1Gbps fibre access from R1,299

Four products being offered

4Mbps - Free
50Mbps - R499/month
100Mbps - R699/month
1Gbps - R1,299/month

All options have a R1,000 once off connection fee and a R1,500 once off installation fee and a 24 month contract term

Marketing brochure http://www.parkhurstvillage.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/VUMA-_-Parkhurst-Product-A4.pdf

I think the R699 - 100Mbps is the sweet spot on price/performance.

So as a long suffering Parkhurst resident insofar as Broadband (already had and discarded ADSL, Amobia, Neotel WiMax, Cell C 3G) for once I have something to look forward to :)
 
So now we just need a way to register interest in other suburbs so that companies can actually see there's a market for this :)
 
Very nice,if this works I'll get my community to sign Vuma up too.

The only question mark which should be hopefully answered soon is:
Bandwidth can be purchased from a number of competing providers, at an estimated cost of between R2 and R10 per GB depending on usage; and
Some providers may offer uncapped access.
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Will this be their own service providers or will the usual ISP's like web africa,telkom ISP,afrihost etc be allowed to provide this......if its open to normal ISP's then this should be a fantastic offer.
 
/steals Ryan Hawthorne to Mthatha

Hahahaha.. of interest and quoted from Techcentral story on this..

Vumatel’s proposal came out on top, at least partly because it offers open access and has a free line option,” he says.
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Hahahahaha....So the rest of the "Big Boys"(MTN, Vodacom, Telkom to mention a few:D) wanted to milk dry the residents of Parkhurst?Typical!!
 
Got to go pack my stuff...I'm moving to Parkhurst this evening.

I almost can't believe it...a sweet 4Mbps pipe (even if it is asymmetrical) and load 100GB on to that...ahhh man! If you wana look at the 50Mbps pipe you got go for about 300 go 500GB of data.

sigh...
 
The 4Mbps line speed will be offered free of charge, with the next line-speed of 50Mbps charged at R499 per month;
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Time to kick out the tenants and move back to my old house but before I do that. Need to make sure my house will definitely have access to FTTH :)

If you folks need a place to stay, you more than welcome to pitch in and make me food :P
 
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deweyzeph said:
24 month contract = big fail especially if you are already paying an installation fee.
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The only downside I can see but with a free line option it's effectively null and void. Will have to wait and see what the service providers bring to the table which is a bit of a conundrum. I can see the upside that an established isp already has service agreements in place but it's still business being given away. Still it's nice to see that someone else is in the same frame of mind that FTTH doesn't need to be that expensive and has the business plan to back it up.

Skerminkel said:
Well done Parkhurst people! What, two weeks to get the whole tendering process done? That is excellent. +5-10% on Parkhurst property values?
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That's the case when private citizens don't involve BEE and only price and service is a factor.
 
Just went through whats on the housing market and saw a R2.5m for a two bedroom house???? Parkhurst is clearly not for me then LOL
 
Interesting offers - right now I just hear the chirping of crickets at Vodacom and MTN. Wondering what the contention ratio is and how badly traffic would be shaped across protocols.
 
I find it weird, that I can neither find Vuma or Vumatel on Google - does this company actually have a website?
 
The part about buying bandwidth from other providers is interesting. Does this mean they are just going to put down a layer 2 connection to Jinx and you can then dial into other providers from there? You won't need IPC access but it should be something similar.
 
MagicDude4Eva said:
Interesting offers - right now I just hear the chirping of crickets at Vodacom and MTN. Wondering what the contention ratio is and how badly traffic would be shaped across protocols.
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MTN heard of this just before their scheduled launch on 1 June. They now have to go back to the drawing board as their original plan of raping their [-]cashcows[/-] customers won't fly.
 
MagicDude4Eva said:
Interesting offers - right now I just hear the chirping of crickets at Vodacom and MTN. .
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The openness with which this has been done must be troubling for them. We know one of the FTTH tenderers in the initial parkhurst presentation said R13mil to roll out FTTH infrstrucuture to the 2100 people. That's R6190 pp; with an install cost of R2500, means they have to reclaim R3700 over a few years. Easy peasy. Of course, maintenance, etc comes in, but the figures are all there for the seeing, and they're very favourable to consumers. And these aren't BS made up figures, these are actual black-and-white tenders that are deliverable on.

Edit: That R13mil is for overhead FTTH (R4.5mil underground backhaul/infrastructure, R8.5mil overhead runs to the houses).
 
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TheGuy said:
The part about buying bandwidth from other providers is interesting. Does this mean they are just going to put down a layer 2 connection to Jinx and you can then dial into other providers from there? You won't need IPC access but it should be something similar.
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I'm looking the VUMA doc now - https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwYBeS6usJwxd0JFNEFNc3pmLVU/edit (hope it was OK for me to link to, it does say it's for public consumption) - looks like their part in this is to link the homes to the local Teraco data center, and the bandwidth providers will shovel the data on to the network from there. Very clever. So Teraco is essentially the IPC, and it's totally open access - which would make me very comfortable. Most the ISPs will already have huge capacity there, and it's easy to ramp that right up quickly - no waiting for months to get Telkom to provision more IPC for you.
 
This is exactly what I'm thinking so you can essentially use adsl accounts from example afrihost on this network. It will just be a lot cheaper as there are no ipc costs at all.
 
Well done Parkhurst! I am sure part of the bandwidth will also go for local CCTV monitoring etc. as well not only internet access to the community.

BTW - I assume the physical installation will involve digging new trenches on the pavements with permission form the local council of course - just wonder how this got approved so fast?
 
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Well done Parkhurst! I am sure part of the bandwidth will also go for local CCTV monitoring etc. as well not only internet access to the community.
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They'll need the security to keep an eye out for people sneaking in with their laptops and hacking wifi AP's and stealing all the sweet, sweet bandwidth.
 
TheGuy said:
This is exactly what I'm thinking so you can essentially use adsl accounts from example afrihost on this network. It will just be a lot cheaper as there are no ipc costs at all.
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Not IPC but some other termed usage cost?
 
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