Cheaper Internet access is coming soon

I refuse to believe that SEACOM will not have a dramatic effect on prices, even in the short term.

Sure, the mom-and-pop type internet accounts (1GB, 2GB, 3GB) will still cost largely the same, because the margins built in are very small. But the niche products like high cap and uncapped 512k/4Mb will come down in price by at least the 30% expected.

You can't tell me that bacon sandwiches will still cost R100 each when pork prices in Namibia go from R50 per pig to R20 per pig. Somebody will find a way to cross the desert.

...No, I have not been taking strong medication.
 
Garyvdh said:
Then why have they made two announcements in the last week? :confused:
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They have? The wholesale ADSL bandwidth thing? That's not forward looking, that is looking back at something they already did. What other announcement was there?
 
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ld13 said:
They have? The wholesale ADSL bandwidth thing? That's not forward looking, that is looking back at something they already did. What other announcement was there?
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the drop in local bandwidth pricing
 
http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=73112

Meanwhile, Telkom MD Pinky Moholi said the group would probably opt for niche areas in the mobile telecommunications market now that it had been freed from the trade restraints of its shareholder agreement with Vodacom and Vodafone. The restraint was lifted when Telkom sold its 15% stake in Vodacom to Vodafone.

“We are not looking at being a fourth licence provider,” Moholi said. “It is more a case of looking at niche markets such as wireless broadband or even voice services.”
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Published: 2009/06/11 06:35:42 AM

Maybe somebody should tell the MD he is not supposed to be making statements? :rolleyes:
 
Pinky is a "she"... I met her recently (after her appointment as MD of Telkom SA) and she will kick butt!! Probably the most astute appointment made in Telkom's short history.
 
Garyvdh said:
the drop in local bandwidth pricing
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That is backward looking/stating of facts, was reported on here before they even 'made' any statements.

Garyvdh said:
Maybe somebody should tell the MD he is not supposed to be making statements? :rolleyes:
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Depends on what he is making statements about. Not everything is a 'taboo' subject, they are allowed to comment like crazy on certain things/topics that is specifically excluded from the closed period.
 
ld13 said:
That is backward looking/stating of facts, was reported on here before they even 'made' any statements.

Depends on what he is making statements about. Not everything is a 'taboo' subject, they are allowed to comment like crazy on certain things/topics that is specifically excluded from the closed period.
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Hmm, seems very selective to me... and not too stringent.
 
seacom said:
Hi, I've been following your discussions regarding the Seacom cable for the past month and some of you raise some interesting points. Though I'm not at liberty to comment further on the BW pricing issue, as Seacom has no influence on how ISPs and carriries choose to release the capacity purchased from us. I would like to extend an invitation to you all to come and engage with us on the Seacom Blog that has been launched.
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Guys, please make sure that you join up on the Seacom Discussion site.

And get your ISP to sign up there as well!
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
Well if Laurie or anyone would like to confirm/figure out what kind of savings most "MyADSL-type" customers can look for, say in a 10GB international package?

I pay my line rental separately to Telkom through their Closer package, so I know this isn't the entire cost. I pay for international bandwidth ALONE, around R500 at the moment. So how much would you expect a plain 10GB international account to cost with Seacom in the market? At current prices lets say R490 - 30% it would be around R350. Sigh, this isn't exactly amazing. An entire new cable with, for our needs, unlimited international bandwidth and 10GB per month is still too expensive with some line rental thrown in?

Well then too bad for the other ISP's if someone can afford a direct pipe and the IRU agreement with Seacom.
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Ditto.
 
Seacom and wireless?
Hi Pilgrim,

Here's something I was thinking about.

Is it possible to run a line of wireless routers/relays from the landing point of the seacom cable, to the various wireless groups?

Is it possible to start a service, using the telkom and seacom lines, to a wireless router/relay, serving the wireless group international sites, as openweb does with it's openrouter proxy?

If so, what costs are involved? I know from bookmarking a discussion on wireless, that a kit for each wireless member is about 1.5 to 2k. But what are the relay station costs?
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Pilgrim never replied. Any one else with a solution?...or you are you content to bitch and and moan on this forum, yet take no constructive action for the course that your lives take?

Life is simple...Revolution evolved into unions...we don't need to walk on the streets, like the government wants us to...to expend that excess frustration...

Create a new, NON PROFIT COMPANY.

Done.

No more begging...

Raise yourself...

Join others and become the ISP...

How many bitch and moan?

Get together...155 seacom done.
 
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air said:
sorry if has posted before, from http://www.seacom.mu/faq/faq.html

How will SEACOM make money?

Let us use an analogy to illustrate this. Look at a high-rise building which is the equivalent of the cable. You have the ability to sell multiple units and each one of those units is the procurement of bandwidth by a customer. In the early years, SEACOM will only sell say 20 percent of them and this will serve to recover the project costs until we pass the break-even line. The remaining units will then move SEACOM into the profitable category. You can also do a combination of selling and leasing, as you would with condo apartments.

Typically, what happens in telecoms is that prices go down as volumes go up. Over time, customers may be spending the same amount of money, but they're always securing more capacity, because the unit pricing is coming down. SEACOM's unit price from day one has been 90 to 95 percent cheaper than the equivalent unit price of satellite. Going forward, it will continue to lower as the volumes go up.

Some people are saying that the price of broadband won't come down as dramatically as people hope. It will depend on many factors. There are three parts to getting the service to the end user. One is the last-miles solution, and that can be DSL, 3G or WIMAX. Second is the national network, which is made of different backbones that can be microwave, fiber optics or satellite regional transmission. The final element is international bandwidth, which can be submarine fiber optic cables or satellite transmission. SEACOM is focused on the last one and will bring that price down by 90 to 95 percent.

That leaves the other two components, which also need to come down in price. In many countries, the national backbone and the last mile connectivity aren't as robust or adequate as the end user would like them to be. When SEACOM brings down the international bandwidth cost substantially, it economically justifies further investment into these other two components, national and last mile. SEACOM can be seen as a catalyst for these other investments.
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Ditto.
 
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