Monday, August 30, 2004
Finally an SNO licence and various sites
Hello, good morning and welcome to Cybersurf – your weekly window where the web matters – I am your friendly Cyberhost, Steven Lang. Today’s program is crammed full of info and addresses – but if you miss any of them – never fear, in about three minutes I’ll tell you where you can find the full script for Cybersurf.
Let’s get cracking – big news this last week was the announcement that the government is finally going to give a licence to a second national telephone operator - or SNO.
Why should we care – this is after all – an Internet program and not a phone program? Well the reason we should care is that an SNO will offer competition against the existing fixed line monopoly – this means that the availability of Internet bandwidth should increase, and prices should come down.
Broadband Internet access is cheaper in other countries where there is competition.
Who knows . . . . soon we might even have real broadband and affordable prices.
And if you are asking “why do you need broadband Internet access?” – you would certainly benefit from it if you wanted to download maps from an interesting site called www.themaps.co.za.
A listener by the name of Peter Slingsby suggested that I mention this site for travellers intending to spend some time in the Cape over the festive season. The site has many tourist oriented maps of the region – the free maps appear to concentrate on the hiker type of user – there are maps of Cape Point, Kirstenbosch, the Sevilla Rock Art Trail and others.
I have not had an in depth scout around the site – but if you are the outdoors type and plan on spending some time in the Western Cape – you will do well to look at www.themaps.co.za
Another tip sent on by a listener comes from Paul Janisch at EagleFord where they are now auctioning cars online. The very first car to go under the auctioneers mouse button went for R99 500 even though the recommended retail price was almost seventeen thousand rand more – sounds like a bargain to me.
At the next online auction – which opens on Wednesday – four vehicles – two new and two used will be up for grabs. Personally I think that if you know what vehicles should cost, you can score a bargain with an online auction. If you are interested, check out the site at www.eagleford.co.za.
And so we wrap up today’s edition of cybersurf, if you would like to read the script for the program, please go to www.cybersurf.blogspot.com – one more time www.cybersurf.blogspot.com - thanks for listening, next week, same time, same place till then . . . . . remember to keep on surfing.
Let’s get cracking – big news this last week was the announcement that the government is finally going to give a licence to a second national telephone operator - or SNO.
Why should we care – this is after all – an Internet program and not a phone program? Well the reason we should care is that an SNO will offer competition against the existing fixed line monopoly – this means that the availability of Internet bandwidth should increase, and prices should come down.
Broadband Internet access is cheaper in other countries where there is competition.
Who knows . . . . soon we might even have real broadband and affordable prices.
And if you are asking “why do you need broadband Internet access?” – you would certainly benefit from it if you wanted to download maps from an interesting site called www.themaps.co.za.
A listener by the name of Peter Slingsby suggested that I mention this site for travellers intending to spend some time in the Cape over the festive season. The site has many tourist oriented maps of the region – the free maps appear to concentrate on the hiker type of user – there are maps of Cape Point, Kirstenbosch, the Sevilla Rock Art Trail and others.
I have not had an in depth scout around the site – but if you are the outdoors type and plan on spending some time in the Western Cape – you will do well to look at www.themaps.co.za
Another tip sent on by a listener comes from Paul Janisch at EagleFord where they are now auctioning cars online. The very first car to go under the auctioneers mouse button went for R99 500 even though the recommended retail price was almost seventeen thousand rand more – sounds like a bargain to me.
At the next online auction – which opens on Wednesday – four vehicles – two new and two used will be up for grabs. Personally I think that if you know what vehicles should cost, you can score a bargain with an online auction. If you are interested, check out the site at www.eagleford.co.za.
And so we wrap up today’s edition of cybersurf, if you would like to read the script for the program, please go to www.cybersurf.blogspot.com – one more time www.cybersurf.blogspot.com - thanks for listening, next week, same time, same place till then . . . . . remember to keep on surfing.
