EASSy goes live on Friday

Call me when the biggest advancement in broadband speed we've seen in the last 10 years happens and we're not still pitifully behind the rest of the world.
 
My bet is uncapped prices are gonna stay the same for now but ISPs will give u less shaping. Even though there's more bandwidth, I doubt prices on EASSY will be much lower than seacom as it also has to recoup it investment but since telkom has a stake, maybe top tier providers like IS and telkom will compete on high cap or uncapped level.
 
We might be seeing new pricing & prepaid data from Neotel in September 2010. Will not hold my breath, but it is about time they reduce their data prices. Surely IPC pricing is not factored into their pricing.
 
So does anyone know where the POP's will be? Will there be one in Cape Town or will our ISP's still need to get backhaul bandwidth all the way to JHB, increasing latency.
 
i don't care for the price drop... i'm happy to pay the R1000 or so per month for my 4 meg uncapped shaped and line rental... but to have this unshaped would be great.
 
a-person said:
i don't care for the price drop... i'm happy to pay the R1000 or so per month for my 4 meg uncapped shaped and line rental... but to have this unshaped would be great.
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lol you are crazy or really rich dude....

I want 1gbps unshaped uncapped for R 1000 am month ...
 
zain76 said:
I doubt prices on EASSY will be much lower than seacom as it also has to recoup it investment but since telkom has a stake,
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Recent article on MyBB pegged EASSy STM1 IRU at about 30% cheaper than same on SEACOM. In my book, a 30% price drop counts as "much lower" ...
 
The_Librarian said:
In the short term prices will remain as is, but in the long term we should be seeing another round of price reductions.

Don't get your hopes up too high though.
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Agree! :) But still nice to hav more B/W
 
On which Friday it comes online?
I'll celebrate it with a cup of tea! Yay.
 
ajax said:
Forgive me then if this sounds sarcastic but couldn't this have been planned and put in place beforehand??
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The whole scene doesn't make sense.
SEACOM wants to recover their investment within the first 5 years of the cables 25 year lifespan. How can one do this with 10% utilisation of the resource?
If we are currently at 10% for both SEACOM and EASSY, why another cable, WACS with even more bandwidth and on top of it there is talk of a 4th cable.
 
markings said:
The whole scene doesn't make sense.
SEACOM wants to recover their investment within the first 5 years of the cables 25 year lifespan. How can one do this with 10% utilisation of the resource?
If we are currently at 10% for both SEACOM and EASSY, why another cable, WACS with even more bandwidth and on top of it there is talk of a 4th cable.
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Remember who monopolised the undersea cables in the past?

Remember all the excuses for high prices in the past?

Each operator (VC, MTN, Neotel, CellC, Telkom, etc) now wants the own dedicated connectivity to the outside world and do not want to be dependant on another local party for this.

We still are hopelessly under-resourced with international connectivity, as can be witnessed by the latest Seacom saga, so the more pipes into SA, the better.

The BIG one that will be the final nail in SAT-3's price coffin is WACS; that be a big mother!

The next hurdle for reduced consumer prices is not another undersea cable but the link back into the national internet grid via Telkom's IPC.

Together with LLU, this is what will be of the most benefit to all us ADSL users!!!
 
Come on folks, is 1Mbit + 10Gb for R200pm asking too much?? That would be just up my alley
 
bah i'll believe rumors of improvement when i see it
 
if mweb can jus change all users to unshaped that would be great.lol
 
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