UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER
South African Internet Connectivity, Ver. 2, 12/26/94

South African Internet Connectivity, Ver. 2, 12/26/94

       
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            INTERNET CONNECTIVITY IN SOUTH AFRICA

                 ** New in this issue: **

            Active Systems, Stellenbosch
            Commercial Internet Services, CSIR, Pretoria
            SANGONeT, Johannesburg
            Western Cape Schools Network, Cape Town
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Date:           Mon 26 December 1994

Version:        2.0

Maintainer:     Carsten Knoch (carsten@julia.com)

Thanks to:      Lucio de Re (lucio@proxima.alt.za)
                Johann Visagie (jvisagie@active.co.za)
                Anriette Esterhuysen (anriette@wn.apc.org)
                Stephen Marquard (scm@picasso.wcape.school.za)
                Dick Webb (dickwebb@cis.co.za)
                David Frankel (david@is.co.za)
                Deon Botha (deon@aztec.co.za)
                Chris Pinkham (chrisp@iaccess.za)
                Ken Wang (ken@iba.co.za)
                Anthony Gerada (anthony@pix.za)


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CONTENTS:


1           Introduction and Disclaimer
2           Brief Description of Facilities Offered By Providers
3           Alphabetical Listing of Access Providers & Their Services
4           Non-Commercial Access Providers
Appendix A  Persons/Organisations Approached
Appendix B  How to get in touch with me for future inclusion
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1. INTRODUCTION AND DISCLAIMER

This fact sheet is intended to give the prospective Internet user in South Africa as broad an overview of connection options as possible. A survey has been conducted to establish who the players in the field are, and the answers are used for the information presented here. The fact sheet purports to represent all connectivity in South Africa, but by necessity mainly reflects the competing services of commercial Internet providers. I would welcome contributions from the non-commercial providers who aren't represented.

The purpose is not one of advertising the services of the one provider over another; although I am a user of one provider's services, I make no claims on that access provider's behalf, and neither am I interested in convincing anyone of which service to use. If this is an advertising forum, it should provide equal advertising space to all providers.

All opinions expressed in the introductory parts (and I'll try and keep those to a minimum) are entirely my own, and neither my access provider nor any other entity on the Internet are implicated by them. All opinions expressed in the individual entries are verbatim those of the access providers. I reserve the right to edit contributions for brevity and clarity, and make no claims towards accuracy in the information presented here.

2. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF FACILITIES OFFERED BY PROVIDERS

The questionnaire was conducted via email. Names and addresses of access provider companies and organisations were obtained by word of mouth. Apologies to those who were left out: please email me immediately to rectify this situation (see Appendix B). The presentation of the individual providers' service sections are in almost all cases in their own words, taken literally from the questionnaire.

The most commonly offered services available from South African Internet access providers are as follows:

a. UUCP Offline Mail and News

Using various adaptations of the Unix-to-Unix-Copy program (UUCP), users' personal computers or workstations make brief dialup connections to a "smarthost" where they drop off and collect mail and Usenet news queued for this purpose on either machine. The charges are normally minimal, while the quality of service is more often than not outstanding. This does not provide live connectivity to the Internet, but appears to be the solution of choice to those individuals and organisations whose funds are limited.

b. Dial-Up Terminal Connectivity

Users use their personal computers to dial a terminal server, dial-up router, or Unix workstation, and use a terminal emu- lation program (such as Panther, QModem, Procomm etc.) to obtain access either to a simple telnet shell or a Unix shell on the provider's machine. This gives live access to the Inter- net, while it is limited to text mode normally. Depending on the setup and negotiations with the access provider, users can access email, telnet, ftp, Usenet newsreaders, etc.

c. Dial-Up IP Connectivity

This consists of the user using special software on his or her personal computer to attach it to a port on the access provider's side using an IP-based protocol such as SL/IP or PPP (Serial Line Internet Protocol and Point To Point Protocol). This enables users to utilise their connection time to the fullest (by having multiple sessions at once). The software is readily available for both the MS-DOS and MS Windows platforms.

