Idea For some isp comany

[klasvaakie]

With the new Seacom line in South Africa, from what I have read is that the reason why we dont have such a major drop in ISP prices is purely due to telkom being the only way to transport that bandwith to the ISP? So, assuming I am not a total idiot and I completely misunderstood the argument...the solution is very simple.

Mntnzini has many features such as lovely animal and birdlife, beautiful plantlife, the ocean close by and the one that is most relevant...office complexes. In the long run, establishing a centre there and then laying your own line (the isp who takes the iniative) to the seacom landing site will in the long run pay off due to you being able to undercut EVERY SINGLE ISP IN THE COUNTRY, thus, ensuring your company's success. In fact, I am sure I cant be the only person who saw this truly obvious solution, so this should either have been ready or being implemented as I write this...unless of course if I misunderstood the rediculous arguments...if not and I am the only one, please take my idea for free...as long as you can offer us some cheaper freaking bandwith.

 

[Pilgrim]

Good idea, BUT: How do you connect your ISP to the ADSL network? You still need to pay insane prices for IPConnect to telscum

 

[LazyLion]

Would Seacom allow you to connect directly when they have an agreement with Neotel? Not sure. But ja... you still have to connect to the rest of the country from there... and you would be renting other people's cables to get your bandwidth to the major centers. So no savings really.

 

[ponder]

So, assuming I am not a total idiot and I completely misunderstood the argument...the solution is very simple.

Sorry could not resist but you still have to get your traffic from mntunzini to the rest of south africa. No savings.

 

[rorz0r]

Basically what you're saying is instead of
Home<--->ISP<-------------------------------->Seacom
You want to go:
Home<---------------------------------->ISP<->Seacom
?

 

[kilos]

Excellent idea klaasvaakie, BUT how would you distribute all that bandwidth to consumers from Mtunzini ? \
Fiber from where ? ADSL from where ? Oh dear leading to Telkom or Neotel

 

[klasvaakie]

Then I completely misunderstood how things work it seems. I always thought that via our adsl line we connect to our isp...and they dont incur a cost for this seeing as we the consumer pay for the line rental. As far as I understood the argument...the bandwith the isp's buy and then resell to us is also delivered via telkom from whatever international cable they are buying from...this part is what I thought was the argument why prices are so high. So, my thought was to eliminate telkom delivering the bandwith to the isp and that this should actually bring prices down. But somehow I guess I missed a piece of key information.