Comments for youngBLOOD by Colin Daniels

Comment on Bullardgate: A BIG shout-out to the Blogosphere by sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:22:44 +0000

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

Comment on Steve Hofmeyr on blogging… huh? by Adrie Nel

Adrie Nel — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:00:09 +0000

Why does everyone always have to critisize Steve? He is as human as you and me.

Comment on Lara Croft flys in from a deep, dark jungle just to meet me! by Nick Herbert

Nick Herbert — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:21:31 +0000

One for the grand kids my boy. Great pic!

Comment on SA will experience strong Internet growth over the next 5 years says goldstuck by justinspratt

justinspratt — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:18:24 +0000

great post colin, great worth arthur (as always)… and a good conversation between daniel and arthur (dont be sorry Daniel!)

my 2 rupees worth:

1. Daniel – broadband culture is not the same as e-commerce adoption and more so, the relationship is tenuous at best – they can be mutually exclusive – so agree with Arthur on this one

2. like the Porsche in driveway metaphor – brill

3. Daniel – agree on Telkom point, disgaree on ISP “shunt this counrty” – I work for IS and the reality is that the Telkom costs are an input that everyone has transparency on, ie we cant mark this up. It then leaves the internet service provision – this is cookie-cut stuff now and massively competitive – so not too sure how ISP’s can have unfairly priced? the prohibitive costs come in the Telkom last mile component. Stick to blaming Telkom and your message is well put.

4. Liberalisation / competition points: the govt talks about this but it is merely lip service. They are as culpable as the inert ignoramuses at Telkom. Why? The govt get **MASSIVE** tax flows from the licensing fees (5% on revenue from MNO’s); then you add VAT and then corporate taxes of the license holders (read: monopolists, Telkom, Vodacom, MTN)

5. I agree with Daniel on Seacom emphatically and have discussed it with the likes of Arthur and Paul previously. More importantly, you missed the lack of in country backhaul infrastructure, long term contracts with other carriers on international backhaul, etc.

Thanks for the intellectual parrying guys. was interesting. viva la broadband

Comment on Western Spaghetti by francesca

francesca — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:44:04 +0000

Oh damn! I’m an Italian! You over there, have destroyed one of the most popular italian dishes! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment on Western Spaghetti by idale

idale — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:22:39 +0000

That’s just great! Nothing like some aldente pick up sticks…

Comment on SABCnews.com relaunches but with no breaking news by Colin Fibiger

Colin Fibiger — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:24:46 +0000

LOL. I was unaware of the the “Re-launch” and as a user, my first thought was “Get with the times”. I think so typically quasi government – what they think is novel and fresh is second hand anywhere else!

Comment on Western Spaghetti by Gregor

Gregor — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:36:08 +0000

Super cool video! I want to know how many frames this took to produce! Awesome

Comment on SA will experience strong Internet growth over the next 5 years says goldstuck by Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:05:26 +0000

Not at all, If you feel I’m trying to rubbish you, then I’ve obviously not made myself clear enough.

What I am saying is that I don’t think a new undersea cable will change things in the next 5 years. Telkom still throttles the local loop, Neotel will make a small dent, but 5 years is a little aggressive even for them.

We both agree that Internet access here is a luxury. Just because there is a new pipe, doesn’t mean Telkom/Neotel will automatically decide a larger cap is a must. The track record has been to throttle the connection and charge as much as you possibly can. A bigger pipe just means that, a bigger revenue source.

Europe is now pushing caps onto most users, and this is a continent with more bandwidth than anything else, so why would SA be any different in throttling the average user?

Anyway… sorry I spoke

Comment on SA will experience strong Internet growth over the next 5 years says goldstuck by Art2

Art2 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:23:52 +0000

So what is it exactly you are saying? That I am lying because I am counting more people connecting to small businesses’ ADSL connections? That I am talking nonsense because I dare to suggest that a new undersea cable will increase our bandwidth dramatically? That I am smoking something if I believe that a 40-fold increase in bandwidth will result in increased caps? The reality is that we are probably on the same side of the argument. In fact, it is part of our ongoing argument that the Internet is still treated as a luxury in this country – doled out like fine wine instead of being supplied almost freely like water when that is how it ought to be. We continually argue that bandwidth is too expensive. But it IS going to come down, however much you may wish to focus only on the negatives.
On broadband culture, you respond: “How? I see such a small amount of e-commerce being offered in this country still. There are a handful of sites which are local, the rest being outside of the border.” I have no idea what you are trying to say. That broadband culture us defined by e-commerce?? This study is a study of connectivity trends, not of e-commerce, and the trends show clearly that dial-up is being dumped in favour of broadband, and that people have woken up to the fact that dial-up is even more expensive than broadband. But we are NOT saying broadband is cheap, however much you are trying to rubbish us.
And tour comments about more bandwidth are so entirely irrelevant to what we are saying, it sounds like you are rolling out a well-worn diatribe. We are on record as declaring that a 1GB cap is an insult on a 4Mbps connection, and that caps in fact are holding back the Internet and knowledge economy in South Africa. Our report ism looking at the impact of the new undersea cable next yar, and it MUST result in increased caps. Are you saying that everything will remain exactly as it is now?
Look at the findings in context please Daniel, and don’t piss on everyone just because you find the bathroom dirty.