c.1. POP Mail or other Email Facilities for Dial-Up IP

This enables the user to have the provider's machine store email for him or her until the next SL/IP or PPP connection is made. (POP = Post Office Protocol.)

d. Voice Grade Dedicated Links

For dedicated, permanent connectivity to the Internet (either for corporate or home use), this is the most affordable option. The phone company (Telkom SA Ltd.) provides the user with a permanent circuit telephone lines of the same quality as a voice line. The Internet Protocol (IP) is put over this, often into a PC-based router on the client's side, and a port/router on the side of the provider. A lot of technical know-how is needed to maintain such a link, but the benefits can be great.

e. Digital ("Diginet") 64kbps (or greater) Dedicated Links

The phone company (Telkom SA Ltd.) provides the user with a high-quality digital line, connected to both the provider's and the user's facilities. These lines provide the highest throughput and stability. This would be the choice for si- tuations in which either a lot of users are required to make use of the link at the same time, or where large bandwidth and great network stability are required for other reasons.

f. Other Services

Several access providers mentioned additional services that they provide. I will mention these in the alphabetical section.

3. ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF INTERNET ACCESS PROVIDERS AND THEIR SERVICES

ACTIVE ACCESS

    CONTACT INFO:
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        Name of company (incl. any appreviations):

        Active Systems (Active Access CC.)

        Postal address:

            Active Systems
            P.O. Box 2282
            Stellenbosch
            7599

        Telephone number: (021) 887-1822

        Fax number: (021) 887-1829

        Email address for information / contact: info@active.co.za

        Technical and sales people in charge (incl. email address):

            Johann Visagie 
            Franscois Jooste 
        
        World Wide Web Homepage:  URL: http://www.active.co.za
        
    SERVICES PROVIDED:
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        Dial-Up Terminal Connectivity (terminal server)
        Dial-Up Shell Account (Unix or custom software)
        Dial-Up IP Connectivity (SL/IP, PPP)
        POPMail (or other mail for dial-up IP)
        Voice-grade leased line connectivity
  
ADDITIONAL SERVICES:
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We offer our users the facility to put up their own personal non-commercial home pages without any extra charge involved. We offer companies the facility of putting up commercial home pages at a small extra fee per month - we would then also provide some help in setting up the pages.

We don't currently have a gopher server running, as we have no need for one. Again, if a customer wanted to put up information via gopher, that could be arranged.

Hardware, software and networking sales, service and support.

PRICING:
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        Charges exclude Telkom rates:

        Shell dial-up account for private use:      R 50,00 / month
        *plus* usage fee of:                        R  2,00 / hour

        SLIP dial-up account:                       R 60,00 / month
        *plus* usage fee of:                        R  2,00 / hour

A SLIP account includes a shell login on our Unix machine, so a SLIP user would have all the facilities of a shell dial-up user, and more.

Please note that our dial-up lines are all on the (021) code, and are within local call distance from anywhere in the greater Cape Town area.

For the pricing of servises not listed here, prospective customers should contact us directly.

ORGANISATION AIMS AND FOCUS:
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Our aim is to provide reliable Internet connectivity to private users and small businesses. We might still be small, but even in that we can offer our clients certain advantages. Not only can we guarantee personal attention, but we can also create individual packages tailored to a client's needs.

    EQUIPMENT:
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        1 x 486-based Unix box
        1 x 486 Windows-based system for demonstration purposes.
        4 x 14.4 kbps modems
        28.8 kbps analogue leased line to the Internet

        We are currently in the process of installing new equipment, including:

        A second Unix server
        More modem lines (two more in the immediate future - more to follow) 
        Upgrading current modems to 28.8 kbps
        Multiple online CD-ROMs with shareware available for download.

        Upgrading the speed of our Internet link is also envisioned in the near future.

