National optic fibre network construction starts

Yup, can only mean good news. Even if it's only the far far far(oops, carried away) off future... :D
 
Just please have it in the ground and available for ALL to benefit from before I retire :)

Keep on digging boys, I'll prep a trench to my place in the meantime.
Sorry about your Rose Garden Mrs. Jenniker :D
 
Lets hope that we actually see some savings. First we were told that international bandwidth is the reason prices are so high. Now we are told that local bandwidth is the problem.

Will prices come down when notel has an "almost infinite capacity" network? Probably not.
 
manesan said:
Is this the same thing that DFA is doing?
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No DFA are only doing metro-rings and some gated communities.
They merely throw a pipe in the ground and then lease out the fibre to whomever wants it.
DFA is not a telecomms provider.
 
"Almost infinite".

What a c@rp statement. Does almost infinite mean we can provide internet based tv to almost all of SA, or does it mean we can serve web pages to all of SA?
 
Why is it only starting now? Surely they should have had the national fibre ready before the international fibre connection? Is South Africa really more of a threat than Somalia Pirates? Eish :sick:
 
Shake&Bake said:
No DFA are only doing metro-rings and some gated communities.
They merely throw a pipe in the ground and then lease out the fibre to whomever wants it.
DFA is not a telecomms provider.
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I was under the impression that DFA was looking at laying fibre from Mtunzini via Durban to Guateng, and then leasing it out? :confused:
 
I drove to Ballito the other day, and notice all the way there are orange, blue and some green cables being dug into trenches along the highway going right past durban... wonder if its related!
 
Whats up Doc ?????

Well now my head is spinning :confused::sick:

NBSS
NBSS was formed after Neotel’s acquisition of Transtel. “The acquisition of Transtel, the telecommunications leg of Transnet, was a major scoop for Neotel, as an organisation. At the time of the deal, Neotel wanted to grow, but faced the challenge of finding the right resources – a challenge which immediately was overcome by the acquisition,” he says.
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INFRACO
One of the building blocks of Government’s telecoms strategy is Broadband Infraco. Broadband Infraco is a state owned enterprise with the Department of Public Enterprises (74%) and the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Limited (26%) as shareholders. According to the parastatal it’s primary focus will be on the wholesale, large corporate and enterprise markets. The company made it clear that it will not be an access provider in the retail space.
“Infraco will provide and own the long-distance Full Service Network (FSN) deployed by Eskom and Transnet. Infraco is now a stand-alone entity reporting to the Department of Public Enterprises,” Infraco said. “Broadband Infraco will provide wholesale long distance access services to third party electronic communications services (ECS) and electronic communications network services (ECNS) providers in South Africa.”
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TRANSNET / TRANSTEL ??????? / NEOTEL ??????

Can someone please tell me who owns what :erm::eek:


MW
 
That infinite bandwidth still doesn't give me signal in my area.

Given neotel's track record, this can take 10 years, it took them long enough to launch commerical services within joburg, a city with a size that is sooooo massive at a whopping ..... wait its only about 100Km in any direction. gosh that took them 18 months, to durban is like 600Km so... wait... let me calculate.... that works out to..... oops 9 years.
 
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