Cheaper broadband

Glordit said:
Get a R1 everytime I hear Broadband is going to get better I would be so rich that I could move out of S.A! ;)
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Or you might actually be able to afford a Telkom ADSL Uncapped, Unshaped, 4Mbps account. Maybe. But probably not.
 
sorry all i heard was bla bla telkom bla internet bla cheap... bla bla
 
Tns said:
sorry all i heard was bla bla telkom bla internet bla cheap... bla bla
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Thank you.

Here is the revamped version of my first post:

Internet service provider (ISP) MWeb is one of several companies likely to receive a licence allowing it to build its own network independently of Telkom.
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This would be the 'throw money into <insert company here>'

Several of them, including Dimension Data division Internet Solutions and retail consumer-focused ISP MWeb, are already building pilot wireless networks to test the feasibility of building their own infrastructure. Naspers-owned MWeb is running a huge test network with more than 750 consumers.
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more of the 'mweb really rocks, so look to invest there!'

WiMax will not replace fixed-line solutions, especially those that use high-speed fibre optics, the technology could ultimately provide broadband to consumers in areas not profitable for fixed-line operators. And any technology that will help bridge the yawning chasm between the connected and the unconnected in SA is surely a good thing.
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that would be the 'good message' part.

But all of this is old news. I want to know, how much, when and where? How are the tests going? Shapped, unshaped, throttled, caps?

And there is no talk about vodacoms commitment to wimax at all - this to me is a huge advert for mweb's wimax.
 
I think is is good news. Most people do not need unshaped, uncapped, unbelievable broadband, they just need decent broadband.

So WiMax will serve a good proportion of people, this will hopefully cause Telkom to improve it's existing products or loose the "average joe". So with a bit of luck we can hope to see things like line rentals, low caps and poor speeds causing Telkom customers to start moving en masse to other technologies like WiMax.

When that happens Telkom will have to shape up or loose it's income stream - not a pleasant prospect for their shareholders.
 
Great! Another MWeb article. Where, when and how much?
There have been challenges: the pilot network was built using the unregulated ISM band but interference from illegal wireless ISPs has seriously degraded the performance of its backhaul network.
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Yes use the illegal WISP crap again. You actually mean competition is a challenge.
 
In one instance in Cape Town, a signal was successfully carried over a distance of 22km.
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I'm guessing a body of water was a factor there.
Rooi Willie said:
WiMax sucks, we need cheeper ADSL access!! The contention for bandwidth and speed on the base stations are just not good enough. :mad:
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You might be correct in saying that Telkodemonopolies' WiMax sucks, considering that Telkodemonopolies so far has the only commercial deployment of fixed WiMax currently available in SA, unless you are one of the 750 guinea pigs testing MWeb's WiMax pilot network?

The solution for Telkodemonopolies is obvious - deploy considerably more WiMax base-stations and the contention you mentioned will drastically decrease.
Rooi Willie said:
DSL and Fibre are the only real broadband technologies available. The radio alternatives just cannot compete, even future technologies, due to the contention for speed and bandwidht experienced at the edge :(
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There are currently more wireless broadband customers in SA, than there are Telkodemonopolies ADSL customers, which seems to suggest that Telkodemonopolies has done a piss poor job of competing with the wireless network operators - especially considering that Telkodemonopolies launched ADSL in 2002 when MyWireless and iBurst and HSDPA were not yet available, and that Telkodemonopolies basically had close to 100% of broadband customers by the gonads for several years - except those using wifi [WISPs].
 
we as public have been lied to so much it's difficult to believe
 
ic said:
The solution for Telkodemonopolies is obvious - deploy considerably more WiMax base-stations and the contention you mentioned will drastically decrease.
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But do we really want more towers mushrooming up. They should already have started rolling out fibre and here they are aiming for 10Mbps DSL by 2011. I think wireless is a great technology where fixed line is not an option but to punt it as the only viable alternative when they are the ones that screwed up... I just don't know if that is right.
 
Prometheus said:
But do we really want more towers mushrooming up. They should already have started rolling out fibre and here they are aiming for 10Mbps DSL by 2011. I think wireless is a great technology where fixed line is not an option but to punt it as the only viable alternative when they are the ones that screwed up... I just don't know if that is right.
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That's like asking whether consumers want new cell towers in areas where there is insufficient coverage, then opposing the construction of new cell towers whilst simultaneously complaining about no reception...:rolleyes:

Wireless broadband is currently the only alternative to Telkodemonopolies' pathetic ADSL, personally I would prefer it if Telkodemonopolies did not have access to WiMax spectrum - the beast already has a monopoly over ADSL, and there are many more deserving companies that could do a whole lot better than Telkodemonopolies where WiMax is concerned, sadly Poison Ivy is the reality that we are forced to put up with...
 
ic said:
That's like asking whether consumers want new cell towers in areas where there is insufficient coverage, then opposing the construction of new cell towers whilst simultaneously complaining about no reception...:rolleyes:

Wireless broadband is currently the only alternative to Telkodemonopolies' pathetic ADSL, personally I would prefer it if Telkodemonopolies did not have access to WiMax spectrum - the beast already has a monopoly over ADSL, and there are many more deserving companies that could do a whole lot better than Telkodemonopolies where WiMax is concerned, sadly Poison Ivy is the reality that we are forced to put up with...
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Don't get me wrong here. As I said it's a great technology. Unfortunately we don't have any alternatives for cell towers but we do have alternatives for broadband. I would much rather have fixed line access, in fact there's one less than a meter away from me but the scum want +R300 just to activate it. Now they want to clutter up the landscape to fix the problem when they are the problem.
 
When fixed line adsl access becomes cheaper, the cap is multiplied by 10(or gotten rid of), then i'll rejoice. I live in a big town, near a big city, i don't want wireless, i want a hard line in, its the best perfermance adsl, there's no reason i should go for wireless. Streaming sux, there's downtime. Have you tried gaming on wireless? It's like going to a brothel without your penis.
No rejoicing for me just yet. Cheaper broadband is coming, its on the horizon, so much competition.....bleh.
 
These stories are hardly news anymore. This company is planning to launch this product. That company is doing that. We will soon see cheaper broadband blah blah blah. It has been soon ever since Telkom supposedly lost their monopoly. iBurst launched over two years ago and despite not having a price decrease during this time neither it nor adsl offers much more value over the other. I suppose they never needed to decrease the price because even with some Telkom price decreases not much has changed and it's still just as expensive.

When somebody (Neotel?) actually launches a product with value then I'll rejoice. Until then I'm going into hibernation not caring about soon this and soon that and imminent this and imminent that...
 
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