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Question of the Day: What's the most interesting small town you've visited in South Africa?
DSL continues to outgrow other broadband access technologies
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telkomsemoer
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SA years behind
Israel: population 6m, civil war, DSL subscribers 600 000 (Q4 2004, that was 10% of population already), source: http://www.internetworldstats.com/dsl.htm
SA: population 45m (of which at least 6m middle-class), peace and prosperity, DSL subscribers 120 000 (Q1 2006)
It seems to me that if you want to hide something from Africans, you'd better put it in a "large" (say, one megabyte) file on the Internet and we'll never be able to find it.
Israel: population 6m, civil war, DSL subscribers 600 000 (Q4 2004, that was 10% of population already), source: http://www.internetworldstats.com/dsl.htm
SA: population 45m (of which at least 6m middle-class), peace and prosperity, DSL subscribers 120 000 (Q1 2006)
It seems to me that if you want to hide something from Africans, you'd better put it in a "large" (say, one megabyte) file on the Internet and we'll never be able to find it.
As international bandwidth is so expensive according to Telkom's spin doctors, it is always useful to compare South Africa with Australia.
Australia with less than half our population has surged ahead of South Africa on the quantity of Internet and Broadband Users in comparison and they are by far much further away from Europe and the concentration of internet users and the "expensive bandwidth".
Australia with less than half our population has surged ahead of South Africa on the quantity of Internet and Broadband Users in comparison and they are by far much further away from Europe and the concentration of internet users and the "expensive bandwidth".
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friedpiggy
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ok this is just getting depressing now. i reckon the only solution is to take telkom and force them to pay their own rates for a year. make them have to pay the guavamint the fees for every single internal extension they have. ie a R90 / month rental and then R10 /minute or whatever they currently charge. once they have to do that, not only will there be a LOT more money to use on needy projects, but also, watch their prices come tumbling down.
or heres a brilliant idea for you. eskom is involved in the sno. get eskom to triple the price of electricity for telkom offices and also on the private residences of senior management/directors. hehehe watch them gripe then.
or heres a brilliant idea for you. eskom is involved in the sno. get eskom to triple the price of electricity for telkom offices and also on the private residences of senior management/directors. hehehe watch them gripe then.
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So now the murkey schemes of Telkom begins to get clearer. They were caught red-handed overcharging for inadequate services.
They shifted the blame over to ISPs by implementing the pay-per-usuage billing module (but are still 'abusing' the SA consumer because the per-usuage pricing model is still way too high, the local-loop gives them a monopoly on charging for connectivity between homes and business AND they control our international gateway (SAIX).
We know they've been testing IPTV and it goes without saying that this WILL result in enormous revenue streams once uptake exceeds critical mass - and Telkom is obviously delusional enough to think we won't pickup on their future schemes to empty our pockets of every last cent. IPTV WILL require at least 10x the current Telkom-approved bandwidth cap to be effective - which will naturally shatter Telkom's deluded and unfounded claims of what constitues 'broadband' - but will also give them more revenue. They just have to wait until the demand outgrows our tolerance so they can overcharge for that service as well and hope we'll be too grateful to point out that IPTV etc. is what broadband was designed for in the first place …. And all we had to do was put up with 6/7 years (sadly it will still take years before we get use of this type of service) of extended ISDN/dial-up services in ADSL-clothing
* The SNO is currently in possession of my hopes and faith that they'll make a meaningful contribution to this country and help bring us out of Telkom's stranglehold, but until they prove themselves, I cannot in good conscience include them in my personal analysis above *
<--- GRRRR I made a New Year's resolution not to get p1ssed-off when thinking of how Telkom abuses us (or snear at every Telkom van I see parked under a tree LoL), but it seems to me that it would be easier to squeeze my foot into a can of coke and walk from Jhb to Dbn in the middle of winter
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They shifted the blame over to ISPs by implementing the pay-per-usuage billing module (but are still 'abusing' the SA consumer because the per-usuage pricing model is still way too high, the local-loop gives them a monopoly on charging for connectivity between homes and business AND they control our international gateway (SAIX).
We know they've been testing IPTV and it goes without saying that this WILL result in enormous revenue streams once uptake exceeds critical mass - and Telkom is obviously delusional enough to think we won't pickup on their future schemes to empty our pockets of every last cent. IPTV WILL require at least 10x the current Telkom-approved bandwidth cap to be effective - which will naturally shatter Telkom's deluded and unfounded claims of what constitues 'broadband' - but will also give them more revenue. They just have to wait until the demand outgrows our tolerance so they can overcharge for that service as well and hope we'll be too grateful to point out that IPTV etc. is what broadband was designed for in the first place …. And all we had to do was put up with 6/7 years (sadly it will still take years before we get use of this type of service) of extended ISDN/dial-up services in ADSL-clothing
* The SNO is currently in possession of my hopes and faith that they'll make a meaningful contribution to this country and help bring us out of Telkom's stranglehold, but until they prove themselves, I cannot in good conscience include them in my personal analysis above *
<--- GRRRR I made a New Year's resolution not to get p1ssed-off when thinking of how Telkom abuses us (or snear at every Telkom van I see parked under a tree LoL), but it seems to me that it would be easier to squeeze my foot into a can of coke and walk from Jhb to Dbn in the middle of winter
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