Fibre versus Wireless Broadband

[MickeyD]

To all those punting the R197/m fibre deal you need to take into account the hidden costs. The infrastructure and cabling cost is built into the cost to develop the property and added into the cost per erf.

 

[LaviniaHeks]

With all of your sarcasm here I'm thinking you're getting way ahead of yourself. Here is another thread for you. Suddenly not so clear cut as trading a license as you claim. There are 4 types of licenses apart from the national operator licenses.

I know exactly what the different licenses mean, if they're available and how to acquire them. Dominic's explaination was spot-on in the thread you linked to, btw. Did you not understand his post?

But don't worry about my side of the deal (getting you a license). That's a done deal. I've actually got a bit of a problem whom I'm going to use as a few people have already made their licenses available for purchase in the past and if I pick the one over the other, it's going to create some bad vibes. But that's my problem, I guess.

(But, I must say, I'm getting a bit worried. For someone who's already worked out the retail pricing of a national FTTH network to be between R300 and R450 per month, which meant building quite complex business cases with all the costs and what not, you seem to lack pretty standard information on how to put the basics in place for your multi-billion rand network company.)

Probably just startup-jitters, happens to the best, so don't panic. It's now up to you and bobcat to get your company going.

It's probably confidential, but maybe you can tell us who your backers are? You know the guys who you're so sure are going to give you and madcat the few billion you need to get going?

So, don't stray off-topic here. YOU promised all of us FTTH if you can get a license.

So here's an idea, get me the license to do this and me and Madcat will get the investors and roll this out for R300-R450, not the thousands everybody thinks it will cost.

You've got that, so let's get going. We really can't wait.

 

[LaviniaHeks]

Guess we'll soon see if we are just talking bulls**t or if it was the other operators milking the market all along.

Exciting, is it not?

Mybroadband members like yourself and madcat proving all these guys wrong with your R300-R450 FTTH product. Super

Stop the agony already and tell us when and where you'll be launching?

 

[LaviniaHeks]

I don't know why mybb hasn't reported on this yet but oh look someone is in the process of doing exactly this.

Mybroadband did actually report on it. Surprised as a serious player in the FTTH market you forgot about this effort using sewers. They're your direct competitors after all.

But these guys are not in your and fatcat's league. They've only managed to raise between R5B and R6B even though they indicated a typical FTTH network requires closer to R15B to R18B, which are the numbers you feel confident you're going to get from investors, right? As I posted above, I think you can get going with closer to R10B.

It's clear i3 are not as far advanced as you are in their planning. Although they got the money, they cannot give a retail price yet as they clearly must do a LOT of work before they can calculate it.

The mere fact that you could already make your pricing public (R300-R450) means you're at a much more advanced stage than they are.

I suspect once Andrew (who ran a few successful network operators in the past - but can't even calculate a price as easily as you ) hear about your and madhat's effort, their fibre is never going to come out the toilet.

If you'll pardon the pun, I suspect you've got them *****scared.

 

[MickeyD]

I don't know why mybb hasn't reported on this yet but oh look someone is in the process of doing exactly this
http://www.techcentral.co.za/exclusive-mega-project-to-bring-fibre-to-sa-homes/21723/
oh and look, "It will be competitively priced next to DSL"
Guess we'll soon see if we are just talking bulls**t or if it was the other operators milking the market all along.

Done 2 months ago already... http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...Home-planned-for-South-Africa?highlight=sewer

 

[Ludjer]

silly thread
You cant compare the 2.
wireless will always be behind fiber it has packet loss, instability and is effected by weather harshly.
Its silly if you have the option to chose between the 2 then fibre rapes wirless but for cost reasons and as a Temporary solution wirless is ok but for long term i think it would be better to roll out fiber cause sooner or later everyone will need fat gb stable lines for all the connections like home automation, hdTV, radio. Wirless wont cut it in terms of stability and aswell as on the higher end speed. you cant get effective GBps wirless with fiber you can easily get it look at big cities overseas FTTH is becoming common.
Gbit connections in sweden is like R1000 -> R2000 rand for residential houses.