Well, Mithun, all I can say is I can't wait to see Telscum (Telkom) having their butts kicked. To give you guys and idea how expensive telecommunications is over here, a study was recently done in Cape Town proving that you will save ZAR 2000.00, give or take, to fly to Hong Kong, go to an Internet cafe and download 100GB of data, compared to doing it locally.
The main rub is, Telkom owns the largest percentage of the SAT3 cable running to Europe from here. That was put in with taxpayers' money. Surely we are entitled to some benefits from it as well. That is why South Africa, despite being the most prosperous country in Africa, has been overtaken Internetwise by Ethiopia and Somalia, where they don't know where their next meal is coming from. Oh, sorry about this. I just needed to get this off my chest. Tom Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: >That is because of the SAFE network I guess. > >http://www.apnic.net/mailing-lists/s-asia-it/archive/2001/02/msg00045.html > >I believe other submarine network also touches base at South Africa on >its way to europe. > >Best of luck with the onset of competition in the market !! :) > > > >Mithun > > > >__________________________________ >Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. >http://farechase.yahoo.com > >_______________________________________________ >ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] >http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd >Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
