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I got this off their faqs section in their site


What products is Neotel going to be offering?

Neotel plans to introduce a variety of voice and data services (including high-speed-Internet and true broadband access services) for individual consumers and SMMEs in South Africa. Neotel will focus on converged wireless services, offering voice and Internet access over a single device, thereby bringing convenience and simplicity in telecoms services. The converged high-speed Internet access and voice services are currently being piloted by Neotel, and will be commercially available in select areas of the major metros immediately following the completion of the pilot. Neotel is working towards rolling out true broadband services over various technologies, including wireless technologies such as WiMAX and wireline technologies such as DSL and fibre. Broadband services are targeted for introduction in phases over the year 2008
 
The ADSL lines from Neotel is quite a bit off still. They must first wait for the LLU process to be completed by Telkom. :(

Not much stopping them from providing ADSL accounts though.
 
Yeah thats been up on their site for as long as I can remember.
They'll edit the 2008 to 2010 at the end of the year ;)
 
Neotel plans to introduce a few services (including high-speed-Internet and half-truthful broadband access services) for individual consumers and SMMEs in the post 2015 South Africa. Neotel will try and focus on converged wireless services, attempt voice and Internet access over a single imaginary device, thereby bringing convenience and simplicity in telescums services. The converged high-speed Internet access and voice services are currently being thought out by Neotel, and could be available in select areas of the major metros long after the completion of the pilot. Neotel is working towards rolling out half-truthful broadband services over various degree of honesty technologies, including wireless ideas such as WiMAX and wireline technologies such as DSL and fibre. Broadband services are targeted for introduction in decades over year 2018
 
matrixweb said:
I got this off their faqs section in their site


What products is Neotel going to be offering?

Neotel plans to introduce a variety of voice and data services (including high-speed-Internet and true broadband access services) for individual consumers and SMMEs in South Africa. Neotel will focus on converged wireless services, offering voice and Internet access over a single device, thereby bringing convenience and simplicity in telecoms services. The converged high-speed Internet access and voice services are currently being piloted by Neotel, and will be commercially available in select areas of the major metros immediately following the completion of the pilot. Neotel is working towards rolling out true broadband services over various technologies, including wireless technologies such as WiMAX and wireline technologies such as DSL and fibre. Broadband services are targeted for introduction in phases over the year 2008
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The "high-speed-internet" refers to CDMA2000, the products they are currently launching. Then why is the lite packages throttled at 156kbps?? :confused: I will be happy with half the speed of 2.4 Mbps & 5Gig cap for R300.
 
rph72 said:
The "high-speed-internet" refers to CDMA2000, the products they are currently launching. Then why is the lite packages throttled at 156kbps?? :confused: I will be happy with half the speed of 2.4 Mbps & 5Gig cap for R300.
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Someone gave the technical answer to that in one of the other Neotel thread under News.

As far as I remember it was that the 156kb service isn't CDMA2000, but another variant of CDMA that goes over the same towers. It might save them spectrum (or something along those lines) not to use CDMA2000 for slower speeds. It apparently isn't actually throttled at all.

The speed isn't near 2.4Mbps though, they even only claim 300-700kbps, so that's about as low as you want ot go for high speed internet. The 156kb service is a dialup replacement.
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
The speed isn't near 2.4Mbps though, they even only claim 300-700kbps, so that's about as low as you want ot go for high speed internet. The 156kb service is a dialup replacement.
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Pretty much but its not all that different to dial up.
 
when they say 300-700kbps do they mean like on o 4mb line i download at 500kb/s? or they saying that there speed of the downlink is 300-700kbps?
 
matrixweb said:
when they say 300-700kbps do they mean like on o 4mb line i download at 500kb/s? or they saying that there speed of the downlink is 300-700kbps?
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They mean where your 4 meg line is 4096 this will be 300-700.
 
Haha, even at the theoretical max of 2.4mbps you wouldn't be getting 300KB. Well, just.. but still not quite. :p
 
Can't they setup there own orange boxes / exchanges along the miles of cable they are laying and then provide infrastructure from these mini-exchanges to residential areas. DSL is a much more stable technology in general. (Not the way Telkom manages it). LLU will in anycase take years to sort out in which time it would be better building your own exchanges.
Residential consumers will be sucking the hind t!t for some time still on DSL until Neotroll can make some money of the big companies.
 
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