What Neotel will offer you before March next year

"Sorry...," said Rudolph Muller. "Neotel is late."

"They're just about to arrive," he teased. The crowd erupted with laughter.

Muller, who couldn't let an opportunity as good as this pass, went on: "Their arrival is imminent."
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LOL! What a card rpm is!
:D:D
 
Well it looks all good and well, but lets see when they deliver it to the public...
 
Again, nothing concrete. What we have instead is a 'quarter' launch date. But didnt we have that a year ago?

And yay for the dial up replacement service. Now my Gran can make a cup of tea while downloading her emails instead of watching an episode of Oprah...
 
Got to play with the Neotel phone, glorified - "cellphone" but none the less the line was clear and crisp. I was very impressed. Get a totally new number, area code still stay.
 
Now I wonder if Jo'burg includes the east/Ekuruleni?
 
Question: If they're using a wireless method, won't latency really suck for us gamers?
 
300 - 700 is gonna be a speed decrease for some people. And you probably right n1hilst, latency might be an issue
 
kris860911 said:
300 - 700 is gonna be a speed decrease for some people. And you probably right n1hilst, latency might be an issue
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True. I am not dropping from a 4mb line - I don't care how cheap they are. What I hope happens is that Telkom decrease the price of ADSL bandwidth and line rentals. If that happens Neotel has done enough for me.
 
From this press release:
Faster forward- and reverse-link speeds are achieved via the IS-856 Rev. A enhancements to 1xEV-DO. This leading-edge standard, as implemented in 1xEV-DO technology, produces peak data rates of 3.1 Mbps on the forward link and 1.8 Mbps on the reverse link with latency in the 30 mSec range, which vastly improves the performance of low-latency applications such as video telephony, voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and multiplayer games. Also, because 1xEV-DO Rev. A delivers bits faster, it supports higher system capacity and lower cost per packet.
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For me waiting on a ADSL line since Febr this year and now only looking @ getting one Febr 08 this just might be my ticket to "freedom". Although I'm sure latency will be a problem as with all wireless services.

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Gah... Apparently as per above it might yet still have a decent latency!! Good!!
 
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Nod said:
From this press release:
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I hope that it is true but with wireless I will believe it when I see it. I am always suspicious that the manufacturer tests this in a single room, 50 meters away from the base station with special signal boosting equipment and nobody else on the tower ;)

If Neotel oversubscribe some of their towers I can well see latency deteriorating.
 
Yup the only thing that will stop me running to NeoTel, are the latency issues. I have not yet heard of any wireless service to beat fixed line on latency. You often find th guys playing online with high pings running on some form of wireless. Pitty, I'll have to wait for their fixed line products, hopefully that will be before 2020.
 
pkid said:
True. I am not dropping from a 4mb line - I don't care how cheap they are. What I hope happens is that Telkom decrease the price of ADSL bandwidth and line rentals. If that happens Neotel has done enough for me.
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Are they talking download speed or line speed????? There is a HUGE difference. with 4M line-speed you still only download at +- 50kbps anyway.
 
Article said:
There will be value-adds, like e-mail, some enhanced voice services and basic content. Hay is adamant Neotel is not going to be a "content provider" a la Telkom Media or Do Broadband. Besides, Neotel has got enough to worry about! However, he believes that "content is going to drive the usage of services in the long term".
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This is why most people want internet....
They not in PE and now this.... :mad:
 
Glordit said:
This is why most people want internet....
They not in PE and now this.... :mad:
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It shouldn't be a problem if they don't provide content. They are providing a way to access content from all over the world. I don't see this as a negative, as they will have more focus on providing a stable network (hopefully).
 
Glordit said:
This is why most people want internet....
They not in PE and now this.... :mad:
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How is DoBroadband a content provider, anyway? TelkomMedia, yes; DoBroadband is, at most, a portal. They don't offer any content that you can't get if you're not a subscriber.
 
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