COMMENTS:
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Unlike most Internet providers, we're not businessmen. We're just a couple of net.addicts who decided to offer others the advantage of our knowledge and experience in this field to others. We believe in the Interenet as a friendly, informal community, and we see our customers as our friends within this community. As such we urge our clients to help us expand our service to them by giving us any possible comments and feedback. We'd like to offer the informal, friendly (yet efficient!) level of service modem users are used to from bulletin board systems, and not the corporate suit-and-tie service they might have experienced from Internet providers to date! :-)

AZTEC (INFORMATION MANAGEMENT)

    CONTACT INFO:
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    Name of company (incl. any abbreviations):

        Aztec Information Management (Pty) Ltd

        trading as Aztec

    Postal address:

        P.O. Box 6844, ROGGEBAAI, 8012

    Telephone number:

        (021) 419-2690 and (011) 402-3322

    Fax number:

        (021) 25-1254 and (011) 402-8334

    Email address for information / contact:

        info@aztec.co.za or info@inca.za

    Technical and Sales people in charge (incl. email address):

        Deon Botha 
        Jean Ramsay 

    World Wide Web home page:

        URL: http://www.aztec.co.za

    Gopher page:

        none

    SERVICES PROVIDED:
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        UUCP Mail Feed
        Dial-Up Terminal Connectivity (terminal server)
        Dial-Up Shell Account (Unix or custom software)
        Dial-Up IP Connectivity (SL/IP, PPP)
        POPMail (or other mail for dial-up IP)
        Voice-grade leased line connectivity
        Diginet leased line connectivity
        Other (please specify)

    ADDITIONAL SERVICES:
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        1. X.400 international gateway for EDI etc.

        2. WWW production and maintenence services, including  HTML programming, image scanning,
           publishing of pages and other related serices.

        3. Internet related consulting and integration services.

        4. Sales and integration of general computer and communications equipment.

    PRICING:
    -------

        Please note that charges do not include the costs of communication with Aztec.

        Individual Account (UNIX Shell)
        Basic Monthly Charge:                   R50.00 
        Hourly Port Charge:                     R2.00 
                            (measured in minutes)

        UUCP Account (Batched mail and news feed)
        Corporate Basic Monthly Charge:         R200.00 
        Individual Basic Monthly Charge:        R20.00
        Hourly Port Charge:                     R2.00  
                            (measured in minutes)

        SLIP or PPP direct IP Account
        Basic Monthly Charge:                   R120.00 
Included in the IP account is a shell account for purposes of mail delivery via the Post Office Protocol. Additional accounts can use the same serial IP link and are charged at R20.00 per month.

If the IP accounts are used for interactive login purposes on our SUN server via telnet or rlogin, connect time will be charged as for the individual shell accounts.

The first month or part thereof is free of charge in terms of the basic charge. You get billed at the end of the month for that month's port usage and the next month's basic charge.

We request Public Access users to restrict their disk usage on our system to 2Mb on a daily balance, audited at 05:55 every morning. A small charge of 50c per Megabyte is levied after that.

ORGANISATION AIMS AND FOCUS:
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Aztec's stated goal is to provide the highest levels of availability and functionality in the public access Internet business. As such we have invested in high performance terminal servers, routers and SPARC servers. Our success and growth over the last 8 months is a mani- festation of our abilities and is attracting the business user as well as the casual user. Unlike other providers, our modem phones are never engaged. We work on having at least 20% spare capacity at any given moment in time and endeavor to be very responsive to feed-back and reported problems from our users.

    EQUIPMENT:
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1x SPARC10, SunOS 4.1.3, dual-ethernet, 2Gb disk 2x Livingston PM IIe async routers (capable of 60 modems) 26x V.32bis USRobotics Courier modems (upgradeable to ITU V.34) 4x V.34/V.Fc/V.Terbo USRobotics Courier (ITU standard) modems 1x 8 port X.25 PAD 1x 48Kb X.400 gateway Coming soon:
Another Sparc10, 4 more Livingston async routers (Durban, PE, Pretoria and Potchefstroom). Modems are being added as fast as Telkom can provide phone circuits. We use CISCO routers.

COMMENTS:
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Although international connectivity is a great advantage of Internet connectivity, we are actively endeavoring to add local value and to stimulate the local services. An example of this is the first commercial X.400 <-> Internet gateway in South Africa which will be used by several of our customers (including Old Mutual) who have standardised on X.400 for messaging, but require Internet connectivity as well.

