Tag archive for "ADSL"

Arb Thoughts

Broadband, a legal right, in Finland

Comments 14 October 2009

The Finnish government have just introduced laws which will make it a legal right for every one of their 5.5 million population to have broadband access. Unlike the expensive 4 mb broadband speed received on the fastest telkom ADSL line locally, by the mid-2010 Finish citizen will be legally granted the right to a one-megabit broadband [...]

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Wireless-G’s excellent service

Comments 15 September 2009

Your Web AddiCT is wworking in Jozi and the only wifi available at the Garden Court is Vodacom’s Wifi offering Wirless G. The sign-up process is similar to applying for a home loan, long and tedious but being a Web AddiCT and desperate to connect to the web via wireless from my hotel room I signed [...]

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Arb Thoughts, Cape Town

TED Africa 2008 Cape Town :)

Comments 26 November 2007

from ear to ear. Dear TEDizens, We’re delighted to tell you that there will be another TED conference in Africa next year and that we hope to make it an annual event on the continent! TEDAfrica will be held in Cape Town, South Africa on September 29-October 1, 2008 (save the date!), and will follow the format [...]

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Arb Thoughts, Blogging, Google, Innovation, Web 2.0

Google’s Real Alternative!

Comments 09 November 2007

Elgoog is a mirror image of the Google website . The page and all results are displayed backwards. The site is called the “google mirror” as a parody of the term “mirror” in computer Science, which usually refers to a copy or backup . Elgoog has been denominated as the real [...]

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Africa

Come on Telkom

Comments 23 April 2007

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Blogging, SEO, Web 2.0

5 Lessons learnt from Speaking at Web PR+ by Sally Falkow

Comments 09 March 2007

Like today’s web, the Web PR+ conference was not a one way street of shameless plugs and speakers trying to force their products/services down your throat. A Collaborative experience of note, the speakers were not only educating the masses but learning from us too. The awesome Sally ‘get’s it’ Falkow has written these 5 lessons [...]

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Africa, Blogging

Did Thabo Mbeki read this blog?

Comments 09 February 2007

The State of the nation address & ICT…. President Thabo Mbeki’s State of the Nation address today emphasised ICT as a vital part of SA’s strategies to stimulate economic growth and reduce crime. Speaking this morning at the opening of Parliament, Mbeki also alluded to concrete steps being taken to reduce call termination rates and make SA [...]

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Africa, Arb Thoughts

Thabo Mbeki says Africa(n Digerati) will solve its problems

Comments 28 January 2007

Thabo Mbeki, the South African president, says that while Africa is determined to solve its own problems, the continent cannot allow wrong things to be done in the name of national sovereignty. Briefing an international panel at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, President Mbeki said it was clear that Africa could not do it [...]

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Telkom ADSL – Waiting more than 6-8 weeks?

Comments 07 December 2006

A friendly Telkom person gave Miguel a call on his mobile phone. Why would a fixed line operator call a customer on his mobile phone instead of the landline number? Would it not cost them zero to call from Telkom to a Telkom phone line? Miguel’s mobile service provider is Vodacom. Did you know that [...]

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