SA IT Competitiveness: This is where the country fails

The inability to get decent bandwidth for cheaps is an unovercome-able barrier-to-entry for almost any microbusiness that an entrepreneur might want to start. And so the space is dominated by medium-to-large players who are, to put it kindly, "slow movers". (Any implication that they are retarded is purely coincidental).
 
As long as we pay R50+ per gig for internet, R500 p/m for 384kb ADSL (no ISP), we can forget to be competitive.

I'm a developer.. I can't download my MSDN downloads from home... so how can I check all the latest stuff from Microsoft? We have to download from work...

And I'm intrested setting up a website (have and idea or two).. but bandwith will kill my site). Host overseas? Well, pay R50 per gig yah!!

But our goverment don't care...
 
Well as I've said before internet = education, education = improved economy... However education creates informed citizens, which means no votes for the ANC.
 
Blame the Doc and ICASA + Telkom NO LLU no Future
 
Another ill which South Africa’s government, and especially the ‘previous’ Department of Communications, may well be guilty of is the protection of ‘national champions’. “Protectionism and support for ‘national champions’ will hinder recovery efforts — and longer term sector competitiveness.”
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I like the way 'previous' was put in quotes .. as if the 'current' DoC wasn't guilty of the same
 
@TelkomUseless.

You can download from MSDN using local bandwidth which is cheap.
 
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