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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Ultra-Widebody Volkswagen Bus "Volkswide" Looks Like a Porsche Racing Van

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It's easy to understand why a muscle car or a Ferrari is cool - the big engine and cool body. But car culture is also influenced by television, rarity, or simply a generation growing up with a particular vehicle. The Volkswagen Bus is a perfect example of this because it's slow, not sporty-looking, yet it can cost a lot of money.
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The Bus is perhaps one of the least understood collectibles, right up there with bubble cars. You see them grabbing huge money at auctions, making it difficult to visualize why somebody wouldn't rather have a Ferrari or some 1960s Mustang.

Comedian Gabriel Iglesias is known as the VW Bus King, as his collection of Vdubs is reportedly worth in excess of $3 million. The Hoonigan crew recently did a feature video, but we still had trouble picturing the value of these vehicles. Fortunately, there's a set of renderings that takes the visuals of the Microbus to the level where everybody is going to be drooling... or at least people into body kits are.

South American artist Rob3rt Design has created an impeccable 3D model of a racing Kombi he calls the Volkswide. Brazil is like the second home of Volkswagen, and at one point, produced more of their cars than Germany. Even though this looks like a really old machine, The Type 2 model was produced there right up until 2013, and we hear people pay big money to have those newer models imported.

The one in the rendering looks more like a Porsche race car. Massive fender flares are added, almost doubling the width of the vehicle and giving it more character. The front also sports a chin spoiler for extra downforce, while all of the trademark chrome trim has been blacked out.

New headlights in a kind of Singer 911 style prove the artist paid attention to all the finer details. But the real party is at the back, where we have a big engine transplant with some quad exhaust tips.

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