1 Gbps and counting

[Weasley]

It doesn't work that way. It is not the price of the download/upload capacity.

If a company in London buys a link to SA, they pay x. If a company is SA buys a link to London, they pay x*5 for 1/2 the capacity.

Similar to the price we pay (used to pay?) for international calls. Everyone knows it is much cheaper to call SA from the UK than calling the UK from SA.

So if your ISP make a london office and then buy from there to here instead?

 

[Quest10n]

When can the consumer see real results from all this because Neotel is here and I don't see pricess of all the other players coming down anytime soon.

 

[HBee]

This is a bit like boasting about getting a tap when the neighbours have a pool.

 

[nictron]

This is a bit like boasting about getting a tap when the neighbours have a pool.

Well if you never had water and had to beg or pay the neighbor for a water and a swim you might actually appreciate the installation of a tap. Now just pick up the shovel and pickaxes and start digging your own pool! Takes time but you might get there!

 

[Nafisa]

Neotel - how about sorting out current connectivity (or lack of it) issues?

 

[andres101]

So if your ISP make a london office and then buy from there to here instead?

After I posted I thought of exactly the same thing. Something similar to those international calling cards, but for bandwidth

I'm not sure why they don't. I guess that most ISP's are simply reselling ADSL accounts, so they pay Telkom for the bandwidth. Also, the cost of setting up a London office (purely for getting cheaper bandwidth) might also be prohibitive.

 

[ponder]

So if your ISP make a london office and then buy from there to here instead?

Won't help you. People forget about Telco interconnect charges. If Telkom has a STM4 to say British Telecom there are fees involved to interconnect. The cost is not a 50/50 split, telkom will pay more to BT as Telkom needs it more than BT. The smaller guys will always pay the bigger guys. The same goes for the SAT3 cable.

This is all happening before we even talk about ISP bandwidth prices.

 

[Netguy]

Good for Neotel to boast about ensuring redundancy and lower latency - hopefully they will do something about their frustrating habit of keeping on dropping a data connection!!! If it wasn't that alternative connectivity stays alive when Neotel drops, I may have believed there could be something wrong at my end, but clearly the issue is with NeoSNAIL - especially when a ordinary website like gmail.com starts taking half a century to respond.

 

[Tns]

gee thanks neotell

 

[Toby]

And the consortium pricing

I seem to remember something way back about telkom forcing a clause on SAT3/SAFE SA Landing Ownership or providers whereby pricing was set at some high level. Did this apply to ALL providers landing in SA on SAT/SAFe3, and if it does, I do not see how this will drop prices.

If the above is still in force, it will be interesting to see what the effect of taking this to the competition commission would be. They seem to be quite bullish lately, as SASOL has just found out

 

[kilos]

1Gbps? 1Gbps? 1Gbps? Come on! People in Japan have that to their homes. It's been almost 5 years, and Neotel only have 1Gbps? The Seacom cable alone is 1310Gbps and they want to brag about 1Gbps? Sigh!

Remember we are in Africa, were you pay more for less bandwidth, and we dream for 20 Mb/s+ DSL uncapped sigh +1

 

[Ry4n]

1Gbps? 1Gbps? 1Gbps? Come on! People in Japan have that to their homes. It's been almost 5 years, and Neotel only have 1Gbps? The Seacom cable alone is 1310Gbps and they want to brag about 1Gbps? Sigh!

It's no surprise that everybody I know who had Neotel have already cancelled their contracts even after being forced to pay over R2000 for a useless device with no second hand value.

I think 1gbps is fair for Neotel - give them credit they are a fairly new player in the game and the seacom cable hasn't landed yet, when Seacom is complete they will have way more access to International bandwidth. Neotels probelm isn't Int bandwidth is the local loop once they get access to that, their customers will be alot happier - wifi is $%!£!!! FIOS FTW!!! You can't build a national telecom carrier like that! Give them time to build their national network not reliant on other operators, then they should focus on end user infrastructure, it's just a company at the end of the day.

Anyone what is IS's int bandwidth capacity??? and its satellite (high latency)

Neotel should start an ISP - 10gig ADSL accounts for R350!!!