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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 ...

The Zimbabwe situation

It is so pathetic to know that people in my country of birth are still being fooled by the politician people's tactics. They only come to their areas when its time for campaigning so that they get votes from them. They lavishly spent their cash money, which they are stealing from country. All they do is buy beer for people to drink and get drunk after that they tell them lies. After that they go, during voting time you give them your votes and they go to parliament. These politicians after voted into parliament they forget about going back to those people they were buying beer for to get their votes. All they do is eat with their families  for the next term they are  voted in  for. They are no developments in areas they are voted for, no projects to help the youths in those areas to do and generate income for themselves. I have been to Zimbabwe recently and found out that the young people wakes up and go to the bars to drink...

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