Will Sentech’s MyWireless service survive?

Sentech is allready begging for money from gubberment, so its not a question of "will they survive?", its a question of "do they know how to run a business?" - making all the wrong decisions - clearly they can't!.
 
Sentech == Foobar

i'm personally going Adsl when i can do that.
 
I will simply never go with Sentech, easy as that.
 
As much as we need competition in this country, I'm really looking forward to the demise of Sentech.

I was a loyal subscriber for 2 years and they always made it felt like they were doing you a huge favour by "letting" you sign a contract with them.

The service is shocking, the network is pathetic, the uptime is dismal, blah blah blah.

I gave you too much money Sentech. For that, I say go **** yourselves.
 
Also, during the last 2 years, Telkom has cut it's leased line circuit costs significantly, this cost have filtered down for the ADSL users but not for the wireless companies like iBurst and Sentech.

R500 for 1gb on Sentech's flexi package? No thank you, I'd rather have a more mobile (and faster connection) via my cellphone.

Or R170 odd for 1gb on iBurst? No thanks, I'd rather spring for ADSL and get almost 3 gb out of that baby instead of the 1gb
 
Watch this space

:cool: Will Sentechs MyWireless survive?

Watch this space!
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I doubt! I think this is the end for sentech's broadband department.... they're shooting themselves in the foot here!

.....and once again... they are pissing the high-end users off, more often than not, the high-end user is also a user with a lot of power when it comes to referrals.

I.E. When anyone in my family, or most of my friends, want to buy broadband, they'll ask me which is the best. I'm pissed off at sentech now, so obviously I won't recommend them. (and i might add something like "buy anything, just don't buy sentech")

Technically it is probably at their best interest to keep the high-end users happy (sure I know it costs a lot of money), but a happy high-end user will recommend an exponential amount of people to sign up.

...then again... even if this doesn't work, I can garuantee you that this never came up in meetings before they decided to just backstab ALL their power users.

whatever... I've wasted enough time typing about this now... they don't need this attention.
 
Bye Bye Sentech

I started when Sentech launched, hung on when the service got bad, upgraded to a 256 package when the surfing speed slowed down, even stayed within my limits when softcap was introduced.

If Sentech goes ahead with cancellations of the classic package they will be loosing this customer as well:mad:
 
All this ****e can be drawn back to Telkom's entrenched and protected hold on bandwidth pricing...
 
All this can rather be drawn back to greed...
There is an unwritten rule by which the broadband market plays which states that you will not ask less than your competitor. Vodacom, MTN and Cell-C all agreed to keep their data rates at R50/MB and to then gradually reduce them to R40/MB. Then they all dropped their rates to R2/MB in the space of a month or two as if discussed in some closed meeting. Now they reduce their bundle rates to 40c and Virgin enters the picture at 50c and in response IBurst reduce their 1G to R389 but only if you sign into a 24-month contract while still ripping off their 200MB subscribers with exorbitant pricing and much less coverage and mobility. Where is competition in this picture? :confused:
With the company already struggling to compete effectively with the other broadband providers Sentech may just find themselves reliant on Government funding for a countrywide broadband rollout to resuscitate their ailing MyWireless service.
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I really hope they don't get this, why should tax money be wasted again to fix someones skrewup? I would rather see them sink right down to the bottom. They are not a competitor, but are in fact the most expensive.
AcidRaZor said:
Also, during the last 2 years, Telkom has cut it's leased line circuit costs significantly, this cost have filtered down for the ADSL users but not for the wireless companies like iBurst and Sentech.

R500 for 1gb on Sentech's flexi package? No thank you, I'd rather have a more mobile (and faster connection) via my cellphone.

Or R170 odd for 1gb on iBurst? No thanks, I'd rather spring for ADSL and get almost 3 gb out of that baby instead of the 1gb
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But add to that the cost of the line if you don't have one and the cost of the adsl portion of the line plus the installation cost and the 1G on IBurst suddenly becomes a bargain where you can get 21GB if you use it wisely. Show me a complete adsl package to match that you can actually get installed in less than 3 months let alone 48 hours.
IBurst = best broadband for now... if you can get coverage. :(
jacauc said:
I doubt! I think this is the end for sentech's broadband department.... they're shooting themselves in the foot here!

.....and once again... they are pissing the high-end users off, more often than not, the high-end user is also a user with a lot of power when it comes to referrals.

