In the coming years, wherever fibre access is available, it will replace ADSL, and eventually kill it off. Leonard Cohen once said he heard there was a secret chord when he wrote the song Hallelujah. He then proceeded to spell out exactly how the chord went. The iconic lyrics are almost a theme song for those […]
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MyBroadband recently conducted its latest South African Fibre Survey, which revealed that there remains a strong demand for fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) in South Africa. The survey results further showed a decline in ADSL and VDSL connections, with FTTH and fixed-LTE showing strong growth. The survey was completed by 6,400 South African broadband users. People who completed
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As we enter the 2020s, space and internet technologies are converging. We find ourselves at the dawn of a space internet race. Technology giants like SpaceX, Softbank, Amazon, Google, Virgin, and Facebook could spend tens of billions of dollars to launch, operate, and replace thousands of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Over the next
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Fibreoptics, we’ve all heard of them, in fact, we’ve probably heard the term thrown around on TV so much in the last decade or so, we probably don’t even notice anymore. However, fibre optics are a pretty big deal in the world of technology, helping many things work. In fact, your internet wouldn’t be what
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Two drone enthusiasts have devised a new invention that allows drones to plant large numbers of seeds in minutes. South African Andries Louw and Australian Andrew Walker built a pneumatic firing module that shoots seeds into soil. It can spit out two seeds per second at velocities of anywhere between 150 and 300 metres per
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The incursion of satellite technology in global telecommunications business is on the rise, even though Nigeria and some other African countries still believe in fibre optic technology for efficiency and low cost delivery, writes Emma Okonji Although the communication satellite, which is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunications signals via a transponder
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The City of Cape Town is using a network of 1 600 close- circuit television (CCTV) cameras in a bid to prevent and detect crime, as well as monitor other incidents. The network is one of the largest of its kind in Africa. Between December 2018 and February 2019, the city’s CCTV cameras detected 4
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Communities across the country are increasingly insisting on open access fibre optic cable installations which provide a neutral platform for ISPs to compete with each other to the benefit of tenants and residents. That’s the word from South Africa’s Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) which says elected representatives of gated communities, estates and business parks
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Bandwidth, the speed at which you gain Internet access, is not something small business owners probably put much thought into. And that is a mindset worth changing. The Internet now plays a substantial role in business, probably to the extent that we take it for granted. Consider, for example, how extensively used a data-heavy function
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