Experience with new HSDPA

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SoTrue

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Did I miss something, but I haven't seen any feedback from forum members burning the terrabytes with their new HSDPA cards?
 
because burning terrabytes require a reagant... burning money. This is a rare item that is farmed once only in distant lands once per month. This is a rare item and people dont just want to burn the money :)
 
Maybe we can look at it if they charge 1-2c a meg instead of 2 rand.
 
yup :) sorry SoTrue if I sounded a little rude, but I am just saying its very expensive.
 
Can anyone shed some light on the diferrences between this and 3G, despite the obvious one ie, speed?
 
Latency - I believe latency is down to arouond 100ms with HSDPA- can someone please post some latency figures? Combined with the fact that the Cape Town GGSN is routing traffic to Telkom not IS JHB anymore should improve our international experience.
 
hmm, never knew they were IS in the first place.. lol
 
Vodacom have/had two ISP - I am not sure how they split the traffic - I think it was based somehow on APN. I was always routed via IS but I noticed connections to Vodacom websites where accessed via IS and Worldonline (a while back when I last looked)
 
I have tried it.. but dont like the idea of R599 for 1gig! @ 1.8MegaBit . .. it will take you 75 Minutes to kill that gig.
 
If this new wireless service from the mobile phone networks can be faster than a direct DSL wire into your PC then isn't this proof enough that Telkom are short changing its customers?!
 
Price is the issue so not many people are gonna 'burn the terabytes'...hell they'll be scared to burn MEGAbytes at R2/meg :(
 
It would seem that the uptake of HSDPA (and 3G for that matter) is going to very slow, because of high cost of use? Don't they teach one in Marketing or Economics 101 about supply and demand principles? Maybe it is a case of too many engineers and accountants in top management?
 
I'm afraid Economists are taught that prices should be set at the maximum level that the market can bear.
I have always argued that one should rather aim for a higher volume of sales - i.e. pile 'em high and sell 'em cheap!
 
SoTrue said:
Did I miss something, but I haven't seen any feedback from forum members burning the terrabytes with their new HSDPA cards?
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they propably got to their cap before they could give us feedback. hehe
 
Hey, V3G, what did Vodacom just switch on in Pretoria Central? Suddenly my cell started reflecting the "3G and HSDPA enabled" sign with the tower name and the speed on my HSDPA card has dramatically improved.

Thanks anyway

Bruce:D
 
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