Neology co-founder Roelf Diedericks, well known and respected in Internet circles, says that they envisage a dramatic decrease in the cost of broadband access as the ‘access’ portion is now freely available to all players, thus stimulating competition.
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Basic ‘hotspot’ Internet access from Neology will cost users R 50-00 for three days with a usage limit of 150 MB. Weekly access, which will supply users with 500 MB of usage, is priced at R 150-00 and monthly access with a 3 GB usage limit is priced at R 350-00.
These prices compete very favorable with all commercial offerings currently available in the market, and Neology expects a good take-up of this service.
Hrm.. 3GB seems a bit expensive if you ask me considering the access/last mile is suppose to free. I mean dsl 384kbps + 3GB (cybersmart) = R370. 2ndly why do they compare it for good pricing with commercial offerings when it is overpriced somewhat. Then again they don't say how isp's are providing internet access on this network.(isp backhaul..)
A step in the right direction, but they should offer some free access to the internet (like supplying a certain amount of free water)
Wow. Sounds worthwhile, and it covers my area. Will this affect the WUG guys at all?
Pricing is way too expensive. Why can't they implement the Google mesh all the way like Google did it. R350 eish eina. Still so far out of whack with international markets.
Pricing is way too expensive. Why can't they implement the Google mesh all the way like Google did it. R350 eish eina. Still so far out of whack with international markets.
Please don't make a whooo! haaa! when we already have "Pig" and this offering is just another "Pig" dished up a little different. Anything less than what is the global norm should be scorned with the utmost contempt. Any interest, even a little will encourage these fools to think up substandard offerings at grossly overpriced tarrifs. You know what they say about the weakest link?. Even if you are excited. Don't show it cause we will all suffer longer because of just one idiot!![]()