ADSL prices down after World Cup?

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I sent Axxess an email asking what their plans were with the SEACOM cable and I got a reply this morning:
Hi Jonno,

We are still looking into what kind of discounted rates will be applied, any pricing changes that we receive due to this change will be passed on to our customers. As far as I am aware, the biggest changes will come after the 2010 world cup, as most of the bandwidth from the Seacom cable will be used for the 2010 world cup and thus will only be freed up afterwards, but do not take that as fact, as it has not been confirmed.

Regards,
Wayne Andrews
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So, at least they are investigating what they can do to lower prices, but I wasn't under the impression that most of Seacom was being used for the World Cup...

Anyway...
 
Me neither. They must be expecting a lot of neotel traffic!!
 
It's to transfer all the HD content. The same HD content that DSTV will send out in SD but tell you it's HD. :p
 
Telkom have matched Seacom's prices - see thread somewhere on the forum... LOC/FIFA have contracted Telkom to provide links.

Redundancy for SAT3 is via SAFE, SAT2 and satellite.
 
I think somebody at Axxess has no idea of what he is talking about. Sounds like he just make it up.
 
DXL said:
Telkom lowered their prices a while Back to all wholesale Customers,

MTN - Vodacom - Iburst - ISP's - Cell-C - Neotel and all other wholesale clients.

Unfortunately this was kept top secret to milk you the customer.

The Big companies had no reason to drop prices as they were not going to lose customers if all agreed to maintain their high prices.

Most wholesale customers were locked into 5 year contracts with Prices similar to SEACOM's

If I were a Telecom Company i would have signed that 5 Year Contract as well.

Bandwith is never enough so i would get part of my requirements from
Telkom and the rest from SEACOM.

Not much difference in pricing so NO loss.

ITS About time that ICASA starts getting really difficult with Telecom Operators.

I hereby pledge R100 Towards a trip for All ICASA councillours to spend time with TRAI in India to learn a few things about Regulation.

TRAI only concerns themselves with Consumers ..........................
Thats their only interest........................................
Any rules or regulations made must benefit the Consumer or else it does not stand.

DXL - Team
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http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=183873

Pathetic axxess!!! :p
 
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Amazing!!! You got an email reply from Axxess.

Lol, at their stupid excuses. First you wait for Seacom, now you have to wait for 2010. What's after that? 2011 World Jukskei Competition?
 
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