Posts

Showing posts from March, 2012

ADSL on its last legs in South Africa

-
Image
  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 ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Love Poem 2

-
TO MY LOVER TRUST JUST DOESN’T COME WITHOUT EVENTS. TALKING IS EASY BUT TRUST IS HARD. HONESTY IS THE WAY FORWARD. BE HONEST TO YOURSELF BE HONEST TO YOUR PARTNER. FOR LOVE IS A BLESSING FROM GOD NOT ALL PEOPLE FINDS LOVE. IF ONE PESERVIRE IN HONEST IT GIVES BIRTH TO TREUST AND LIGHT OF LOVE GROWS. AS IT GROWS, IT BRINGS LIGHT INTO THE DARKNESS JUST LIKE THE SUN, THAT SHINES ON EARTH. TO LIGHT LIGHT TO GOD’S CREATION. SUNSHINE IS YOUR NAME. SO SHINE ABOVE ALL OADS AND BE YOURSELF, AS GOD HAS GIVEN YOU LIFE. AS   I SPEAK THESE WORDS, I HOPE THEY ARE OF GOOD WISDOM. FOR GOD HAS GIVEN ME THIS TIME, TO SIT AND WRITE THE POEM FOR YOU MY LOVER I GIVE THANKS AND PRAISE. IN HIM I TRUST.
Post a Comment
Read more

Love Poem

-
To be with you To make you my close friend To make belong to each other To always end our days in each other’s hands   It’s all because of the comfort, the trust,   the love the relaxation To mention just a few It doesn’t mean , l want to have someone to make love to, It doesn’t mean l just want someone to give me babies It doesn’t mean l just want someone to call my wife It doesn’t mean l just want some to be seen by people   moving around with. To be with you means l will redeemed No matter how hard the day might be   When l am with you it has change its shape You are the redeemer of my soul, that brings me close to Christ For to receive Christ you need to be happy you have to create a worm environment I may be affected by work , people at work can do all sorts of harm That can make me a sad person, unhappy and angry at times All will change when l come close to you Engulfed   in the comfort of your love   Enhancing a feeling of belonging Giving birth to ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Popular posts from this blog

Which countries have the world’s largest coal reserves?

-
Image
  Visual Capitalist Elements   | September 15, 2021 | 8:58 am   Intelligence   Australia   USA   Coal   The Countries With the Largest Coal Reserves Cheap and abundant coal remains one of the largest sources of energy worldwide, even as governments set out goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. While jurisdictions in Europe and North America have been phasing out coal use in power generation, it has been on the rise in Asia. China and India are scrambling to provide electricity to a growing population and relying on coal power plants to meet demands despite the environmental costs. SIGN UP FOR THE ENERGY DIGEST Sign Up This infographic takes a look into the  BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2021 , and the 11 countries that make up  89%  of the coal reserves globally. Coal Reserves, by Country While countries need to phase out coal by 2040 to achieve the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5ºC, consumption in key ...
Read more

MOTORS MARINE MAY 7, 2021 Boat of the Week: This 171-Foot Super-Luxe Sportfishing Yacht Is the Largest in the World

-
Image
  The epic vessel is a 30-knot "battlewagon" designed to chase marlin, swordfish and sailfish. It's also decidedly lavish. By  HOWARD WALKER           Courtesy Vripack To hook the world’s biggest fighting fish, in the words of Chief Brody in the classic 1975 movie  Jaws , “You’re going to need a bigger boat.” Privately owned  fishing  boats won’t come any bigger than this astonishing 171-foot super-luxury sportfisherman, set to claim the title of “World’s Largest Sportfish Superyacht.” Designed by Dutch naval architects  Vripack , and soon to start construction at the Royal Huisman yard in the Netherlands, Project 406 as it’s currently codenamed, will be a 30-knot “battlewagon,” designed to chase marlin, swordfish and sailfish to the ends of the earth. “Project 406 is a sportfishing machine on steroids,” Vripack co-creative director Bart M. Bouwhuis told  Robb Report . “It has the proportions of a typical American sportfishing ...
Read more

This New Ultralight Aircraft May Be World’s Fastest Single-Engine Business Jet

-
Image
  The speedy LAR-01's automotive interior adds comfort and luxury. Plus: The wings detach, so the jet can be stored in a home garage. By  MICHAEL VERDON           Courtesy Flaris The  Flaris  LAR-01 has a number of striking stats, including being a ton lighter (literally) than its competitors, along with an unusually short-field landing capability, and detachable wings. But its most impressive number is the 250-knot true air speed, which its designers say makes it the world’s fastest business jet among single-engine very light jets and turboprop aircraft. Flaris says recent tests “confirmed the assumptions made previously” about the effectiveness of multiple systems, including its Garmin G600 avionics and Flaris Flight Assistance System flight computer, as well as the landing gear and emergency parachute system. But it also claims more impressive stats like the 250-knot TSA at 10,000 feet. Its 6,000-feet-per-minute climb rate, adds the compan...
Read more