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Wireless local loop substitute for copper?

Telkom SA is arguing that their copper local loop should not be considered an essential facility… yawn… standard LLU stalling tactic, but they got my attention with this statement: “It is Telkom’s contention that the wireless local loop these days is more than a substitute for both voice and broadband communications,” – Techcentral’s Candice Jones [...]

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2011 01 05 Simeon Miteff Regulatory
Technical Comments (1)

Broadband data caps explained

Data volume quotas or “bandwidth caps” are restrictions introduced by the South African ISP industry to cope with the introduction of ADSL. Prior to ADSL, the amount of upstream bandwidth required by an ISP to service N users was naturally limited by the fact that telephone calls are expensive: users dialed up, did what they [...]

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2010 09 17 Simeon Miteff Technical Comments Off

A coherent SA government plan for telecoms?

Broadband Infraco was issued an I-ECNS license, but refused an I-ECS license, meaning they’re permitted to provide wholesale, but not retail services. Dominic Cull commented on an earlier post of mine: The whole IECS debate now seems pretty irrelevant given that the Minister of Comms has decided they will not get one .. To allow [...]

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2009 11 03 Simeon Miteff Regulatory Comments (2)

New kid on the block: Neology

AS37105 (NEOLOGY-AS) recently appeared in the BGP routing tables, announcing two /24 prefixes, with transit via Imperial Online. This is what Roelf Diedericks of Neology had to say about it: Neology supplies IAP services to ISP’s in the local market, this includes radius, billing and RealSoon(tm), ADSL IPConnect termination for multiple ISP’s. We will be [...]

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2009 07 23 Simeon Miteff Technical Comments (1)

Why Infraco needs a license

The issue of Broadband Infraco getting a license has been dragging on since 2007. In a nutshell, this would enable them to provide services directly to the industry as opposed to just being a sub-contractor for Neotel. Finally this saga is nearing it’s conclusion, as Infraco has to submit it’s application to ICASA by 20 [...]

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2009 03 20 Simeon Miteff Regulatory Comments (4)