We are the oldest and best established access provider in South Africa and plan to remain ahead based on quality of service.

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COMMERCIAL INTERNET SERVICES (CIS)

    CONTACT INFO:
    ------------

        Name of company (incl. any abbreviations):

            COMMERCIAL INTERNET SERVICES (CIS)

        Postal address:

            P.O. Box 75885
            Lynnwood Rodge
            Pretoria
            0040

        Telephone number (please supply area code):

            (012) 841-2892

        Fax number (please supply area code):

            (012) 841-3604

        Email address for information / contact:

            info@cis.co.za

        Technical person in charge (incl. email address):

            Jorn Haas (info@cis.co.za)

        Sales person in charge (incl. email address):

            Merryl Hastie (merryl@cis.co.za)
            or
            mhastie@infocomp.csir.co.za


    SERVICES PROVIDED:
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        Dial-Up Terminal Connectivity (terminal server)
        Dial-Up IP Connectivity (SL/IP, PPP)
        POPMail (or other mail for dial-up IP)
        Voice-grade leased line connectivity
        Diginet leased line connectivity


    ADDITIONAL SERVICES:
    -------------------

        Training courses 3 levels:

        Introductory Course for Newbies
        Advanced Course
        Customised Course for Companies
        Security services including firewalling and CSIR developed secure routers
        Franchise opportunities for prospective service providers throughout South Africa.


    PRICING:
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        Dial-Up Asynch          R35/month, only email and attach files, no other features 
        Dial-Up IP              R100/month, 5 hours free and R5/hour
        Dial-Up IP              R300/month, 60 hours free and R5/hour 
        Coprporate Dial-Up IP   R600/month, 60 hours free and R5/hour
        Leased line 19.2 kbps   R3250/month (usage surcharges apply)
        Diginet 64 kbps         R5750/month (usage surcharges apply)

        Courses:                R575/course, including hands-on, 
                                software, documentation, and 1 year
                                subscription to Intelligence magazine

        Customised Courses require quotation.

        Secure routers          quotation on request


    ORGANISATION AIMS AND FOCUS:
    ---------------------------

        To provice users with efficient means to access the Internet.
        Target at power users and corporates.


    EQUIPMENT:
    ---------

        Multiple Unix machines. Points of presence in all major centres with expansion in other areas
        in the 1st quarter of 1995.

        Pretoria         8 modems + leased line connectivity
        Johannesburg    16 modems + leased line connectivity
        Cape Town        5 modems + leased line connectivity
        Port Elisabeth   8 modems + leased line connectivity
        Durban           8 modems + leased line connectivity
        Nelspruit        4 modems + leased line connectivity

COMMENTS:
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The CSRI'S establishment in the providing of Internet POPs country-wide is part of an expansion program for the implementation of NIBS, the National Integrated Business Service, being done in conjunction with SACOB and other organisations. Internet connectivity will form part of this service.

In addition, the CSIR represents Compuserve in South Africa and sourrounding countries and already has representation in Zimbabwe, Mauritius and Botswana.

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DYNAGEN

    CONTACT INFO:
    ------------

    Name of company (incl. any abbreviations):

        Dynagen

    Postal address:

        PO Box 228
        Noordhoek
        7985

    Telephone number:

        021- 7891252

    Fax number:

        021- 4182613

    Email address for information / contact:

        sysop@eugene.dynagen.co.za

    Technical person in charge (incl. email address):

        Eugene L Griessel  

    Sales person in charge (incl. email address):

        Eugene L Griessel  

    SERVICES PROVIDED:
    -----------------

        UUCP Mail Feed 

        We are a pure e-mail service.  We do however offer 
        relayed forums from Internet by arrangement.  

    PRICING:
    -------

        Business services by quote.

        Personal E-mail: R12 connection fee and no monthly charge except for NetNews downloads.

    ORGANISATION AIMS AND FOCUS:
    ---------------------------

        To provide E-Mail affordable connectivity for businesses and to stimulate private use of E-
        Mail in the Cape Town area.

