Broadband price drop expected in 2012

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Broadband price drop expected

Consumers can look forward to even cheaper broadband prices, with many new undersea cables set to come online within the next 18 months. It is unclear how much of a decrease is likely, but talk in the industry is of a 10% to 20% drop in local prices, which are regarded as being among the highest in the world.
 
I'm no longer unhappy with the price of the Bandwidth..

What I AM unhappy with is the price of Access.. and I point my finger squarely at Telkom in this regard.
 
I don't care about bandwidth prices any more. I care about the quality.

I pay R599 for uncapped access that's WORSE than the rest of the world's? C'mon, that's not right. How about sorting that out, making it worthwhile and THEN we can talk price reductions.
 
Still doesn't change the fact that Telkom charge an arm and leg for IPC cost. IMO Non-ADSL services will probably benefit from this.
 
Cheap broadband means nothing,

We get slow download speeds, slower upload speeds, extremely bad pings, heavy throttling for using what you have paid for a lot.

Until all these issues can be solved, there isnt much to celebrate about
 
Jannie031 said:
Still doesn't change the fact that Telkom charge an arm and leg for IPC cost. IMO Non-ADSL services will probably benefit from this.
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Which will make ADSL in SA fall even further behind. And telkom STILL wont drop the IPC cost.
 
The problem is not with cost of international bandwidth, the problem is with the ADSL line rental costs.
 
Telkom is their own worst enemy. if they do not lower their prices soon (especially now with all this lovely extra bandwidth) they are playing straight into the hands of cellular providers. already most consumers are turning to them for internet access, and while it might be exponentially higher (on a per MB/GB basis) it is FAR faster.

Or maybe ComCast/AT&T will realize there is a huge untapped market in SA and promptly start offering better internet service. But alas, south africa does not have the backhaul technology in place, and considering what backhaul technology is capable of today, you would think we are still living in the nineties. so my opinion: don't get your hopes up. nothing is going to happen unless there is mass consumer action or a direct consumer engagement with Telkom Executives. like that full page ad that they did in the mail and guardian in 2007.

/rant over
 
My adsl exchange was so congested that every night my ping would shoot up to 300/400ms which for fps is basically unplayable.

Cheaper bandwidth will just make it even worse... (Not that I care since I'm on wireless independant of telkom :D)
 
That SAex cable looks EPIC.
All I know is that 2014 is set to be a magical, magical year. High-speed, cheap Internet access as well as NO data limits should (hopefully) be the order of the day. Perhaps we'll actually get some affordable FTTx solutions by then too, hmm? Cable TV services as well, maybe?
The problem is Telkom will probably still ignore copper theft in rural areas leaving people just outside towns and cities to fend for themselves without landlines.
We still need more fixed-line providers :|
 
The article is incorrect and makes an assumption that because there is more bandwidth to the landing stations then the prices of broadband packages will drop.

The analysts who comment on this fail to realize that Telkom has a strangle hold on the landing station with cross connect charges and national backhaul charges to the main population centres in South Africa. So if there is no movement on lowering the price on the latter, the former can be for free or at a negligible cost and the price of broadband packages will not change.
 
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