ADSL prices continue to decrease

I think Isp's are killing themselves.. :P

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All these cost per GB specials are becoming more for large usage per month, non rollover. So? What do people do when this happens? They share! ie. instead of having 4 standard accounts neighbours are now sharin they networks via wifi sunch that they pay a single connection and obvious utilize the bw more. silly.. but watch them whine in a few months.
 
It's fascinating to watch as people struggle to move from one paradigm to another. Everyone continues to think of the amount of download as some kind of measure of costs, and cheer and gasp as the price per unit plummets. What's really happening is that we are (at last) moving into another paradigm, where the measure is speed, not download. Speed, at least, is directly related to the costs incurred by ISPs, unlike download.

In this paradigm, the price per download is obviously going to move logarithmically towards zero. Very soon, we're going to have to stop counting the cents per Gigabyte, and start measuring the R per Mbps per month. Of course, one should also then start measuring actual performance - throughput vs claimed speed, symmetry, latencies to various destinations, jitter, availability, repair time, delivery time. I can't wait for proper FTTx services so that we can have these debates.

The small players who have become the price leaders in selling relatively smaller quantities of download at rapidly reducing prices are going to find themselves out of business once larger players offer sensible caps (30 - 50 GB) at affordable prices, and it just becomes too much of a hassle to count or pay per download any more.

Unfortunately, we're not going to see a similar paradigm shift for wireless services, since the caps on wireless services are typically there for a very different reason - the finite amount of spectrum, and hence bandwidth that can be shared between multiple users on a basestation.
 
saffakanera said:
It should be obvious that all these ISP's charging so little for bandwidth are contesting their users heavily. ICASA should regulate this, it is understandable that quality of service can never be guaranteed when it comes to bandwidth, but consciously throttling your own userbase in order to squeeze more into the same package is just unethical, plain and simple.
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Been with Afrihost since they launched their R29 per gig account. Never had an issue with speed. I regularly get the 4 mb/s my line can handle with single threaded downloads. Not like Telkom where it was usually around 512 kb/s...
 
I'm enjoying the slow but steady continual drop in prices over time. It's actually happening faster than I was expecting. We're got to get used to this thing called "competition." :P
 
scuzzy said:
When is Cybermsart launching the Weekender service? It's still not on their website...
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It's available AFAIK, email [email protected] to get yours.
Last weekend I downloaded 71gigs for a total cost to my bandwidth cap of around 5gigs...

If you take weekender package and you subscribe to nightrider you get 50 X the usage between 1am-7.59am on Saturday, Sunday and Monday mornings (Monday till 5.59am not 7.59am).

So on a 4mbps line one can do 1.5gig per hour or 10.5gigs between 1am-7.59. If you have weekender and nightrider that accounts for 0.21gigs of your over all cap..

Over the entire weekend during nightrider time slot you could do 28.5gigs at a total usage of your cap of 0.57gigs...

Then outside of Nightrider in normal weekender time slot a total of 35hours for 52.5gigs at a cost of 5.25gigs to your overall cap...
 
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What gets me is that we still have to pay Telscum R600 a month for the privilege of having a 4Mbps line .When that changes we can start to celebrate more . But well done ISP's , at least you are trying
 
I still want to know what is the cheapest ISP that does not require a copy of you ID ,no contracts and that you can apply online.
 
viper2110 said:
I still want to know what is the cheapest ISP that does not require a copy of you ID ,no contracts and that you can apply online.
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Why not just send Afrihost a copy of your ID? They are by far the cheapest at the moment.
 
Lower prices?

Lower prices and higher speeds are what we need, with the 2010 World Cup coming and with more and more ADSL packages being offered it can only get better, I hope :erm:
 
viper2110 said:
I still want to know what is the cheapest ISP that does not require a copy of you ID ,no contracts and that you can apply online.
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I got a Gconnect 27gb international unshaped 30 day broadband pass last week for R389.
no id required, no contracts and yes you can buy it online.
 
mith said:
I got a Gconnect 27gb international unshaped 30 day broadband pass last week for R389.
no id required, no contracts and yes you can buy it online.
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Thanks, will give them a try.
 
ads said:
It's fascinating to watch as people struggle to move from one paradigm to another. Everyone continues to think of the amount of download as some kind of measure of costs, and cheer and gasp as the price per unit plummets. What's really happening is that we are (at last) moving into another paradigm, where the measure is speed, not download. Speed, at least, is directly related to the costs incurred by ISPs, unlike download.

In this paradigm, the price per download is obviously going to move logarithmically towards zero. Very soon, we're going to have to stop counting the cents per Gigabyte, and start measuring the R per Mbps per month. Of course, one should also then start measuring actual performance - throughput vs claimed speed, symmetry, latencies to various destinations, jitter, availability, repair time, delivery time. I can't wait for proper FTTx services so that we can have these debates.

The small players who have become the price leaders in selling relatively smaller quantities of download at rapidly reducing prices are going to find themselves out of business once larger players offer sensible caps (30 - 50 GB) at affordable prices, and it just becomes too much of a hassle to count or pay per download any more.

Unfortunately, we're not going to see a similar paradigm shift for wireless services, since the caps on wireless services are typically there for a very different reason - the finite amount of spectrum, and hence bandwidth that can be shared between multiple users on a basestation.
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Instead of giving the wireless users speed, what about giving them a throttled service so as to ensure everybody get a fair share of bandwidth?

Just wondering.
 
viper2110 said:
RICA is for Cellphone SIM cards.
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That article refers to the sim cards (because I couldn't find a better article at short notice), but it is in fact for the "Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information" which you would have discovered if you read the article. It was covered here on MyBB last year. You can find the articles if you search for them here. And because of that it includes all Internet Providers as well. Educate yourself before you look a little bit silly.

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Telecoms/8643.html

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?214618-RICA-your-ADSL

http://www.iweek.co.za/ViewStory.asp?StoryID=175242
 
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Could somebody send a link to this thread to the guys over at WA? I think they may have missed what is going on in the market.
 
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