40% DSL bandwidth per bit price drop

I noticed 'international' straight away. Perhaps people should open their eyes before clicking?
It does make rather depressing reading, though. First Neotel, then Seacom. Nothing's changed for me. I'm still being charged a huge amount for a few gigs a month.
 
I don't know better...

Headline vs Aticle sub-title vs Paragraph 1...
Propaganda... Pick a topic that will evoke a highly emotional response. Put your companies name next to it. If that is what you want ppl to think about when they think of your company. Do I have it right? Is that how advertising works?

Residential consumers are paying 40% less than they were 18 months ago for each megabit of bandwidth over DSL and over 30% less for cable. This compares with a drop of just 17% for fibre.
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Oh yes... There is a recession on. :mad:
Taurus excretum...

From a different article... (I love it when you see a quote and know you are going to use it somewhere, and it comes to pass)

Vox Telecom CEO Doug Reed says: "The biggest contributor to the cost is the international Internet portion because, unlike the European and American telecom companies, which basically sit on the traffic, we still have to transit this traffic to SA."
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Huh? Forgive me, my knowledge is really weak here. Doesn't my PC call google and google answers... My PC doesn't check that I want a google search and finds the answers out of random data that my service provider is 'floating' in... Or even better. Someone somewhere in the world is downloading a file and my machine goes "Oh, that's the one I am looking for and just listens in to collect the data..."

Abd the the European ISP's don'y have to buy data from the undersea cables to the USA and visa versa?

Bugger me if by all counts we are back at the local loop. Right?

More from Mr Reed in that other article...
But "the forthcoming undersea connections will bring these prices down and the local network will cost less once Neotel, Vodacom, iBurst (Vodacom) and MTN roll out their fibre and WiMax infrastructure. These developments are imminent and will contribute significantly to price reductions as competition becomes a reality".
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By this article today and the Neotel-we-just-finished-Namibia-etc article...

And the 'fact' that the caps have changed at Telkom but the amount of data those subscribers are getting is the same...

We know these few things to be true...

1) We the subscribers - the users of the network (local loop and Intl. connections at night) are being ridden raw... Kiss me, I'd like a bit of passion while I'm being screwed...
2) Every week we get to know more and more about smoke and mirrors and the lengths...

Fsck it. I am going to have a beer and a good weekend...
 
This is probably the least informative and misleading article I've read on myBB for a while. Maybe some competition is required.
 
Given Telkom's unique lexicon when it comes to broadband (What the **** is 'blended bandwidth'? Who else in the WORLD uses that term?), I initially thought that this article actually applied to telkom adsl subscribers that used international adsl. Well, I was wrong, but that was soon rectified.

Quite surprising to read that the USA considers itself "behind" in broadband adoption. Less than half the country has adsl? Wow. And they're already [-]rapu[/-]regulating the bejesus out of it.
 
Not cool at all

I agree. Maybe we need to rethink these sensationalist headlines. Especially topics like this, very touchy subject in South Africa given our current circumstances
 
froot said:
The articles always have these "wonderful" titles... and then the content as described above.

RPM, could you maybe take a look at changing things like this in the future? Bandwidth is a very sensitive topic to us and these titles aren't exactly helping.
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+1
*sigh*
 
Yet another effort at drumming up hits through false and misleading headlines.
Fabricated 'news'.

Why, rpm, why?
 
This article should rated 1 star and not 5 stars.
How does that song go "Whats another year to wait for decreased broadband costs" - been singing this for the last few years
 
Strobemeister said:
I noticed 'international' straight away. Perhaps people should open their eyes before clicking?
It does make rather depressing reading, though. First Neotel, then Seacom. Nothing's changed for me. I'm still being charged a huge amount for a few gigs a month.
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This is not the first article with a misleading title, and people using RSS feeds (like me) don't see the additional descriptions containing the word "international" you mentioned.
 
Damn, I get so excited seeing a crap or possibly irrelevant article and think, yessss, Im going to write a witty riposte or some jolly stab to the heart only to find Im 4 pages of witty ripostes and jolly stabs to the heart behind...don't you people have work to do?
 
Yet another article illustrating how amazing broadband is overseas and how they continue to benefit from price reductions, speed increases, etc, while we in SA are still getting screwed :(
 
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