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MTN in talks over WiMax facility
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Roo!
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So that's why VDC has a 10% share in iBurst! Umm, the plot thickens!!!
Pitbull
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I find it strange that MTN can buy just about every opperator in the world but to get a License is so darn difficult.
*Well then to plan B
Buy a company that has a license... Does ICASA ever learn or do they like to be "Vaselined" time after time after time ?
*Well then to plan B
Buy a company that has a license... Does ICASA ever learn or do they like to be "Vaselined" time after time after time ?
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Probably every time, I don't see the rationale in giving the licences to inexperienced companies rather than experienced Telco's that actually know what they're doing anyway. Starting to look like the whole USAL fiasco.
Khyron
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Man, but ICASA is doing their best to stunt the growth of communications technology in this country...
If they had their way, I believe they would have us all beating drums as means of communication!
If they had their way, I believe they would have us all beating drums as means of communication!
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LCBXX
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You got to love Corporations with bags of cash.
I want this, I can't have it, so I buy somebody who does have it, and use it, and stick out my tongue at those who said I can't have it
Sounds faintly like the whole Telkom/BCX buy out??
I want this, I can't have it, so I buy somebody who does have it, and use it, and stick out my tongue at those who said I can't have it
Sounds faintly like the whole Telkom/BCX buy out??
Can't see MTN doing a deal with Telkom (they're too difficult to do business with) or iBurst (don't think Vodacom will allow it) so I guess it's Neotel or Sentech. Since Neotel don't really have much on the go I would say they will focus on Sentech ... plus Sentech needs the extra dosh to maybe roll out a few base stations so it may be a win-win.
Pitbull
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MTN is big on investments... Buying into Neotel might just be the beter 1 for offering maximum returns on your investment. Everyone hates Telkom so Neotel it will be I think
lilDeath
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ICASA ftl
At least they are consistently impotent... err.. incompetent
At least they are consistently impotent... err.. incompetent
AFAIK the only wireless thing Altech has to its credit is dealing with Satellite transmissions in DSTV decoders and vehicle monitoring, not really the same as wireless broadband which IMO has a lot more technical hurdles to overcome on the ground compared to satellite transmissions from one or more third-party satellites in space...Probably every time, I don't see the rationale in giving the licences to inexperienced companies rather than experienced Telco's that actually know what they're doing anyway. Starting to look like the whole USAL fiasco.
Having said that, if MTN and Altech were to embark on a WiMax joint-venture then it would most likely succeed, but do the Grim Poisonous Ivyness Creeper and !CASA really want new players like Altech in the market? - the fact that Telkodemonopolies is allowed to run a WiMax network suggests otherwise...
A Neotel-MTN alliance might not be such a bad idea actually. offer combined cellular and fixed line services along with internet as a triple play package...
ldmelsa
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In SA laptops are more pop than PC... me thinks.
This is very interesting, indeed!
But fixed line will always be better. Or maybe I should not say always, but rather, for the foreseeable future. WiMax is 70Mbps per base station, not per customer.
Maybe wireless is the future for SA.