Broadband price drop expected in 2012

Guys, if I can just add a dimension to consider in this discussion:

Bob imports a product for R100 and sells it for R150
Now, all of a sudden, Bob can import it for R30. Does he sell it for R40?

No, he sells it for R120. Because investors want their returns and profit albeit exorbitant, is profit. Only when the boss(govern-pigs) allow Bobs smaller brothers Joe,John and Tom, free unrestricted access to the whole market.
Including most importantly the infrastructure. Can prices drop like a ton of bricks.

We all get excited and happy to see uber-massive cables landing. Need to remember investors and shareholders want their cut first.
 
My exchange supports 8192Kbps. But doubt will jump to that speed because of adsl line cost prohibiting.
 
Hopefuly all the fibre optic cable that they've been destroying roads and gardens for will start to show some fruit. I think Telkom has some ambitious plans - we all heard it with the 20/40Mbps offering they're planning, but let's see what happens
 
With so much bandwidth, the price HAS to come down, for a number of reasons.

* The ISPs who currently offer reduced pricing on local internet will be able to reduce the premium of international.
* Services hosted in SA may consider hosting overseas rather
* More national bandwidth is being installed and will also come online
* The mobiles are increasing capacity and reducing their own costs - more HSPA sites (possibly LTE), more fibre between sites
* Wireless service providers are growing their market share.
* Satellite access pricing is coming down
 
ya right just like last time hey? another big cable coming , prices will drop, but they didnt, but you know what was applied was ridiculous AUPs, forget dropping the price on a throttled to **** product, make the product what is advertised as first uncapped, is uncapped - use as much as you want, uncapped with strict AUP throttling is not uncapped it soft capped to 5Gbs a day, this article just makes people angry. So just to recap, stop with the BS already.
 
Jack Shizz said:
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.
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Not really. Until MTN, Vodacom and Cell C get it into their thicvk skulls that they need to lay their own fibre for backhaul like Neotel is doing you can forget about any or all of these three words - "Fast" "Cheaper" "Quality". OI travel a loty in South Africa and use both Vodacom and MTN - whichever gives better results where I am staying. Unless I am staying in Sandton, Bryanston or a similar up market suburb I can forget about quality and speed. If I am staying in a town like Phalaborwa, Hermanus, Margate etc. it's even more difficult. The cell providers need to put less into shareholders pockets and sports events and more into taking care of their own backhauls.
 
I am more worried about quality with mobility these days than price. Yes cheaper bandwidth is always welcome, but we need to see improvement in quality - especially in the area of backhaul.
 
I just hop all those unlit fibres in south africa will be lit up by the time the cables arrive . cos we need urgent backhaul for success in our struggle for broadband. pun intended
 
Ever since SEACOM has landed international has really been a non-issue. Local infrastructure is what's keeping us back.
 
Wish I had a broadband connection (here at the office) that actually worked.... AND cheaper prices. :(
 
optic cable

Mtn is busy laying cable from Joburg to capetown. I stay in PE and the hole of PE was dug up and most of it is done buy now. They are building the fiber backbone of SA and in the near future we wil be able to choose mtn as a land line service. adsl speeds will increase and wil range from 1 MB to 1 GIG speeds.

I just hope that they wont charge a colossal amount to use this EPIC service!!!
 
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