All aboard the broadband wagon

[rpm]

All aboard the broadband wagon

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has been urged to unlock competition in the mobile data markets

 

[j4ck455]

The [-]Independent[/-] Incompetent Communications Authority of South Africa

For the sake of accuracy.

 

[MagicDude4Eva]

One can not look at retail prices per GB as we all know that mobile data has insane high profit margins. A more complete picture would be the cost at which I bought bandwidth (international traffic) over the last 4 years:

2010-03: R 38/GB (other companies where charged R 45-50)
2010-08: R 22/GB (other companies where charged R 30-45)
2011-03: R 11/GB (other companies where charged >R 30)
2012-11: R  4/GB (other companies where charged >R 15)
2013-07: R  2/GB (or R 0,64/GB if over 100TB)

Prior to March 2010 we still paid R45/GB and it was quite common for other clients paying substantially more (purely because they never complained/asked questions). I would think that the majority of hosting customers would still pay more than R5/GB in bandwidth currently.

 

[ngwenyas]

we should rather fight for spectrum then look at uncapped 4G