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SA plans 'super cable links'
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telkomsuig
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by the time it's built in 2020 it won't be super high capacity anymore 
. seriously though all this airy fairy talk may just scare off the two private cables allready in the pipline putting us exactly in the same position we are in at the moment.
. seriously though all this airy fairy talk may just scare off the two private cables allready in the pipline putting us exactly in the same position we are in at the moment.
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Agh, just more govern-mental wet dreams! I will believe it when I see it and can reap the fruits of unshaped, cheap no cap true broadband, not the "type of broadband" that is in the governments mindset.
PS: I wonder if anything better than a telkom line is a "Super-cable" link in their eyes? After all they are not used to technology
PS: I wonder if anything better than a telkom line is a "Super-cable" link in their eyes? After all they are not used to technology
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In South Africa there seems to be the general policy of our Government to pump its mouth before anything concrete is on the table. Why can't they actually get the job done first and then have a public song and dance about it?
In South Africa there seems to be the general policy of our Government to pump its mouth before anything concrete is on the table. Why can't they actually get the job done first and then have a public song and dance about it?
Isn't that true for 80% of all people as well? Life is strange
How about we finish the cables that are in the pipeline already before coming up with some half brained idea of laying another 2 cables.
I can see it now... First government have to form a committee. Then find a caterer to supply donuts during the meetings. Then do an environmental impact assessment. Then have another meeting. Then have a parliamentary debate. Then have a break because the world cup will be on. Then start all over again because some dumbass lost all the files...
Bleh
I can see it now... First government have to form a committee. Then find a caterer to supply donuts during the meetings. Then do an environmental impact assessment. Then have another meeting. Then have a parliamentary debate. Then have a break because the world cup will be on. Then start all over again because some dumbass lost all the files...
Bleh
lol.. Guys be happy.. The more cables we have the better.. Owned by different people meaning competition meanin better prices.. Be positive for a change.. Things are starting to turn around.. Give it till next year.. It will just get better and better.. If not then you can come shoot me
Ditto.
Secondly. If we had just managed what we had in the SAT3 cable, all this extra expense from the tax payers pocket wouldn't have been necessary. Ultimately we would have needed a new cable, but at least we could have kept that capacity for the Public's benefit.
The SAT3 cable ownership and the rights to access its capacity was botched up and given to Telkom on a Silver Platter, while Telkom was still part of the Post Office and paid for with our Taxes. At least part of it.
What is to say this new cable won't go the same route into some or other scheme.
What if a Tsunami took it out. Where would we be then.
Am I optimistic or pessimistic?
You are probably right, but we have to have our rant. It helps sooth the frustration.
01. The prices has come down... a little.. but its still a far cry from what it should be.
02. We're drowning in LOADS of local bandwidth, and very little International Bandwidth!. With all the CRAP that flows out of those holes called Mouths at ICASA / DOC / Government etc, nothing has actually happened yet...
03. We keep hearing about undersea cables... but not one of them has actually started!... I bet in a few weeks time there will be yet another article stating how the consortiums are sitting feet up at their desks pulling their fiber, and doing jack about the fiber that really matters!
04. Everything is imminently dragging their feet, much about nothing really, and i bet you those fiber cables being layed allover the place is to hook up cable TV for Thabo!.
So all in all IBIWISI. Until i have faster than 384k Uncapped DSL plugged into my pc at an affordable price (yes, less than R600 p/m) with fantastic latency... Then I'll act more optimistic!.
It's the same story every year :
Thabo and his mates hold lekgotla; declare telecoms costs to be too high blah blah...; press dutifully reports it ; we get mildly excited at the idea that someone higher up gives a ****. Nothing happens.
Repeat anually;
Thabo and his mates hold lekgotla; declare telecoms costs to be too high blah blah...; press dutifully reports it ; we get mildly excited at the idea that someone higher up gives a ****. Nothing happens.
Repeat anually;
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bekdik
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What % of SAT3 allocated to RSA is being used? Anyone know??
Have to agree here. The government tiptoe around the obvious so often they must either be blind or just plain dumb.
Maybe a healthy dose of both.
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2 new west coast cables. This announcement probably has to do with the square kilometre array where the other bidder is Australia. I believe the decision about who will get to build it is probably fairly close.
I can imagine that the scientists who will work with that array, as well as the ones working on the new observatory in Sutherland would prefer a most direct link to the UK and/or USA.
I have no idea how an intermediate landing point of an undersea cable is constructed, but the thought of Somalia being one of them makes my eye brows raise. Imagine, half the internet traffic to/form South Africa held to ransom by a Somalian warlord because they were able to capture the landing site.
I can imagine that the scientists who will work with that array, as well as the ones working on the new observatory in Sutherland would prefer a most direct link to the UK and/or USA.
I have no idea how an intermediate landing point of an undersea cable is constructed, but the thought of Somalia being one of them makes my eye brows raise. Imagine, half the internet traffic to/form South Africa held to ransom by a Somalian warlord because they were able to capture the landing site.