Comment Re:Why Our Tellecomunications Company sux (Score 1) 282
It is a whole lot worse than enforcing things like that. Recently, they just upped their rates in direct contravention to a governing body known as ICASA. The problem is that in this country ISPs have a very delicate problem: They are not allowed to sell bandwidth unless they're a 1st or 2nd tier ISP. In effect, this actually in some ways renders VPNs entirely illegal. You're not allowed to share bandwidth with an office if it is not in the same building. Buildings are defined as walled or solid partitions between companies, so for example one could have an office on a the 2nd floor of a "building" and an office on the 4th floor belonging to the same company, and the only way you're legally allowed to link them is to install a leased line
It goes further (I can substantiate every single one of these with direct excerpts from the Telecommunications act)... Telkom enjoys free unrestrained rights to the airways, all tellecommunications structures and even have their finger in the pie with the largest cellular service provider in the country. In development terms, we are just getting further and further behind the rest of the world in terms of communications technologies. Some people believe that that is because we're a third world country. In effect, we're not because we were amongst the first fifty connected countries in the world. We have more corporate websites than Arizona. The problem comes in the mere fact that we have not developed at the same speed as the rest of the communications world.
As far as Satalite communications go, there is no real solution. You're not allowed to do uplinks in South Africa unless going through Telkoms structure. So, satalite services are download only which after doing some calculations work out more expensive than using a Leased Line solution.
That's not a good option at all as in real terms Leased Lines cost on average up to 90% more than the same service in most other countries.
It goes further (I can substantiate every single one of these with direct excerpts from the Telecommunications act)... Telkom enjoys free unrestrained rights to the airways, all tellecommunications structures and even have their finger in the pie with the largest cellular service provider in the country. In development terms, we are just getting further and further behind the rest of the world in terms of communications technologies. Some people believe that that is because we're a third world country. In effect, we're not because we were amongst the first fifty connected countries in the world. We have more corporate websites than Arizona. The problem comes in the mere fact that we have not developed at the same speed as the rest of the communications world.
As far as Satalite communications go, there is no real solution. You're not allowed to do uplinks in South Africa unless going through Telkoms structure. So, satalite services are download only which after doing some calculations work out more expensive than using a Leased Line solution.
That's not a good option at all as in real terms Leased Lines cost on average up to 90% more than the same service in most other countries.
