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Altech's fibre plans
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Shake&Bake
Party Liaison
Based on the following from the article, it seems highly unlikely...
Average Joe doesn't seem to fall into their niche market.
If you had any trouble with the service - where do you reckon you'd be on their "things to do list"?
All the way at the bottom, in my mind.
With the business model they are putting in place.
An indivual home, would be a pain for them I'd reckon.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
I don't see why not. It would be silly of them to ignore all the potential clients along the route of existing fibre. They could more quickly recoup their capital costs by roping in the clients along the way. But they would keep the product offering and overheads very simple. One product (maximum speed and uncapped), one payment method, etc.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
Netguy
Senior Member
Yet another Pavement digger!!!
Why do they not join forces with DFA, or the MTN/Neotel/Vodacom initiative, and get some synergy going?
Why do they not join forces with DFA, or the MTN/Neotel/Vodacom initiative, and get some synergy going?
Shake&Bake
Party Liaison
Pipedreams and pipedreams...
Stop proclaiming false hope
I'd never see them doing that here and now (at least)
They're going to do what Neotel, VC and MTN are doing.
Fibre is going to go to corporates first.
Less of a headache to dig, install, maintain and troubleshoot.
Also the corporates are more lucrative because of the bandwidth required.
So the best way to recover cost would be to get maximum volume on the pipe with the least amount of hassle.
And that would be one "big" client at a time.
The corporate market is where they stand to gain as much traffic and revenue.
Also it would be more tolerable to handle a single corporate client's pipe/feed and any problems that may come along than several households along the way.
Looking out for the man on the street does not feature in their playbook at the moment.
Telscum after 30 years of "experience/rape" can't do it.
Why would Altech be able to?
An option that could prove viable is;
If they were to sub-contract, partner or lease sections of the cable passing by residential areas to those operators whom now have their ECNS licenses.
Get the smaller groups/companies that have those licenses to branch off the "main" pipe and lay fibre networks (FTTH/FTTC) in the smaller residential areas.
They resell bandwidth to the partner company, which inturn supplies the residential market.
Any faults the residential clients would have would go through the partner company to Altech.
Would be more managable and less of a headache if there was any disruption.
There you go Altech - get that sorted and send my cheque
Stop proclaiming false hope
I'd never see them doing that here and now (at least)
They're going to do what Neotel, VC and MTN are doing.
Fibre is going to go to corporates first.
Less of a headache to dig, install, maintain and troubleshoot.
Also the corporates are more lucrative because of the bandwidth required.
So the best way to recover cost would be to get maximum volume on the pipe with the least amount of hassle.
And that would be one "big" client at a time.
The corporate market is where they stand to gain as much traffic and revenue.
Also it would be more tolerable to handle a single corporate client's pipe/feed and any problems that may come along than several households along the way.
Looking out for the man on the street does not feature in their playbook at the moment.
Telscum after 30 years of "experience/rape" can't do it.
Why would Altech be able to?
An option that could prove viable is;
If they were to sub-contract, partner or lease sections of the cable passing by residential areas to those operators whom now have their ECNS licenses.
Get the smaller groups/companies that have those licenses to branch off the "main" pipe and lay fibre networks (FTTH/FTTC) in the smaller residential areas.
They resell bandwidth to the partner company, which inturn supplies the residential market.
Any faults the residential clients would have would go through the partner company to Altech.
Would be more managable and less of a headache if there was any disruption.
There you go Altech - get that sorted and send my cheque
boswald
Senior Member
It is not "Technology Concept" but "Technology Concepts"
How long have they been around? I only heard about them recently.