# More wireless
Senkwe just mentioned a new wireless player in South Africa: iBurst, who should be going live by the end of 2004. Pretty cool, although yet again, our side of Northcliff hill probably won't be covered, and as Senkwe hints, there's no guarantee that they'll be any good, as much as one hopes they will be.
What is heartening though is that Sentech, despite the many issues their service has had, has nudged open the floodgates. A great many new players will probably start stepping into the market to meet the pent-up demand for first-world connectivity. I'm sure that wireless is going to be *big* in South Africa, precisely because of Telkom's monopoly on terrestrial infrastructure. Hopefully that will also force Telkom to make its broadband more competitive to avoid being sidelined by the wireless operators.
What is heartening though is that Sentech, despite the many issues their service has had, has nudged open the floodgates. A great many new players will probably start stepping into the market to meet the pent-up demand for first-world connectivity. I'm sure that wireless is going to be *big* in South Africa, precisely because of Telkom's monopoly on terrestrial infrastructure. Hopefully that will also force Telkom to make its broadband more competitive to avoid being sidelined by the wireless operators.
File under: techie : {2004.08.25 12:27}
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