iBurst beefs up coverage

They should rather focus on beefing up their existing towers and customer care!
 
“Improved coverage in KwaZulu-Natal means that growing numbers of Durbanites are replacing their snail-paced dial-up Internet connections and switching to hair-raising iBurst speeds up to 17 times faster than dial-up and up to 3 times faster than 3G,” iBurst said.
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HSDPA is an extension to the 3G-R99 standard, and the form of HSDPA currently available from both Vodacom and MTN runs at a maximum speed of 1.8Mbits/s, whereas iBurst SA's iBurst service currently runs at a maximum speed of 1Mbits/s, furthermore, last year, Vodacom allowed most Vodacom customers to exchange their existing vanilla-3G data cards for HSDPA data cards, so there will be very few Vodacom customers using vanilla-3G data cards.

So Thami Mtshali's statement about iBurst being "up to 3 times faster than 3G" sounds a lot like the tactics employed by Telkodemonopolies when claiming that its ADSL was much faster than HSDPA...:rolleyes:

Furthermore, iBurst SA's pricing for 2GB and less is much more expensive than Vodacom's 2GB and less pricing.

iBurst sounds like it is yet again trying to pull the wool over the eyes of unenlightened consumers.
“While we know that Isie Smuts would sit underneath the family portraits and listen to the radio, we don’t know how she would have taken to wireless broadband. However, it’s likely the children would have shown her how to download her husband’s emails from Winston Churchill,” joked Thami Mtshali, CEO of iBurst, about the Irene base station.
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I really don't know what Thami is trying to prove there - it's like saying 'before computers existed, cave-people would have thrown an iBurst modem into the nearest fire', although I'm sure there are many evolved people that still feel like throwing their iBurst modem into the nearest fire...
 
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LOL @ hair-raising speeds.

My 384k connection is faster and more reliable than iBurst was.
 
"By investing in additional wireless Internet infrastructure in Durban, iBurst is investing in the future because KwaZulu-Natal remains South Africa’s most populous province,” said Thami Mtshali, CEO of iBurst."

One extra base station on top of a small water tower covering about 4km2.....@@S holes.....

Vodacom should be embaressed to be associated with them.
 
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HSDPA is an extension to the 3G-R99 standard, and the form of HSDPA currently available from both Vodacom and MTN runs at a maximum speed of 1.8Mbits/s, whereas iBurst SA's iBurst service currently runs at a maximum speed of 1Mbits/s, furthermore, last year, Vodacom allowed most Vodacom customers to exchange their existing vanilla-3G data cards for HSDPA data cards, so there will be very few Vodacom customers using vanilla-3G data cards.

So Thami Mtshali's statement about iBurst being "up to 3 times faster than 3G" sounds a lot like the tactics employed by Telkodemonopolies when claiming that its ADSL was much faster than HSDPA...:rolleyes:

Furthermore, iBurst SA's pricing for 2GB and less is much more expensive than Vodacom's 2GB and less pricing.

iBurst sounds like it is yet again trying to pull the wool over the eyes of unenlightened consumers.I really don't know what Thami is trying to prove there - it's like saying 'before computers existed, cave-people would have thrown an iBurst modem into the nearest fire', although I'm sure there are many evolved people that still feel like throwing their iBurst modem into the nearest fire...
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I've seen a HSDPA connection @ 3.6Mbit/s
 
I am in Durban North and according to their coverage map my signal hasn't changed at all!
 
but why did you sell it to them if it was so bad in their area?
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Because...

a) cost effectiveness dictates it
b) Telkom diginet line is always down due to stolen cables, or goes PMA due to a rotten wet cable that Telkom refuses to fix.
c) cheaper than Diginet, even though the speed is much the same
 
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