I.E. When anyone in my family, or most of my friends, want to buy broadband, they'll ask me which is the best. I'm pissed off at sentech now, so obviously I won't recommend them. (and i might add something like "buy anything, just don't buy sentech")

Technically it is probably at their best interest to keep the high-end users happy (sure I know it costs a lot of money), but a happy high-end user will recommend an exponential amount of people to sign up.

...then again... even if this doesn't work, I can garuantee you that this never came up in meetings before they decided to just backstab ALL their power users.

whatever... I've wasted enough time typing about this now... they don't need this attention.
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Yup, convinced someone to not get a phone line installed for the occasional browsing for school projects and such, but to rather use the cell phone. When the time comes I will convince them to use Virgin as they don't need the premium Vodacom or MTN speed and in the end it would be better for us all and it will force the other networks to take a second look at their rip-off prices. And add to the list the fact that high end users will even pay to warn people and see the demise of a company that screws us over. :D A word to Sentech: Go **** yourself as you only overcharge for an inferior service. I can't wait for your demise. :mad:
 
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Yup, convinced someone to not get a phone line installed for the occasional browsing for school projects and such, but to rather use the cell phone. When the time comes I will convince them to use Virgin as they don't need the premium Vodacom or MTN speed and in the end it would be better for us all and it will force the other networks to take a second look at their rip-off prices. And add to the list the fact that high end users will even pay to warn people and see the demise of a company that screws us over. A word to Sentech: Go **** yourself as you only overcharge for an inferior service. I can't wait for your demise.
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Exactly! Couldn't agree more! They wanna play ball?...Let's play!

Muuuaaahahahahaha :D
 
hypn said:
I started when Sentech launched, hung on when the service got bad, upgraded to a 256 package when the surfing speed slowed down, even stayed within my limits when softcap was introduced.

If Sentech goes ahead with cancellations of the classic package they will be loosing this customer as well:mad:
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Same story here. All I can say is welcome to life after death :D btw, strange how some people think getting ADSL is as easy as picking up the phone :rolleyes:
 
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Just to maybe add some light although I am right out of it now and am not defending anyone here.
They are currently experimenting and testing a whole new package and system which is very much faster than anything they have at the moment.
Now although the results look good and although the system is capped like WBS and Telkom, the offering in comparison to the other 2 is quite competitive and possibly cheaper in some cases.
Up to now, the company has been carrying its clients in antisipation of the SAT3 bandwidth coming available to all at very much lower prices but the powers that be, are just dragging their heels for ever and ever.
This puts MyWi in a situation that it can no longer wait and loose all this money while the others get the clients even though they are capped and in some cases slower.
The problem is, if they follow the same marketing stratergy utilizing the same people, then the rollout can only spell disaster.
My 2c.
 
Currently, MyWireless is the slowest "broadband" offering out of all the competitors. They are also the most expensive with the Flexi packages. No matter what amazing new package is being tested, they are loosing their customer base for more mobile and faster offerings. I dont see why someone would want to come back if Sentech can only match the competitors. It also looks like WBS is not capped on the 1GB+ packages, although I dont have iburst to confirm this.
 
JayT: All packages except the i-Go ones are softcapped and you get additional bandwidth at 64kbps after reaching your cap. But there are also rumours that if you act fast enough with a good signal you can download 10GB or more on a 1 or 2 GB package before they see you reached your cap and switch the softcap on for your account. This all is enough for me to switch over to them it drops to R300 without a contract and see what kind of signal I can get out of them.

ProAsm: Even if they have something good up their sleeves I can't see it beating any of the other offerings hands down. They can't even provide good speeds with R6000 worth of equipment. If they want to capture any market share they will have to adsl prices without any connection fees for their services and I don't see that happening. They have simply screwed over too many users to just offer them comparable service at more or less the same price.
 
Prometheus: I have been soft-capped before on Iburst while I was busy downloading something.. but im shure I got a bit over my 3 gigs before I got capped. But it seems you dont have to reconect before being capped, well If you did i could almost have uncapped internet.

But I have heard of people doing this, but 10gigs, I dont know...
What might happen though is that you et left totally uncapped. NOw this doesnt happen often at all, but last month I had the "priviledge" of this.. it was great. It has happened to my friend too, but this was the only time in over a year that it ever happened.
 
Well, exactly why I say rumours and most of them are on the first few days of the month. On a very good download speed of 1mbps you can download 450MB in an hour. So you can download up to a multiple of 450MB for every hour that they don't check your account. The best thing to do if you have just reached your cap is to download like mad while you are still uncapped and maybe you can set a new record. :D
 
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