Capped versus uncapped ADSL

This guy does not know anything about world.i dont think he knows about what is really going on all over the world.beside third world countries none of other countries are offering capped internet.does he visit europe so often?if so he must tell me which european countries are offering capped internet.i think altech must show him the door :-)
 
buyeye said:
a lot of mweb 4 meg users do 150 gig without trying so yes uncapped does exist.
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yup - 480gb in september and 530gb in october. And its great speeds as well.

MWEB seems to have the best uncapped @ the moment. newsgroups and filesharing sites like rapidshare et al are mildly throttled during the day (~300kbps), but that suits me fine as I actually use my line for business as well
 
I have stopped mass downloading the internet and I still won't consider a capped account. I have better things to do than worry about bandwidth usage. Frankly the issue is no longer the cost of accounts but the cost of the line. Focus on that and the battle is won.

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I support very high capped unshaped accounts instead of cheap 'n nasty uncapped shaped accounts.

At this stage (pre-content streaming in SA) I would be happy with a 250Gb account.
 
I'll be happy if I can get a 100GB Unshaped account for a reasonable price. I don't need to backup the Internet every month.
 
Jannie031 said:
I'll be happy if I can get a 100GB Unshaped account for a reasonable price. I don't need to backup the Internet every month.
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If I were alone at home I would agree, but with a wife and 2 teenagers on the Net as well I don't want to worry about being capped.

Right now I use around 100-120Gb/m but with the holidays coming up that could increase.

For me the critical factor would be shaped vs unshaped, especially during peak hours. And pricing, of course...
 
mmmig said:
that's unreadable for that price 100GB sounds more reasonable, we have to wait for LLU to get that price
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LLU might give you that price in 5 years time. In the short term LLU won't impact on standard pricing although a few operators might offer promos to attract customers.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
I really wish there were better high-cap packages out there. It seems like the only decent one is the RedAfrica special, and even that's just a promotional account so it doesn't count. Would like to see 50GB increments - 50/100/150/200GB etc., at something like R1.50-R2/GB, but none of the peak/off-peak nonsense.
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For R1.50-R2/GB, Telkom would need to reduce the IPC rates dramatically, so yes /dream
 
Erm, people have been saying this for years.

I'd switch to a capped, 10mbps, 200gb - 250gb per month service in a heartbeat even if it was slightly more expensive than the current Mweb 4mb uncapped.
 
Shayd said:
I have stopped mass downloading the internet and I still won't consider a capped account. I have better things to do than worry about bandwidth usage. Frankly the issue is no longer the cost of accounts but the cost of the line. Focus on that and the battle is won.

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The reason we have these fair prices on bandwidth is competition . We don't have fair pricing on adsl lines because The beast(telkom) has a monopoly on adsl lines .

It doesn't look like we are going to get legislation by the goverment for fair pricing on adsl lines despite them preaching that broadband should be cheap and available to everyone . Btw if they read this here are the facts a few megs dont allow you to explore the internet even 2 gigs only allows you check your emails for the month and then you worry about not hitting your cap because topping up means coughing up another R300 .

So in short contineud monopoly of the adsl lines means oppression to the people you claim to have liberated as wireless networks are still prohibitively expensive to trully explore the internet. Youtube alone can use 20 gig just browsing the user upploaded stuff .

Speech done.
/off to work/
 
That's not really a reply to my post but you seem to be making the same point. Right now it's telkom not the ISP market that is the problem.

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I have been advocating a tiered pricing structure based on consumption for ages.

Charge me R10 per gig for my first 25 gigs. If I go over that amount charge me R5 for each additional gig I use. And so on.

It's utter BS that short users should be paying for these bandwidth chomping whores who approach 1TB a month.
 
bavmorda said:
If this is the case and he is really worried about how fair the uncapped product is, why Mr.Nobrega does not bring to the market 50Gb for let's say R.100, 100Gb for R.200 and 250Gb for R.400. I'm sure a lots of people will sign and it will be fair. Till then all of this talk is just cheep PR and sorry to say fart in the wind
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^this,
+1,
agree,
 
MickeyD said:
LLU might give you that price in 5 years time. In the short term LLU won't impact on standard pricing although a few operators might offer promos to attract customers.
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LLU not gonna change much. End of the day the line rental/maintenance still has to be paid and we gonna foot the bill regardless of the ISP.
 
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