3 Mbps DSL for $29.95 per month!

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It gets worse - Verizon have installed fibre-optic cables, and in select parts of the US, you can a 15mbps/2mbps connection for $50/month.
 
Well thats all over the world reality only South Africa has expensive unacceptable internet connections:P
 
Dominic Rooney said:
For a 15Mbps/2mbps connection @ R350/month?!?! Have you gone MaD (:D) ?
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Was being *extremely* sarcastic :) for the price of 512k with 3GB cap here one can get 3x15Mbps in the US.. 45Mbps for the same price as 512k.. ya, not a bad offer.
 
All that speed and a 3 gig cap, greeeaaat, NOT!!. Speed isnt the issue so much, its the cost of the bandwidth to the average man on the street. A true broadband connection like that, under Telkoms cap rules, will just make any average user bankrupt in no time at all.
 
Remember that even though Telkom have plenty of bandwidth on SAT-3 they don't have enough to support even the current amount of ADSL users connecting at 15 Mbps. Until the East Coast cable is in place don't expect any packages much above 1mb/s.
 
I'm in the UK atm - I've got uncapped/unshaped 2mb dsl for £21.99 /month inc vat with a static ip thrown in.
 
At a contention of 50:1 wouldn't they just need 1.3Gbps to support 65,000 1Mbps users?

Perdition said:
Remember that even though Telkom have plenty of bandwidth on SAT-3 they don't have enough to support even the current amount of ADSL users connecting at 15 Mbps. Until the East Coast cable is in place don't expect any packages much above 1mb/s.
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Correct MaD, but at 15 Mbps per user it would be close to 20 Gbps which is almost Telkom's entire bandwidth allocation on the cable (unless they buy out a few of the other stakeholders). Of course Telkom would never offer this at an affordable price to the home user.

I'd venture a guess and say perhaps in a years time they'll offer a rather expensive 2mb/s package and keep it at that until they're forced to offer better by real competition (wildly assuming the SNO competes rather than forms a cartel with Telkom ;) )
 
If I had R4.3 Billion I reckon I'd throw it in the sea

As far as I understand it the SAT3/SAFE cables cost $650 million which at current exchange rates is about R4.3 billion. Now that is obviously quite a chunk of change but considering that MTN and Vodacom each made above R5bill last year and there must surely be some other companies out there with a bit of loot floating around why don't a couple of them get together and lay some fibre.

If I understand it correctly Telkom only has access to 20% of these cables. So for R4.3 B these compnaies could get 5x what telkom has.

I would imagine they would make their money back at an alarming rate and the cost/speed of internet would go down/up at the same time.
 
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