Africa INX cans Uncapped ADSL plans

Kabal said:
According to Hardy Africa INX has been monitoring the progress of uncapped ADSL since its launch, and has watched users moving from the traditional capped services to uncapped services, only to migrate back to more reliable capped services again.

Where do they get this crap? 5 people move back? Where are these numbers ? The only one I see is mweb's tribe of 70 000 ..... Who here has gone from capped to uncapped then back to capped because of service? If so please tell us why.
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not me, okay, well, i was with "screamer" and moved to Mweb uncapped, and no jokes, this works just as good as my unshaped Axxess and Afrihost accounts, i have been doing 60gbs that last 4 months no complaints!!
MWEB FTW
 
Odracir said:
:wtf: is jy be-phok R60 for 2gigs, what hole did you crawl from? :wtf:
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afrihost currently sells their capped data for R30 a gig????? I dont see the problem

thats what im sayin, I want to see a solution that gives you a lot more data than that, at a price that lies between the R60 we are currently paying for 2gigs and the R199 we are currently paying for uncapped. For example R100 for 20 gigs etc.
 
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ave said:
afrihost currently sells their capped data for R30 a gig????? I dont see the problem

thats what im sayin, I want to see a solution that gives you a lot more data than that, at a price that lies between the R60 we are currently paying for 2gigs and the R199 we are currently paying for uncapped. For example R100 for 20 gigs etc.
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i pay R219 for 60gb's, thats R3.65 per gb, seriously dude, Mweb is the best
 
ave said:
afrihost currently sells their capped data for R30 a gig????? I dont see the problem
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Dude, no offense, but if you don't see a problem with paying R30 a gig there must be something very wrong with you..
 
I have to say, I think the wrong question is being raised by this article.

The real question should be, is DSL as a standalone profit making product sustainable in the long term? I believe the answer is, only, and I stress this, ONLY in the case of *MASSIVE* customer volumes (I.E, if you're a new player, you're gonna struggle)

The margins on selling DSL have been stripped to almost nothing because of competition, and they will continue to erode as people realize that bandwidth should be a commodity. What I mean by this is, use the bandwidth to deliver services which you can profit from, don't rely on your bandwidth as your central stream of profit, because if you do, you're gonna end up disappearing the moment someone does come along that is prepared to effectively give the bandwidth away in order to subsidize the provision of another product.

Those companies that are big enough to survive on the DSL profit margins alone will need astronomically huge customer bases (if you're making R10 a customer per month, have 30k customers, you're making R300k a month, which might sound like a lot, but considering to run a network catering to 30k customers can probably run you in excess of 100 million a year turnovers, its simply not a viable business proposition). So, if you're a new comer, I believe the lesson is, if you're gonna do DSL, better have something else to back it up with :)

I still believe everything I wrote in http://mybroadband.co.za/news/telecoms/11212-The-ISP-Industry-where-from-here.html

Now I just believe however that the market is starting to show signs of it, and its admittedly happening a fair bit faster than I anticipated :)
 
Maximum respect to Africa INX for not releasing a service that claims to be one thing only to desecrate it with FUP.
 
Personally I commend them for being honest with their customers and not offering something that they can't back up service wise *cough afrihost*
 
Another very happy MWeb 4mbps uncapped customer this side.
In the beginning I was chomping a few hundred gig a month. Now I may do 20. I think this is the kind of thing MWeb were banking on and from what I have seen above other big downloaders have also reduced their per month chomping.

MWEB FTW!
 
I say bring on the 100gb for R500 unshaped accounts and i will be first in line :D
 
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You mean the one that has the F word in it :p
 
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Seriously, you guys who are happy with Mweb and doing less than 100 Gbs a month. That's great and I'm happy for you. But your opinions really don't count here... because you are not really using anything near "uncapped levels".

I'm pretty sure all those Moms and Pops who only use 200 Mb of their 1 Gb Telkom Do Broadband Level 1 subscriptions are also very happy with their "internet"! :D
 
Gary you arrogant ass, lots of people have uncapped simply because they don't want the risk of getting cut off every month if they happen to download a steam game or similar. Nobody in the world would have uncapped if everyone did hundreds of gigs a month, it requires many users who don't do hundreds of gigs to subsidize the ones who do.

And their opinion is way more valid as they are the majority as well the "profitable" clients.
 
“Having also met recently with almost every ADSL provider, it is clear that the vast majority of these providers are investigating ways of exiting their uncapped strategies as they cannot sustain the support etc costs of addressing this network.”
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Guess Mweb was not part of those.
 
Um... uncapped means uncapped.. it's not about how much you use. Yes I only get to about 70GB a month, but thats only because thats all the 384kpbs line can physically do. If I had an extra grand or so a month to spend on 4Mbps , I'd definitely be doing 100's of GB's a month, believe you me. Well in the beginning at least. And MWEB would be absolutely fine with it. Just look around at all the people in the forums who are doing exactly that. It's your choice if you don't like mweb or just feel the need to spend 1000's every month on a connection from another ISP instead of say, a house or a sailboat but please, stop hating on the people who enjoy their cheap (well not cheap, just slightly less outrageously expensive) awesome mweb uncapped accounts.
 
Without an uncapped product what would africa INX have to offer to drum up significant business? Remember to be realistic, 50 gigs for R50 is not realistic at this point.
 
Shayd said:
Gary you arrogant ass, lots of people have uncapped simply because they don't want the risk of getting cut off every month if they happen to download a steam game or similar. Nobody in the world would have uncapped if everyone did hundreds of gigs a month, it requires many users who don't do hundreds of gigs to subsidize the ones who do.

And their opinion is way more valid as they are the majority as well the "profitable" clients.
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And do you only use 200 grams of your Kellogs Corn Flakes box as well? :D

No need for the insults though. We are all adults here... I hope.
 
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