SHOOT: Fascinating, and Korea is streets ahead. Literally in a way. It is a very urban dense country, which promotes the use of FTTH. The vast majority of urban dwellings are uniform high rises, densely packed together, which makes it cheaper and simpler to outlay these expensive capables.
Duncan McLeod: Imagine sitting on your couch at home, watching a high-definition movie being streamed to you directly over the Internet. Imagine your son in his bedroom, streaming YouTube videos. And your daughter in the study, downloading music and trawling Wikipedia for a homework assignment. Imagine all this happening over the same connection.
It's difficult for South Africans to imagine. We're used to the idea of pausing YouTube videos while we wait for them to load. And even then we're constantly worried that we'll hit the bandwidth caps imposed by our service providers.
So the sort of high-speed, uncapped products being rolled out across Asia, Europe and North America are enough to bring tears to the eyes of the average SA Internet user.
In SA, only Neotel has indicated that it can offer FTTH services. For now, though, it will provide these on a case-by-case basis only and costs are prohibitive.
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