Telkom urges use of local content

Mr. Alphonzo Samuels embarrassed himself with his "local content" statements... ?

  • Yes. It boggles the mind that somebody in his position can make such uninformed statements.

    Votes: 156 98.1%

  • No. Mr Samuels has got a point.

    Votes: 2 1.3%

  • Not sure.

    Votes: 1 0.6%
  • Total voters
    159
He says a lack of local content is one of the main reasons the price of broadband in SA is high; most of the content users access is located on foreign servers.

WiMax will, however, not be the main thrust of Telkom's broadband programme.

Rather, it will be complementary to its fixed lines.
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DUH!!!!!! give this guy a noddy badge. Seems he got a A+ in 'Dumbass 101'. Lack of Local content is COS OF TELKOM!

More technology down the toilet.. glug..
 
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He says a lack of local content is one of the main reasons the price of broadband in SA is high; most of the content users access is located on foreign servers."
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At the exorbitant rates of local hosting who can blame people for moving content overseas? And how do you develop multimedia for a country where most of their broadband connections carry inhibitive bandwidth caps? And if local content is so important for Telkom why impose a hard cap now on both local and international traffic?

Drop the cost of local bandwidth!! But I guess this solution slipped Telkom’s mind.
 
Local Hosting Costs Exorbitant.

Gawd. Where did they find this dude.:confused::eek:

Just wasted my time reading a whole page of useless content.
Does this dude have any clue how much it costs to host locally in South Africa?
 
Telkom is committed to increasing its broadband penetration from 120,000 to 1m lines within the next three years.
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Yeah good luck with that one especially when every month it seems that you hear about yet another metropolitan area going wireless just to get away from telkom.
Telkom's new broadband tsar
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erm - we all remember what happened to the tsars ;)
 
only question is whether they actually believe this garbage or whether there is a crafted strategy to flood the market with BS so as to further disinform mainstream consumers
 
They must have a lucky packet system at their headqaurters, I reckon this latest gem from Telk$m must have been the mail guy last week! Either that or this last press release was the winner of the weekly Telk$m internal mail fictional cr@p competition, way to go! :cool:
 
He says a lack of local content is one of the main reasons the price of broadband in SA is high; most of the content users access is located on foreign servers.
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May the circle never end. Telkom blames content providers, content providers just blame Telkom along with everyone else. It is the duty of the infrastructure provider to provide fair and cost-effective broadband access for users and content providers alike.
 
LMPA. I really wonder sometimes if i can get some of the **** their smoking at telkom hq.

puff puff pass that **** over here.
 
playkiller no.2 said:
Please post warning next time.
*Warning this news post contains a Telkom idiot talking*
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Much easier to post a notice when its not an idiot if its from telkom.
 
I can just see the agenda in the PR dept - Things to convince public:
earth is flat
sun revolves around earth
telkom cares
 
I love the way they try and justify on how Korea got cheap broadband - because the bulk is "local content" - what BS. It was government investment in BB that led Korea to have one of the highest BB in the world.
 
Probabaly cheaper to Host in Rwanda.

Need cheap DSL? Go to Rwanda

"There is a vision here that, if we do this in Rwanda, and it works, then maybe people will take the same approach in other countries. Maybe the rest of Africa can come out of the digital divide."
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The people in Rwanda have more vision than our local jerks.
 
Telkom said:
He says a lack of local content is one of the main reasons the price of broadband in SA is high; most of the content users access is located on foreign servers.
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OMFW...
 
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Telkom argues that its broadband users consume an average of 2,5 GB/month and that the caps are in place to tackle network "abuse" and maintain quality of service.
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First we try not to go over the cap as the result of it is horrible, because after you gone over the cap a dailup connection is faster.

Also quality of service blah that is a good one. The speed i get without using the proxy of saix to browse just tells me the oposite and not to mention the download speeds without the proxy.

Sorry but that statement of quality of service just does not fit into the picture i see daily sorry.
 
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