Bandwidth prices to make you weep

[jes]

Bandwidth prices to make you weep

“You can buy a megabit today for fifty cents. In five years, it could be ten megabits for the same price.”

 

[Sodan]

“You can buy a megabit today for fifty cents [50 USD cents = R3.36]. In five years, it could be ten megabits for the same price.”

Megabit, as in 128kB? So what works out to R26.88/MB, or R27525.12 per GB. Are we talking roaming prices here?! :wtf:

 

[Wimhotep]

Should that not be R 0.02 per MB ??
( R 19 a GB )

 

[Lycanthrope]

Megabit, as in 128kB? So what works out to R26.88/MB, or R27525.12 per GB. Are we talking roaming prices here?! :wtf:

Megabit as in throughput bandwidth (speed/capacity). Think basically a 1Mb line for $0.50.

'tis why I hate it when bandwidth transmission is used ambiguously in referring to usage/cap.

 

[Gatecrasher]

Yep, these are access speeds, not caps.

Telkom has scarred us for life.

 

[MFour]

Yep, these are access speeds, not caps.

Telkom has scarred us for life.

Never a truer word spoken. I feel violated...

 

[Veyron]

Never a truer word spoken. I feel violated...

 

[Jola]

Telkom has scarred us for life.

That !

 

[InTheCube]

All I can say is - WOW... what a crap article.

OK I lied. I can say more. What was the whole point of this article? I need to go back and CTRL+F5 that page to make sure Firefox didn't skip a few important paragraphs when loading the page.

 

[devilfp]

Never a truer word spoken. I feel violated...

A common thing in RSA!

 

[ranger]

Megabit, as in 128kB? So what works out to R26.88/MB, or R27525.12 per GB. Are we talking roaming prices here?! :wtf:

He probably said 'megabit', but it should have been written/quoted as '1 Mbps'. Providers don't buy/sell/trade data volume to each other, but capacity.