Build it and they will come

[rpm]

Build it and they will come

Seacom is on track to deliver cheap broadband to Africa by the middle of next year

 

[aadil-old]

if prices have dropped from R8000 to R800, how come we're not seeing any savings? On the hosting side or the access side (ADSL accounts, Iburst, 3G, etc)?

 

[Gatecrasher]

if prices have dropped from R8000 to R800, how come we're not seeing any savings? On the hosting side or the access side (ADSL accounts, Iburst, 3G, etc)?

For the South African Consumer nothing is certain but death, taxes, rising prices, and corporate greed.

 

[Wag]

For the South African Consumer nothing is certain but death, taxes, rising prices, and corporate greed.

You live in Africa my friend

 

[friedpiggy]

Wholesale prices may have dropped a bit but there aint no way we as consumers are going to see a drop in prices until at least this time next year.

 

[.Froot.]

This pipeline could only mean on thing... Telkom's Managers are getting faster internet!

 

[JerryMungo]

I have high expectations for Seacom (and Eassy and any other piece of fibre they are willing to stick in our oceans). I really hope it lives up to our expectations... then NGO's and aid organisations can put their donor dollars to better use than communications.

 

[TMoose]

if prices have dropped from R8000 to R800, how come we're not seeing any savings? On the hosting side or the access side (ADSL accounts, Iburst, 3G, etc)?

Um... we did. The entire sentence goes "He says that when Seacom announced its intention to launch the %600-million undersea cable project, operators in South Africa were pricing broadband at R8 000 per megabit per month and that prices have now dropped as low as R800 per megabit per month. “We have created competition before we even landed the cable,” said Herlihy."

Seacom announced this ages ago. We've been reading about this cable since like 2005 if they didn't start talking about intending to build it earlier even. People forget that in 2003 uncapped was all but a pipe dream and in 2004 was so expensive that some of the first of the VPN / Proxy services, like NukeCap, started doing their thing.

Our 1Mbps services wasn't launched until what, 2006? Before that you'd pay R1000's for uncapped 512.

 

[theJonster]

I would not recommend getting your hopes up about all this. History says that consumers won't benefit that much.

Instead of getting all excited, lets just wait and see what happens.

 

[lilGr]

I would not recommend getting your hopes up about all this. History says that consumers won't benefit that much.

Instead of getting all excited, lets just wait and see what happens.

Consumers not 'benefiting that much' is better than not benefiting at all, But I agree , lets wait and sea

 

[LazyLion]

My bet is bandwidth prices drop by half by the year's end (2009)... but that will be about it.

 

[Tns]

sorry all i heard is bla bla telkom bla chokes public.

 

[Ghost02]

I want affordable capless internet, even if it is only 389 or whatever kbps

 

[PrivateInSa]

The theory is milk it while you can

 

[Project X]

BLAh BLAh BLA Blah how long have they been talking for long..

 

[AntiThesis]

BLAh BLAh BLA Blah how long have they been talking for long..

A long time but we always need to keep hope neh? Otherwise what's the point?

 

[MurderFace]

Initially Seacom will deliver 80 gigabits of international capacity through its cable but can meet more demand easily because the cable has a potential capacity of 1,28 terabits (1 280 gigabits)

But Seacom plans to halve these prices again when it enters the market in June 2009 with a price of R435 per megabit per month.

REMEMBER... The wholesale price for international capacity wont only affect the cost of cap, but line speed and monthly rental cost as well. And the abundance of international capacity, combined with the drop in resell price per megabit, will translate in a price war. ISP competition is the only factor that will drive down these prices and only then will consumers be able to reap the rewards.

I would not recommend getting your hopes up about all this. History says that consumers won't benefit that much.
Instead of getting all excited, lets just wait and see what happens.

I Agree. The cost of cap and line rental wont fall overnight, but it will decrease. However slow it might be, change is still change.
So STOP ur GD whining

 

[Adeptus Mechanicus]

My prediction is that Neotel will not pass those savings onto the public in order to retain a ridiculous profit margin al-la-Telkom and we'll end up paying only marginally less for bandwidth (ie nowhere near 50% of what we currently pay) due to corporate greed and SA businesses' need to milk the consumer for no good reason.

A pessimistic view I'll admit, but a likely one.

 

[tjunyat]

Once again, this is great news!
It will naturally take a while for the cost savings to filter through to the consumer, but if everything that's in the pipeline happens, then let the good times roll!

Now, if only Telkom could drop the line rental, I'd be a happy camper.

 

[stoke]

Well, if teklom and notelcoverage don't want to play compete compete ... hey altech .. look here.
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