Bandwidth prices hurt MultiChoice

DSM said:
Okay, just want to make sure I've got this right, so Multichoice complain that Hosting is too expensive in SA because bandwidth is expensive in SA, so they're going to host overseas. Thus making the expensive international bandwidth problem, their consumer's problem, rather than their own?
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seems to be a correct summery!

Surely Multichoice knew the costs involved beforehad, and surely those hosting/bandwidth costs have not increased during the last few months. (it most likely decreased, and will keep on decreasing)

Most likely this was bad planning (under-estimating the usage), and/or cost cuts to save jobs.
 
Adie said:
Why do we even pay for using local bandwidth? Isn't that supposed to be free?

I don't understand at all.
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Yup, in my mind, the hardware and cabling for all of teklom's ADSL local loop is being payed for by the ludicrous ADSL line rental fee's.

But ... since there is no competition yet ... :cry:
 
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I am surprised they have people that use this service at all. Personally I only used it when it was launched; I even forgot it existed. This was mostly out of curiuosity, I guess I expected something different from mono. I wonder if they thought their decision through...
 
Like I said in my last comment to when MyBroadband posted that in June 2009, SEACOM will push down prices. I fail to see how cheaper international bandwidth will solve our local bandwidth/hosting pricing. The light at the end of the tunnel is not the end of the tunnel but the train that will hit us. :(
 
the very high cost of bandwidth in South Africa left the company with little choice but to explore international hosting to bring this bandwidth intensive content to South Africans.
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I must be missing something. Local bandwidth is cheaper than international bandwidth. So now they're moving from local to international because local is too expensive and we will end up paying more anyway? :confused:
 
Yea, I'm pretty sure that somewhere SAIX said that local bandwidth and international bandwidth were charged differently at the ISP's using SAIX utilities ...

Of course ... I cannot find anything on this.
 
Multichoice's subscription charges hurts South Africans.

They made how many billion rand profit last year, even with local hosting costs? I don't see how they are suffering. Sorry.
 
gregmcc said:
I must be missing something. Local bandwidth is cheaper than international bandwidth. So now they're moving from local to international because local is too expensive and we will end up paying more anyway? :confused:
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That's exactly what I was thinking. Doesn't really add up does it?

As things stand, website success spells instant financial disaster for local developers,
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Maybe I'm just having a slow day today, but I'm not getting the meaning of this either. :confused:
 
Uhm how does this change in 12-18months?? am i missing something? I mean i just see seacom landing and vans licensing and as far as i know adsl is the only major package currently that distinguishes between the two, cellular, iburst doesnt etc
 
DSTV has nothing I want anyway (or can't get elsewhere). Meh... carry on.
 
UglyKidJoe said:
"As things stand, website success spells instant financial disaster for local developers"

Maybe I'm just having a slow day today, but I'm not getting the meaning of this either. :confused:
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I use Afrihost. Fortunately my website doesn't have a lot of content, nor does is it very popular. But if it were, then I would soon be bashing against this:

Data TransferLlimit: South Africa 2000MB
Cost per MB moved over Data Transfer Limit: R0.09 (R90/Gig)

Whereas if I host overseas, paying an equivalent $10 per month, I can find scores of hosting companies providing unlimited bandwidth for my website.

The real spanner in the works is that if your content is only of use to local consumers, you have to pay above international bandwidth rates to send the data to them over the local network, whereas the actual cost of that bandwidth to the backbone provider is negligible.
 
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Gatecrasher said:
Data TransferLlimit: South Africa 2000MB
Cost per MB moved over Data Transfer Limit: R0.09 (R90/Gig)
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I see. Thanks for that.

Spending most of my time abroad, I sometimes take for granted the availability of broadband and the content that comes with it.

In fact, I expect sites to be filled with rich content and web 2.0 stuff.

We must have this kind of availability in SA, finnished and klaar. What's with this rubbish 3gb cap anyway? Geez, we are in the 21st century, the whole world is online and enjoying web 2.0, but thanks to good old African corruption and hidden agendas, we are deinied.

That's my rant for the day. Thanks
 
So the strategy of one monopolistic giant affected the strategy of another monopolistic giant...whatever.
 
Once again Hellkom and Monochoice screwing up SA consumers!
 
According to Vodacom Business’ Wally Beelders users can expect this scenario to change within the next 12 to 18 months, with massive bandwidth price reductions on the cards.
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International prices maybe, but surely not local. I say that because I assume he is talking about seacom etc, but that wont affect local bandwidth prices, or will it?
 
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