Century City Connect

**Johand** · 11-01-2012 12:00 PM

I see Century City Connect's website is up and running. They keep referring to "one of six ISPs" which will provide services. Does anybody have an idea of who the ISPs are and when service will start?

http://centurycityconnect.com/

**JacquesD** · 11-01-2012 01:24 PM

All i see if the fibre going into the ground, looks like they are almost done.

**burn** · 13-01-2012 11:47 AM

I believe the main loop is in the ground, and they will finish the rest this month. I've noticed that they are also busy running the cable to the buildings.

Very much looking forward to this, our offices ADSL just doesn't cut it.

**burn** · 24-01-2012 08:22 AM

Anyone got any further information?

Our IT guy has tried to contact them but they always call him back on his work line after hours. Seems they don't want customers

**Johand** · 24-01-2012 09:42 AM

Originally Posted by burn

Anyone got any further information?

Our IT guy has tried to contact them but they always call him back on his work line after hours. Seems they don't want customers

Yes, not sure exactly what they are doing. But I think they never really planned to deal with customers directly and rather just with ISPs. I think they only need a bit extra transparency - maybe just give dates on when the ISPs will be announced.

I am a bit confused why they went to all the trouble of creating twitter and facebook accounts and then not use it though.

**burn** · 26-01-2012 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by Johand

Yes, not sure exactly what they are doing. But I think they never really planned to deal with customers directly and rather just with ISPs. I think they only need a bit extra transparency - maybe just give dates on when the ISPs will be announced.

If I was one of these ISPs, I'd already have knocked on everyone's door and tried to sign them up. All seems very odd.

**CenturyCityConnect** · 05-03-2012 07:36 PM

Hi Guys

As Johand mentioned we deal directly with the ISPs.

Century City Connect is a last mile provider.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask.

Regards

**Johand** · 05-03-2012 07:57 PM

I spoke to frogfoot today which will focus serving on business clients using Century City Connect. I will hopefully be able to share more details soon. There will be artificial restrictions on the type of service companies can buy based on the size of the office space they rent - these restrictions are dictated by CenturyCityConnect. The services frogfoot spoke about were (and there are bigger packages as far as I understand):
1) 20Mbps burstable , 10-to-1 contention.
2) 20 Mbps burstable, 5-to-1 contention
3) 10 Mbps, 1-1 contention

Pricing structure was 12 month contract, installation fee, monthly fee and usage charges based on bundles with an in-bundle and out-of-bundle rates. As part of the service they provide an ethernet port, with fixed IPs so no need to purchase CPE. The only prices I haven't seen were the usage charges which can either make the other prices look really good or really bad. The service is symmetrical so direct comparison with ADSL might be unfair.

@CenturyCityConnect can you please provide some additional information to the forum?
1) Buildings currently inspected & covered.
2) Roll-out plan & schedule
3) List of currently selected ISPs (as far as I understand frogfoot and two other ISPs were already identified, don't have the names of the other two).
4) Mabye update the website a bit - everybody is screaming for the service because the ADSL exchange is verging on collapse :-)

**CenturyCityConnect** · 06-03-2012 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by Johand

I spoke to frogfoot today which will focus serving on business clients using Century City Connect. I will hopefully be able to share more details soon. There will be artificial restrictions on the type of service companies can buy based on the size of the office space they rent - these restrictions are dictated by CenturyCityConnect. The services frogfoot spoke about were (and there are bigger packages as far as I understand):
1) 20Mbps burstable , 10-to-1 contention.
2) 20 Mbps burstable, 5-to-1 contention
3) 10 Mbps, 1-1 contention

Pricing structure was 12 month contract, installation fee, monthly fee and usage charges based on bundles with an in-bundle and out-of-bundle rates. As part of the service they provide an ethernet port, with fixed IPs so no need to purchase CPE. The only prices I haven't seen were the usage charges which can either make the other prices look really good or really bad. The service is symmetrical so direct comparison with ADSL might be unfair.

@CenturyCityConnect can you please provide some additional information to the forum?
1) Buildings currently inspected & covered.
2) Roll-out plan & schedule
3) List of currently selected ISPs (as far as I understand frogfoot and two other ISPs were already identified, don't have the names of the other two).
4) Mabye update the website a bit - everybody is screaming for the service because the ADSL exchange is verging on collapse :-)

Hi Johan

1) Buildings currently inspected & covered.
Distribution builds
• Heron Crescent
• Waterford precinct
• Estuaries

Access builds
• Waterford house
• Century Square
• Colloseum
• Northbank Building
• Builevard Place
• Estuaries 2
• The Courtyard- Building 2
• The Courtyard- Building 1

3) List of currently selected ISPs (as far as I understand frogfoot and two other ISPs were already identified, don't have the names of the other two).

ISPs:
-Frogfoot
-iConnect
-ATEC

We are finalising contracts with 3-4 other ISPs and will release the names as soon as they sign on.

4) Mabye update the website a bit - everybody is screaming for the service because the ADSL exchange is verging on collapse :-)

We will be sure to do so, please keep an eye on the "News" section. Facebook is also live.

From our side:
It is not the intention for the network to compete against highly over-sold and contended
services offered over mediums such as ADSL or 3G. The intention of the network is to provide
high capacity and dedicated bandwidth to businesses and as bulk connectivity to residential
schemes in Century City.

If you have any questions regarding fibre availability in certain precincts or buildings please forward it to us.
This will provide us to supply you with precise answers you are looking for surrounding deployment positions and timings.

Regards

**burn** · 26-03-2012 10:05 AM

Originally Posted by Johand

Pricing structure was 12 month contract, installation fee, monthly fee and usage charges based on bundles with an in-bundle and out-of-bundle rates.

Fast speeds but long contracts and bundles/caps? Was hoping for some progressive thinking, maybe the other ISPs will bring a better option. Although a reasonable price might make up for these shortcomings.

**sunflour** · 09-05-2012 07:32 PM

Does anyone know of any Century City Connect ISPs offering services to residential customers? From the ones I called, only 1 was offering residential packages and their cheapest package is R699 for 1mb uncapped PLUS a once off fee of R599 - pretty pricey!

**JacquesD** · 10-05-2012 11:36 AM

Focus is first on buisnesses i would assume, but i did see an article recently where they spoke about having one residential complex connected already and one could then choose your own ISP (that are part of the program). i would give it a bit more time to develop.