    EQUIPMENT:
    ---------

        9600 baud dial-in modems, 486 running under Xenix

    COMMENTS:
    --------
We are distributing Pegasus as an E-mail reader and Waffle as an interface to Unix's uucp to run on standalone DOS PCs. It allows mail to be composed and read off-line and supports multiple users on a single PC, but with no privacy.

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INTERNET AFRICA

    CONTACT INFO:
    ------------

    Name of Company (including any abbreviations):

        Internet Africa
 
    Postal address:
 
        PO Box 44633, Claremont 7735, South Africa 
 
    Telephone number:

        0800 020003    (within South Africa)
        +27 21 6834370 (from outside South Africa) 
 
    Fax number:

        (021) 6834695  (within South Africa)
        +27 21 6834695 (from outside South Africa) 
 
    Email address for information / contact:
 
        info@ticsa.com, or info@iaccess.za
 
    Technical person in charge (incl. email address):

        Mark Murray 
        Colin Pinkham 
        Steve Davies  
 
    Sales person in charge (incl. email address):

        Please use info@iaccess.za address
 
 
    SERVICES PROVIDED:
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        UUCP Mail Feed
        Dial-Up Terminal Connectivity (terminal server)
        Dial-Up Shell Account (Unix or custom software)
        Dial-Up IP Connectivity (SL/IP, PPP)
        POPMail (or other mail for dial-up IP)
        Voice-grade leased line connectivity
        Diginet leased line connectivity
 
        Other:
        Access via Frame Relay and X.25 networks
 
    ADDITIONAL SERVICES:
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Internet Africa offers consulting services to its clients relating to its Internet service, including work in the fields of routing, nameservice and security, among others.

Clients of Internet Africa offer information services via the World Wide Web; contact names will be supplied on request.

Internet Africa providers service to other, independent service providers.

PRICING:
-------

Dialup users pay a small monthly rate with an additional hourly rate.

Permanently connected customers pay a small monthly rate which includes a traffic allowance. Additional imported traffic is charged either at a domestic or an international rate.

Details are available on request.

ORGANISATION AIMS AND FOCUS:
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Internet Africa represents the combined focus of its shareholders, namely The Internetworking Company of Southern Africa and Compustat. TICSA focussed mainly on permanently connected corporate clients while Compustat had a national presence in the dialup market.

The new organisation aims to expand rapidly the Internet market in the whole region of Southern Africa, including assisting with and deploying services in neighbouring countries. Internet Africa believes that, in order to be successful, the Internet should become accessible to non-technical computer users.

EQUIPMENT:
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        (Numbers are omitted as the figures will be out of date as 
        soon as they are typed due to the constant acquisition of new lines and equipment).
        o 486 and Sparc based Unix systems
        o Telephone lines countrywide, constantly being installed
        o Multiple dialup IP routers/terminal-servers
        o Cisco and other brand routers
        o 128K link to the international Internet via Alternet
 
COMMENTS:
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Internet Africa believes that the market for Internet service in this region is potentially very large, and consequently feels that the various Internet Service Providers in South Africa should engage in a spirit of healthy, friendly competition to make the Internet in South Africa the focal point for regional communication.

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THE INTERNET SOLUTION

    CONTACT INFO:
    ------------

    Name of company (incl. any abbreviations):

        The Internet Solution (Pty) Ltd.

    Postal address:

        PO Box 273, Ferndale, 2160, South Africa

    Telephone number:

        011-789-6071
    
    Fax number:

        011-789-3851

    Email address for information / contact:

        info@is.co.za

    Technical person in charge (incl. email address):

        Andras Salamon 

    Sales person in charge (incl. email address):

        Ronnie Apteker 
    
    World Wide Web Home Page:
    
        URL: http://www.is.co.za

    Gopher page:

        is.co.za

    SERVICES PROVIDED:
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        UUCP Mail Feed
        Dial-Up Terminal Connectivity (terminal server)
        Dial-Up Shell Account (Unix or custom software)
        Dial-Up IP Connectivity (SL/IP, PPP)
        POPMail (or other mail for dial-up IP)
        Voice-grade leased line connectivity
        Diginet leased line connectivity

    ADDITIONAL SERVICES: 
    -------------------
        WWW home page setup & maintenance
        Security consultation
        WWW server space
        Network consulting 

    PRICING:
    -------

        The Internet Solution charges per month only (no charges based on time or traffic). 

