehow.. and after a couple minutes decided to do some hacking and ended up in their filesystem.. became paranoid though as the floor staff were kinda hovering around behind me. Damn it was close :D

We had an 8 meg fibre line in the Millennium Dome cafe which was awesome, and a 2 meg line in Whiteleys.. ADSL wasn't even out yet, they released it just after I left the UK! :(

Congrats to iBurst for taking the initiative to go where Telkom saw only people who are beneath them.

Funny though that Telkom can spend millions on sending people to the Soccer World Cup, but refuse to roll out services in perceived poor areas.
 
Looks good for now, checked their website http://iburstcafe.co.za.

"We will provide you with the hardware, software, full training, advertising and advise you on how to make your business profitable." R14 000
6 Pc
18 Port switch
Broadband router
UT-D
Not sure of the iBurst package, 9gig/6gig [will love 9Gig]
 
Well lets see, thats a connection averaging under 147kb (daytime speed) between 4-6 PC's. Thas around 26kb a PC!! Great.. with pings of 1200ms split between 4-6 PC as well. Looks great.

Haha, luckily those stats were wrong. This sounds pretty good, Iburst really are doing things at least, for subscribers and the community.

The site looks nice too, great way to spur on some entrepeneurs in previously disadvantaged communities.
 
bwana v.13 said:
I'd trade 20,000 iburst internet cafes for one Starbucks with WiFi. :)
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Seeing a Starbucks on every corner of every high street makes me sick, witness the death of a city's soul.
 
At least they can hold LAN parties within the cafe's.
 
Other similar services - like hotspots at JIA cost R90 per hour. They want 20 000 new cafe's - nice short term investment. What about rolling out their product to other parts of the country - or aren't our rands green enough?
 
lol

mooK said:
Seeing a Starbucks on every corner of every high street makes me sick, witness the death of a city's soul.
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yeah.. subway sarmies and starbucks - enough to make you puke
 
Well atleast it will mostly be in JHB, starting in Soweto. SO my good old Cape bandwidth should be okay for a while.

But what exactly are Tradepage (or whichever independent ISP it is) doing in this venture? IF its Iburst connections then it should be Iburst bandwidth so what exactly do Tradepage do?

Well maby it wont be regular Iburst bandwidth afterall?
 
good for you iburst, now how about some coverage in my arae? please?
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
But what exactly are Tradepage (or whichever independent ISP it is) doing in this venture? IF its Iburst connections then it should be Iburst bandwidth so what exactly do Tradepage do?
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Looks like Tradepage will be providing equipment and some publicity stunts :D [marketing] for the cafe's
iBurst will be there for bandwidth
 
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