Capped internet study

[TrueSeeker]

A US study conducted in SA shows the bad of unreasonably capped accounts.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/internet-bandwidth-cap-isp-download-limit,15603.html

So caps in SA are so bad that they used our country as a control group to test the effect of low usage caps on consumers and the industry in general. They have of course historically provided their clients with as much as possible whereas our incumbent has just used caps as a tool to wring as much as possible from consumers. And the gov just can't understand why we hate Telkom...

edit: and by the way... check out this video showing a debate on usage based pricing in Canada

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYizoh_r6D0

'The incremental cost of GB is about 1-2 cents per GB'
This is why the undersea cable companies charge in bandwidth and why it is wrong that our packages are priced based on potential usage, but of course Telkom charges on usage... So we can't blame the ISPs much.

 

[skimread]

12 households isn't a proper study. They should have rather done a study to see why blackberry is the most popular phone in SA. This will give them a much better picture on the impact of caps.

 

[Mr.CookieMonster]

SA is still a developing country, we cannot expect to get "World class" pricing and service instantly. Obviously things must happen first. It would be a good study to actually conduct this test, but using countries in Africa. 3rd world to 3rd World comparison is more effect, not 1st to 3rd world. 12 households.....why not survey the whole block or the whole suburb??

 

[Jacques_mybb]

SA is still a developing country, we cannot expect to get "World class" pricing and service instantly. Obviously things must happen first. It would be a good study to actually conduct this test, but using countries in Africa. 3rd world to 3rd World comparison is more effect, not 1st to 3rd world. 12 households.....why not survey the whole block or the whole suburb??

Sad thing is that we have the potential to be first world.

 

[Mr.CookieMonster]

Sad thing is that we have the potential to be first world.

True that....If our government was a well oiled machine we would.