Neotel consumer offering here in April

Well this is a good start...

Pity I'll be back in Durban by then and have to wait, hopefully not more than a few months though.
 
soft launch means not setting a launch date and without nationwide marketing. they just start selling the service to whomever knows about it.

I'm glad that they are finally entering the residential market.

Anybody here on their trial? What is the technology like? Voice quality? Reception during thunderstorms/wind/rain?
 
Neotel = Worlds biggest procrastinators!
I wanna see this happen...
Hopefully it will cause maybe then Telkom will increase my speed or cap or maybe both come August!
 
About time. How about releasing the pricing so I can decide if I'm going to switch

The responses are a bit worrying though. Are they scared of attracting customers cos their network is fragile?
 
aadil said:
About time. How about releasing the pricing so I can decide if I'm going to switch
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I'm switching anyway. I have long passed the point where I give a **** about how much it costs, as long as it is no longer Telkom.
 
  1. When will NeeTel provide an online coverage map for its CDMA2000 service? - if one's area is not covered then there is no point in considering NeeTel at this point in time.
  2. When will the pricing be announced? - if a soft-launch is going to start in April 2008, then why not release the pricing info now [i.e. April 2008]...?
  3. If the "High Speed Internet" service is going to average out between 300kbits/s..700kbits/s for downloads, what will the upload speeds be like, and how is 700kbits/s different from the "Basic Internet" version of NeeTel's service - considering that 700kbits/s is now a bit on the slow side?
For me, it basically comes down to:
Coverage+Price_Including_Cap+Latency+Upload_Speed+Reliability
before I will even consider NeeTel, and since NeeTel appears not to have involved any consumers [that any of us actually know] in its consumer trials, all of the above is completely unknown tending towards undefined in the NeeTel context.
 
These services will initially be ‘soft launched’ in Johannesburg and Pretoria in April with Cape Town and Durban to follow shortly afterwards. Coverage will be expanded to include other parts of the country as the company grows.
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:sick::sick::sick::sick:

Like they were supposed to launch first quarter of 2006 if I am not mistaken...
 
More progress by them, soft launch or not.

As bad as I want them, I can understand how much they had to slot into place before this point could come. Still, it's like the start of a boulder running downhill. Soon the pace will pick up, and things are going to get mighty interesting indeed.
 
aadil said:
The responses are a bit worrying though. Are they scared of attracting customers cos their network is fragile?
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i must agree.... seems they not really confident about how their network will handle customers.... softlaunch also means 'dont complain if it doesnt really work right yet' meaning by end of 2009 you'd probably only be able to actually run a business off their lines.... they really make me think of CellC when cell c launched, "its there but nobody takes it serious"...
 
It's all in the details Neotel, please can we have some?
What's that? Oh, the details will be released shortly?
Great, thanks. :-|
 
Any alternative is move in right direction.

Day I can call Telscums for the last time and cancel my subscription will be the day to remember.

Actually waiting on line for some incompetent numbnut is not an option I will send them register d letter cancellation.

lolies
 
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These services will initially be ‘soft launched’ in Johannesburg and Pretoria in April with Cape Town and Durban to follow shortly afterwards. Coverage will be expanded to include other parts of the country as the company grows.
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QFT?

mmmm see that PE & EL is left out once again.... BTW Prices/usage??

Still running along with kbps & Mbps :confused:

Neotel will provide two flavours of converged consumer services, namely a ‘High Speed Internet, Voice and SMS’ service and a ‘Basic Internet access, Voice and SMS’ offering. With the faster option, users can expect peak speeds of up to 3.1 Mbps with average throughputs of between 300 Kbps and 700 Kbps.
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So:
Neotel Telkom
300kbps = 36.62 KB/s | 384k = 48KB/s
700kbps = 85.45 KB/s | 512k = 64KB/s
3.1Mbps = 378.4 KB/s | 4mb = 512KB/s

Not too bad IMO... comapied to my 7KB/s speeds atleast now I can play BF2!!! :D

http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/data_transfer_rate

..othwerwise...

good news!! :D
 
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