<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f6fdc66d-f1de-4cde-a977-7928ae90ad5b/3E1616D1-CBE4-4001-B8D0-CE3FB2E7C7CC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Broadband/317.html" href="http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Broadband/317.html" style="font-size: 11px;">mybroadband.co.za</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Broadband/317.html"><FONT size="2">The 2007 Africa Competitiveness Report, which was released recently, places South Africa seventh on the list of African countries with the lowest broadband prices. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Broadband/317.html">even on the continent SA is not a leading figure. South Africa is ranked below countries like Morocco, Egypt, Madagascar, Senegal, Botswana and Mauritius which should cause alarm bells to ring.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Broadband/317.html">South Africa’s ADSL offerings are extremely expensive when compared to international standards.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Broadband/317.html"><FONT size="2">The fastest broadband offering in South Africa is Telkom’s DSL 4 Mbps service. This service is priced at R 675-00 per month and allows for a 3 GB monthly usage allowance which means the service costs R 56-25 per Mbps/GB.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Broadband/317.html"><FONT size="2">The average per Mbps/GB price for these three countries is R 0-71, 79 times less than the price in South Africa. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Broadband/317.html"><FONT size="2">The fact that South Africa’s incumbent operator’s premier broadband offering is over 7900% more expensive than countries like Morocco, Australia and the UK does not paint a positive picture.</FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3E1616D1-CBE4-4001-B8D0-CE3FB2E7C7CC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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