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Parkmore and Smartvillage
http://www.smartvillage.co.za/html/home.html is a Naspers initiative used by ParkMore to lay fiber to the home.

sunspots
http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article.php?a_id=144110

MTN and Vodacom are just legal firms with antennas on their roof
MTN, Vodacom and Naspers will not allow Icasa to license 1.2ghz, 3.0ghz etc. for WiMax usage by the public, driving us underground. Spectrum scarcity like peak oil is a myth, it is a scam perpetuated by Vodacom and MTN so as to protect their monopoly as explained at WiMax.

Naspers opposes the usage of license free Wimax
Farming communities could use 1.4ghz WiMax to stream real-time UnmannedAerialVehicles footage, but Naspers will oppose such an initiative.

Factually wrong
http://www.smartvillage.co.za/index.php?option=com_sobi2&sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=0&sobi2Id=9&Itemid=183 "...While inside gated estates developers and occupants have the freedom to do whatever they like, in traditional suburbs residents would need to find a company with the legal right to provide telecoms infrastructure to offer such services...."

This is factually wrong. Only the courts can decide whether it is legal or not for open streets to lay fiber. This is not for the SAPS, Naspers, Vodacom, NPA or ANC or the minister of communications to decide. All the NPA can do is prosecute a road cutter, something they wouldn't dream of doing and thus the legality or not from a criminal perspective will forever remain of academic interest.

News article
http://www.smartvillage.co.za/index.php?option=com_sobi2&sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=0&sobi2Id=9&Itemid=183

Naspers and DSTV
Naspers is diversifying out of South-Africa because they can't become a content provider like Google with our crippled bandwidth. Furthermore they are protecting their DSTV venture. Naspers is forbidden by law and Icasa to provide Internet via their DSTV equipment.

A CommunityBlockNetwork will create DslamWifiTopology bandwidth that they will be enable us setup their own broadcasting stations and become a content provider in addition to preventing criminals from executing drivers as they come home.

What the news media is saying without putting it in so many words is that they would rather have crime then allow a TelevisionOverInternet via DecentralisedNetworks because such a CommunityBlockNetwork becomes what the news media wishes to become: The next SA Google. CctvCameras operated by the community converges over the IP protocol and it is not possible to prevent that same CCTV network being used to stream a live DSTV Discovery channel which Naspers owns.

The same battle is being waged in the USA between Verizon and Google. Google wants infinite bandwidth for free for everybody to sell content. The crime problem will never be solved unless we implement this Wi-Fi/fixed wired topology I described here TelephoneNetworkRollout. Bandwidth makes all of this possible and the only constraint was costs. Cabling every home won't work only by combining MeshNetworking and illegal WiMax with an underground stage1 ducting system will this level of network integration and community cooperation be possible. Once you have the bandwidth the applications for solving the crime will automatically be enabled.

ANC government dictates to Naspers
Naspers and Telkom's interets are converging as the IP protocol over fiber and DsLam becomes the new broadcasting and television distribution medium. Naspers don't want this convergence process to happen outside a centralized channel like Telkom because it will impact on their DSTV venture. More about these issues under LegalPerspective

Cooperate directly with content providers
"...Deukom, which provided content for DStv's German channel for 10 years, was refused a license because it did not comply with local content requirements...."

Solution for Deukom:

Establish 1600megs between 400 houses and the network can scale to any size at a later date. Designate one house as your content distributor, they will house the DsLam. Work out a subscription package with each home and feed your live Deukom content via a single satellite feed to the CentralOffice.

Lets presume Deukom manages to sign up 400 subscribers in a CommunityBlockNetwork. First make everybody sign a debit order for the physical network. With the debit orders signed and the initial stage1 ducting laid you complete the physical network within two weeks. Within one month that everybody signed they will have their Deukom content streamed from a single DSLAM to each street node VDSL2 modem from where via DslamWifiTopology each house accesses the content.

Deukom should have some sort of leasing agreement with the CentralOffice house. What I am describing here is exactly the same sort of thing http://www.atec.co.za does in closed estates, enabling us to bypass Icasa and deal directly with the content providers.

Each need not have its own DSTV decoder. What you are supposed to do is have a single home receive all the content and then re-stream the content over the DslamWifiTopology network to each home.

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