Bandwidth for Africa

I'd like to see how much bandwidth prices really go down... Remember, we pay around R10 per gig for local only access and I doubt that the price could be lower than 20-30 rand... I pray I'm wrong but...
 
lol, are we gonna have atleast one seacom article per week until june 2009 saying nothing that the previous ones haven't already covered?
 
sorry but once again this seem like just more hot air. where is my cheap fast internet?
 
I think the point of the articles is to keep us excited and hopeful. Not too sure if it's working.
 
yawn!

no more Seacom stories until the land that cable in ZA please.
 
I think every week or so they post another "new" seacom article, they move the paragraphs around a bit, and change the title and graphic.
 
Money talks;

I want some estimation, all the articles say, "...bring down the cost allot..." or "...Significantly..." all relative terms, will we be getting sub R500 high-speed uncapped links? or will significant translate to R5.00.

All these articles are saying nothing new, still just, cheaper comms is on the horizon... Lets all hope it is as "significant" as they all say...
 
ASS_SAZiN` said:
Money talks;

I want some estimation, all the articles say, "...bring down the cost allot..." or "...Significantly..." all relative terms, will we be getting sub R500 high-speed uncapped links? or will significant translate to R5.00.

All these articles are saying nothing new, still just, cheaper comms is on the horizon... Lets all hope it is as "significant" as they all say...
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+1
 
Hopefully, if the news gets around, there'll be fewer people suckered into 24-month contracts - which could lead to some specials.
 
Yet another Seacom article. Yay.
While cheap bandwidth (in the future) is going to be wonderful (supposedly), when is the price of the actual line rental going to drop?
Or Telkom stop multi-billing their customers for using the same copper?
Neotel to provide a fixed line solution?
LLU?
These are all just as important imho.
 
This thing's heading up the east coast of Africa...

If Somali pirates have the skill and technology to not only take a 300+ meter oil tanker, then how long before their blackmail activities involving blowing sections out of the undersea cable?

And no, the location of these undersea cables is not a secret. Their details are published so that fishermen can know to avoid them...but wait, the BBC tells us that many of the pirates are ex fishermen.

It's only a question of time...

I would be very weary of this until such time as the security situation in and around the Horn of Africa has stabilised.
 
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