Seacom Conference
Posted on 29 May, 2009 at 11:47 AM
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About the Show
David ventures out of the Obox HQ to the Seacom Conference in Durban.
He meets up with Charl Norman, Jason Bagley and others to see what's going on with Africa's internet breakthrough. They kind of miss the point, fuel their tired bodies with Red Bull and mistake a heavy duty generator for THE INTERNET.
Serious stuff not mentioned in this post:
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User Comments
David Perel 29 May, 2009 18:26:19 PM
Good point... those companies should pay us for this video :)
If you read the serious link which we provide in the post you will see that we shouldn't expect anything spectacular for the next 5 yrs at least.
The problem is that our infrastructure is not capable of supporting the speeds that this cable provides.
Alan 29 May, 2009 18:48:02 PM
True! Glad I'm livin in the UK for now. It was very frustrating working on the net when I lived in SA.
Speed wise, anything over a 1Meg will do. Even here companies brag about 8meg lines but when you test it you're lucky if you get over 1meg.
Thats where fiber to your door comes in and yes you re right that sort of infrastructure is a long way away for the regular South African internet consumer.
Hopefully this will at least bring down the cost of international bandwidth in SA. More Gigs for your money.
Marc 29 May, 2009 19:17:12 PM
Great vid David. Love the post production work as well. Well done :) Love your co-stars, you guys would make a great soapie. Egoli has nothing on you guys :P Great meeting you to :)
kyle steed 29 May, 2009 19:29:41 PM
"I can touch the internet, you not touch the interent."
hahaha - my favorite quote.
Great job David, and nice to see a change of scenery.
David Perel 29 May, 2009 21:21:10 PM
@Marc - Dude it was cool meeting you. I reckon you gain 10 points just because your name is ends with a 'c' and not a 'k'. Cool stuff... but I must say, you can keep the humidity in Durbz mate.
@Kyle - Jason was classic, he is usually quite out spoken in his blogging, so when I heard he was coming with I had to lean on his character a bit. It would have a been a robbery if I didn't.
divinefusion 29 May, 2009 21:37:40 PM
i'm a mac & I like the internet. Great to see FTC on the road. Next time, camera on a bike helmet?//
JBagley 30 May, 2009 10:05:47 AM
Freaking loved the video! Charl and I were pretty good video hosts for the day. Hehe!
Jacques Bruwer 30 May, 2009 14:17:15 PM
Loving the vid guys, funny stuff @Charl "I can build the internet, set this up at home"
Cheers guys
Brendan 30 May, 2009 15:23:26 PM
That font is working hard... David/Marc, why was this not put on the table during web build pre-production?
No worries, next time. Cheers.
Sam 01 Jun, 2009 01:09:06 AM
Interesting stuff. Quite funny, I was watching a similar video 2 weeks ago about the new cable coming into Australia (online in September I believe).
Minnaar Pieters 01 Jun, 2009 09:45:47 AM
Wow, this video makes me feel like I was there!
Oh wait...
Great meeting you guys!
David Perel 01 Jun, 2009 22:26:19 PM
@Minnaar - It was a pleasure meeting you man, that chat on the flight home was cool!
Rob MacKay 02 Jun, 2009 14:18:41 PM
bah - I think the big blue generator type room was much better looking Internet than that stupid small bit of fiber :P
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Alan 29 May, 2009 18:11:11 PM
Great product placement guys LOL
MACbook and Daves PC mention Redbull Goldfish
All good. Lets hope it helps speed things up.