eThekwini Launches Broadband Service

:mad: ... And in other news:
Next week municipalities will be providing more services at uber low-cost. Just wait for next week when the excess people the municipalities have hired will be available to companies who can then rent them out for various tasks.

The municipalities of course refuse to admit that their provision of governmint funded people is in fact a poorly disguised attempt to dodge the competition commission's eye. Every tax paying member of the community is now painfully aware that their tax money is now paying the salaries of the people that are now their primary competition.

Said one irate bricklayer: "I am paying 20% of that man over the street's salary so that he can be hired out at 15% less than I charge!!!"

How on earth can this possibly make sense?

More look like me philosophical social blundering in a world where good business practices are required?

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This will bring down the cost of connectivity overall. The municipalities can install this and use it for their own use, or they can install it and use it for their own use and resell access to it. That pays for the fibre and infrastructure support.

Lighting buildings and towns is common all over the world, then again they don't have Telkom either.

If you think this is a bad thing, then you probably work for Telkom or someone that is making a fat profit by selling a product at very inflated rates.
 
Does every eThekwini resident have electricity that will be required to take advantage of this exciting offer?

So much for making the provision of basic services their prime objective!
 
moggie said:
Does every eThekwini resident have electricity that will be required to take advantage of this exciting offer?

So much for making the provision of basic services their prime objective!
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I would tend to agree with you and say don't people require health care, water and all the other basic services before broadband but in the real world world one does not supply one service until it is perfect.

All I can say is I'm glad i live in Durban where it is the first Muni. in SA to have a network of this sort and it will benefit us all in Durban
 
"We opted for what we call an open service provider model, where eThekwini Metroconnect is available at wholesale to licensed internet service providers, content providers and selected public sector entities like universities.

"It will be bandwidth-rich, available to service providers from 512kbps (kilobytes per second) going up to 1 000mps (megabytes per second). These ISPs will in turn retail to businesses and residents. Contracts will be entered into between the eThekwini Municipality and the service provider directly, with Dimension Data acting as the service agent," said Subban.
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http://www.themercury.co.za/?fSectionId=&fArticleId=vn20081003054224357C648205
 
skydog said:
I would tend to agree with you and say don't people require health care, water and all the other basic services before broadband but in the real world world one does not supply one service until it is perfect.

All I can say is I'm glad i live in Durban where it is the first Muni. in SA to have a network of this sort and it will benefit us all in Durban
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Knysna beat you to it by about 3 years.....
 
moggie said:
Does every eThekwini resident have electricity that will be required to take advantage of this exciting offer?

So much for making the provision of basic services their prime objective!
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I'd say even though that is true, you have to remember that telecommunications is a different department altogether. They're just doing what they get told. No department interoperates (according to what I've seen) with other departments.

So if dept. A gets 1 billion rand for funding, they'd rather use up that 1 billion entirely, rather than using 200 million, get the job done and then filter the money through to other dept's that might need it. Buying expensive cars instead of allocating that money to job creation or basic services...

I think the government needs a project manager, not another minister that doesn't know his right from left...

However, it's nice to see municipalities being pro-active in this arena and eventually completing something. This will surely help in basic computer literacy and education (I hope)
 
Want to debate the service availability or the medium used to deliver it? Many users don't care how they access the Net as long as they can do it as cheaply as possible.

What access medium will Dimension Data or other resellers be using? Copper or Wireless? Will you still need ADSL service from Telkom?
 
moggie said:
Want to debate the service availability or the medium used to deliver it? Many users don't care how they access the Net as long as they can do it as cheaply as possible.

What access medium will Dimension Data or other resellers be using? Copper or Wireless? Will you still need ADSL service from Telkom?
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When you order a MetroConnect Circuit from your ISP you will be supplied with a Fibre connection. This is only that access portion (eg diginet replacement) what services the ISP offers over that line is up to them and what the client wants. The circuit cost may or may not be bundled into the services that ISP offer.

The cost is at least 1/3 of normal diginet
 
Thanks, am aware of it but we were not debating price; more the issue of having a connected city... and who started it all.

Knysna had the balls to take on Telkom, ICASA and the DoC and they won! This was a huge victory for lower telecom's costs.
 
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