Neotel gains access to SAT3/SAFE

Angus Hay, Neotel’s Executive Head of Strategy, added that while they currently buy capacity from Telkom the company is in advanced stages to offer their clients full international circuits without using Telkom’s network at all. Hay pointed out that a ‘Telkom free’ circuit is in fact a requirement from one of their large clients.
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Champagne anybody?

Bestest news I've ever had!!! :D :D :D


oh, and....

DIE TELKOM!
 
*Tanarri is Holding his Breath...................................................... *
:) ;)
 
Syndyre said:
Nice! I'd love to know who that client is. :D Vodacom/MTN/IS/Verizon? :D
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All of the above - although Verizon Business should theoretically also be able to directly connect into SAT-3 through its parent company which is a SAT-3 shareholder, Verizon Business' problem is that it doesn't have a licence to self-provision its own national fibre optic network to get to and from Melkbosstrand, so it makes sense to go through NeeTel...
evilsee said:
does the sat-3 cable even have unused bandwidth?
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Yes, it does - contrary to the lies that Telkodemonopolies spews forth.
 
Hay pointed out that a ‘Telkom free’ circuit is in fact a requirement from one of their large clients.
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Syndyre said:
Nice! I'd love to know who that client is. :D Vodacom/MTN/IS/Verizon? :D
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Could be any large corporate interested in their enterprise offerings, not necessarily an ITC player I would have thought.

Nevertheless, I dig their policy! Hope many more large clients feel the same.

Time for Telkom to collapse in a heap! (The ITC sector will grow exponentially when the market is open, so most who work for Telkom will be gainfully employed elsewhere, but with better training)
 
IC, this is slightly off-topic, but do you have some kind of macro that automatically morphs words like "Telkom" -> "Telkomdemonopoly" and "Neotel" -> "Neetel"?
 
pkid said:
I wonder how much spare capacity is available on the cable???
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Good question.

All I can find is one of Telkom's cop-outs in 2006:

Attempts by the Mail & Guardian to ascertain from Telkom what portion of its SAT-3 capacity is currently underutilised were rebuffed by Telkom, which declared the information “commercially sensitive”.
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http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=264045&area=/insight/insight__economy__business/

Would be interesting to know
 
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