    ORGANISATION AIMS AND FOCUS:
    ---------------------------

        The Internet Solution's primary focus lies with Diginet leased line connectivity.

    EQUIPMENT:
    ---------

        64 kbps fibre optic link directly to Sprint in the USA
        8 UNIX boxes
        11 Routers (Cisco & Wellfleet)
        45 modems (US Robotics Couriers)

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PIX (PROXIMA INFORMATION X-CHANGE CC.)

    CONTACT INFO:
    ------------

    Name of company (incl. any abbreviations):
        
        PiX (Proxima Information X-change cc)

    Postal address:

        P.O. Box 3036
        Northcliff
        2115
        South Africa

    Telephone number:

        (011) 476-2007
        (011) 678-0097

    Fax number:

        (011) 678-5769
 
    Email address for information / contact:

        Anthony Gerada  or
        info@pix.za

    Technical person in charge (incl. email address):

        Lucio de Re 

    Sales person in charge (incl. email address):
        
        Anthony Gerada 

    World Wide Web Home Page:

        URL: http://www.pix.za

    Gopher Page:

        gopher.pix.za


    SERVICES PROVIDED:
    -----------------

        UUCP Mail Feed
        Dial-Up Terminal Connectivity (terminal server)
        Dial-Up IP Connectivity (SL/IP, PPP)
        POPMail (or other mail for dial-up IP)
        Voice-grade leased line connectivity
        Diginet leased line connectivity

    ADDITIONAL SERVICES:
    -------------------

        We have WWW and Gopher servers running on an experimental basis. 

    PRICING:
    -------

        Dial up SLIP/PPP/Telnet = R3 per hour with R12 per month minimum and R24 (one-time)
        registration fee.
        Dial up UUCP = R1.20 per hour, 0.5 (half a cent) per kb of traffic and R30 per month
        subscription fee.
        All eased line connectivity is individually negotiated.
        Details available on application.

    ORGANISATION AIMS AND FOCUS:
    ---------------------------

        PiX aims to serve from the casual-dial up users right up to permanent leased lines.

    EQUIPMENT:
    ---------

        We have four UNIX boxes, a 64Kbps Diginet line, 4 UUCP dial-up ports and 10 x SLIP/PPP ports
        on a Livingston Portmaster.

4. NON-COMMERCIAL ACCESS PROVIDERS
There are several non-commercial access providers in South Africa that I am aware of. Again, if I have overlooked information, please mail me to rectify this.

a. SANGONeT (South African Non-Governmental Organisations Network)

    CONTACT INFO:
    ------------

        Name of organisation (incl. any abbreviations):

            SANGONeT - Southern African Nongovernmental Organisation Network

        Postal address:

            P.O. Box 31
            Johannesburg
            2000
            South Africa

        Telephone number:

            011 838-6943/4

        Fax number:

            011 492-1058

        Email address for information / contact:

            anriette@wn.apc.org

        Technical and sales person in charge (incl. email address):

            Fatima Bhyat 
            Anriette Esterhuysen 
            
        World Wide Web Homepage:
        
            URL: http://wn.apc.org
            
        Gopher page:
        
            gopher: wn.apc.org


    SERVICES PROVIDED:
    -----------------

        UUCP Mail Feed
        Dial-Up Terminal Connectivity (terminal server)
        Dial-Up Shell Account (Unix or custom software)
        Dial-Up IP Connectivity (SL/IP, PPP)
        POPMail (or other mail for dial-up IP)
ADDITIONAL SERVICES:
-------------------

Fidonet node and Fidonet Internet gateway.

We offer training in using the Internet, general introductory training in telecommunications, and provide information research services (processing requests for information). SANGONeT users can set up their own gopher and WWW information for a minor fee.

Subscribtion includes support (toll free numbers) and training.

