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ADSL on its last legs in South Africa

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  By   Daniel Puchert Partially state-owned telecommunications company Telkom announced in its financial results for the year ending 31 March 2025 that its ADSL subscribers had more than halved to under 30,000. According to the company’s operational data, ADSL lines decreased from 64,959 in March 2024 to 29,770. This 54.2% decline highlights that the legacy broadband technology is slowly approaching the end of the road. Telkom’s ADSL business peaked at the end of March 2016 with 1.01 million subscribers — two years after fibre upstart Vumatel  broke ground in Parkhurst . What followed was a sharp decline in Telkom ADSL subscribers. Customers connected to its copper networks decreased by more than 500,000 over the next four years. This was partly driven by Telkom itself, which began actively switching off its copper network in some neighbourhoods. If it did not have fibre in the area, it would offer a “fixed line lookalike” wireless service that ran over its cellular ...
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Africa we need to wake up

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The Americans and the Europeans are on a mission iin this world, they kill leaders who they don like and put theirs. They also aim for countries which are rich in resources like oil and diamonds. These are the most wanted on their lists. They kill us remove our leaders take the resources and build their reserves. The put Saddam Hussain and deposed him they helped Gaddafi and they now they have killed him using their NATO. Their mission is getting to where they want. Target is Iran now America is going to fight a war with Iran one day. Israel is going to be used in the middle east. 
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Iran nuclear crisis: EU moves towards crude oil ban

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EU member states have agreed in principle to ban imports of Iranian crude oil to put pressure on the country over its nuclear programme. The move is expected to be announced formally at an EU foreign ministers' meeting at the end of January. The US, which recently imposed fresh sanctions on Iran, welcomed the news. Iran has dismissed the threat of new sanctions and denies Western claims that it is trying to develop a nuclear weapons programme. Iran has also denied that a record low of its currency this week was linked to punitive US measures against its banks. Oil prices on international markets rose on news of the EU agreement. "We have an [EU] foreign ministers' meeting on January 30, and on this occasion I hope we will be able to take the decision on the embargo of oil and petrol from Iran", said French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe. "We have to reassure some of our European partners who purchase Iranian oil. We have to provide them with alternative solut...
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Profile: Kim Jong-un

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Kim Jong-un was educated in Switzerland Continue reading the main story Kim Jong-il dead Memorial in pictures Uniting N Korea in grief Mystical cult of personality Genuine tears? Kim Jong-un has taken on the mantle of North Korea's supreme leadership with little political or military experience behind him. But he was named head of the party, state and army within a fortnight of his father's death on 17 December 2011. Kim Jong-il, North Korea's "Dear Leader", was in the process of grooming Kim Jong-un as his successor when he died. Immediately after his father's death, Jong-un was hailed as "the great successor". But little is known about the elusive young man who is the youngest son of Kim Jong-il and his late third wife Ko Yong-hui, Born in 1983 or early 1984, he was initially not thought to be in the frame to take up his father's mantle. Analysts focused their attention on his half-brother Kim Jong-nam and older full brother Kim ...
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Two Koreas 'at a turning point' says South president

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2 January 2012 Last updated at 04:47 GMT Facebook Twitter Two Koreas 'at a turning point' says South president South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said a window of opportunity to improve ties was open Continue reading the main story Kim Jong-il dead Memorial in pictures Uniting N Korea in grief Mystical cult of personality Genuine tears? The Korean peninsula is at a "turning point" and there are opportunities for change, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said in a new year speech. He said Seoul would "respond strongly" if provoked by North Korea, with whom it remains technically at war. But he said that the biggest goal was stability, and that aid-for-disarmament talks could resume if Pyongyang halted its nuclear activities. On Sunday North Korea told citizens to defend leader Kim Jong-un to the death. Kim Jong-un has succeeded his father, Kim Jong-il, who died on 17 December at the age of 69. On Friday, the country's powerful Nat...
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