EASSy bandwidth here next month

[rpm]

EASSy bandwidth here within weeks

EASSy nearly completed with testing phase; commercial services here within the next few weeks

 

[Wall]

Great news, we need redundancy.

 

[marine1]

Please god this is better than Seacom and brings pricing down

 

[Zyzzyva]

How much bandwidth will be lit when it goes live? Seacom's initial capacity was somewhere around 80 gigs.

 

[DjStyles]

Awesome news. We need more competion to force pricing/value down even further.

 

[Bizkit87]

Maybe this is the start of TRUE uncapped UNSHAPED bandwidth?

We can hope...

 

[karnuffel]

Should make things interesting... maybe a nice drop in prices before xmas?

 

[DOOMIE61]

the more cables the better! this is great news

 

[Optimal01]

We should have more capacity, hopefully reliable redundancy now Telkom needs to get off their asses and get working on that scrap heap called the copper network

 

[rsd]

I wish there was competition in last mile.

It's great if we end up with ISPs charging R300 for 4meg uncapped in a year or so, but the R450 access charge still makes the total cost exorbitant.

This is going to be really good though. Redundancy and further price drops will be awesome.

 

[Pilgrim]

So, soon we will pay R125 for a phone line, R413 for the ADSL line, and then what? R10 for uncapped internet? R20? R100? Who cares, you still pay R538 just to have ADSL.

Until we get a second national operator to bring us landlines we will be stuck in the R538+ price range for proper internet in this country. Also, did Seacom have any effect on mobile and wisp pricing?

 

[DavidKinnes]

Not a moment too soon.

 

[w1z4rd]

Until we get a second national operator

Um.. Neotel?

 

[ajax]

So, soon we will pay R125 for a phone line, R413 for the ADSL line, and then what? R10 for uncapped internet? R20? R100? Who cares, you still pay R538 just to have ADSL.

+1
Since Seacom came online and bandwidth prices dropped, the line rental have become the stranglehold on broadband growth.

 

[Howardxxxx]

The only parasitic fly in the ointment is TELKOM!!!

 

[Pilgrim]

Um.. Neotel?

Neo- who?

Oh, you mean that big wisp? No, i meant we need a company that connects to their clients via landlines.

 

[DarkStreet]

Um.. Neotel?

I think he wanted a serious answer.

 

[unskinnybob]

MTN are involved? Fail.

 

[moabin]

Neo- who?

Oh, you mean that big wisp? No, i meant we need a company that connects to their clients via landlines.

wired is obviously better...but a stable wireless connection at 21mbps 3G like speeds: unshaped uncapped at R400...no brainer

 

[markings]

Why do all the cables land in Mtunzini? Isn't that a bit daft in terms of redundancy? A little terror activity, using nuclear, chemical or biological warfare could wipe out the infrastructure, or complicate the maintenance, for all the cables in one go.