    PRICING:
    -------

        Start up fee: R200

        Subscription: R50 per month for NGOs
                      R75 per month for public sector organisations
                      R100 per month for for-profit organisations

        Online time:  R10 an hour after the first hour

        Internet training:  R120 per hour

        Information searches:  R120 per hour

        Setting up an organisational gopher:    R200
        Storage:    R5 a mb after the first 10 mb

        Fidonet gateway: starting at R100 per month admin and support (negotiated according to number
        of users, polls, etc.) Volume:   R0,05 a kb


    ORGANISATION AIMS AND FOCUS:
    ---------------------------
SANGONeT's purpose is to provide affordable electronic communication, information and networking services to people and organisations working in development and social change in South Africa.

Our primary focus is on meeting the information and communication needs of nongovermental and community-based organisations. SANGONeT is the South African member of the APC - Association for Progressive Communications - and is therefore the only authorised carrier of APC conferences in the country.

    EQUIPMENT:
    ---------

        Sun Sparcstation 2 (32MB RAM, 2 GIG Hard Disk)
        Cisco 2500 Router connected to Uninet (64K Diginet link)
        5 x 14400 V42 V42bis MNP5 Modems
        X.25 Access through SUN X.25 software and X.25 NTU

b. UNINET-ZA (Universities Network)

The oldest IP-based network in the country, this reaches almost all South African universities. As I have had no comment from the Uninet in response to my questionnaire, I can merely mention their existence here. The Uninet, according to their own materials, provide access to the Internet for all research and educational purposes, while also fostering private, not-for-gain connectivity. It is in almost all cases appropriate to approach the closest university.

Here, please also refer to the FAQ by Jacot Guillardmot, posted regularly in za.net.misc.

Contact information: postmaster@frd.ac.za
uninet@frd.ac.za

d. Schools Networking

There are several well-organised schools networks in South Africa. So far, the Western Cape Schools Network is the only one that has asked to be featured as a non-commercial provider.

WESTERN CAPE SCHOOLS NETWORK

    CONTACT INFO:
    ------------

        Name of company (incl. any abbreviations):

            Western Cape Schools Network

        Postal address:

            c/o Pinelands High School 
            Pinelands 
            7405 
            Cape Town

        Telephone number:

            021-531-7410 
        
        Fax number:

            021-531-7415

        Email address for information / contact:

            Jocelyn Wrensch  
            (chairperson)
            or 

        Technical person in charge (incl. email address):

            Stephen Marquard 

        Sales person in charge (incl. email address):

            N/A
        
    SERVICES PROVIDED:
    -----------------

        UUCP Mail Feed
        UUCP News Feed
        Additional email/news services such as gatewayed 
        mailing lists
        Training & technical support

        From 1995, dial-up terminal access, possibly SLIP/PPP

    ORGANISATION AIMS AND FOCUS:
    ---------------------------

        Providing cost-effective Internet access to primary & secondary educational institutions and
        associated individuals in the Western Cape. 


    EQUIPMENT:
    ---------
    
        FreeBSD system 
        14.4kbps modem (2, possibly 3 from 1995, possibly 28.8kbps) 
        Internet access via Uninet (UCT)


APPENDIX A: PERSONS/ORGANISATIONS APPROACHED

chrisp@iaccess.za
david@is.co.za
ken@iba.co.za
oliver@cybernet.za
anthony@pix.za
aroussos@docnet.infolink.co.za
postmaster@infoline.csir.co.za
aris@mpd.co.za
deon@aztec.co.za
mje@olsa99.olivetti.za
anriette@wn.apc.org
mlawrie@apies.frd.ac.za
lucio@proxima.alt.za
dickwebb@cis.co.za
davies@infomail.infonet.com
jvisagie@active.co.za


APPENDIX B: HOW TO GET IN TOUCH WITH ME FOR FUTURE INCLUSION

Carsten Knoch

carsten@julia.com
carsten@myrtle.proxima.alt.za


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From: carsten@proxima.alt.za (Carsten Knoch)
Subject: South African Internet Connectivity, Ver. 2
Message-ID: [D1J70I.4HJ@proxima.alt.za]
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 17:24:10 GMT

Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar
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