International bandwidth and lower pricing

"EASSy, with a design capacity of 1.4 Tbps, is set to land in South Africa in mid-2010. This submarine cable system will run along the East Coast of Africa and therefore provide redundancy to the SEACOM cable."

Ok, my Afrikaans background is telling against me here.
I'm I right in saying that the whole of South Africa and parts of Africa waited with much anticipation for about 5 years for this SEACOM cable to save us from bandwidth hell and high prices and now, within a year, the cable is redundant, not needed, unwanted. The cable is going to be fired, laid off?

With all the cables coming and the bandwidth seemingly going to drop to lower than the Zim $, how the heck are all these people going to recover their moola?

They will have to give all of at least 5 uncapped account each and boost those speeds so that we can download TB/hour:p
 
RoMark said:
"EASSy, with a design capacity of 1.4 Tbps, is set to land in South Africa in mid-2010. This submarine cable system will run along the East Coast of Africa and therefore provide redundancy to the SEACOM cable."

Ok, my Afrikaans background is telling against me here.
I'm I right in saying that the whole of South Africa and parts of Africa waited with much anticipation for about 5 years for this SEACOM cable to save us from bandwidth hell and high prices and now, within a year, the cable is redundant, not needed, unwanted. The cable is going to be fired, laid off?

With all the cables coming and the bandwidth seemingly going to drop to lower than the Zim $, how the heck are all these people going to recover their moola?

They will have to give all of at least 5 uncapped account each and boost those speeds so that we can download TB/hour:p
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Bwahahahah !!!!

Your Afrikaans has failed you, redundancy in this context means that it will provide backup for when the other cable is down. I think that both cables will supply redundancy for each other. Normally the traffic will be split between the two lines... when one breaks then the other will take up the traffic.
 
Yes we all know that - Oh boy
Tell us something new Mr September - is Telkom going to decrease broadband costs and dedicated TDIS line costs.

Listen to your staff - listen to the people of South Africa
 
price per gig...whoever came up with this idea when hellkom were still testing adsl should be castrated...I mean really. Botswana can have uncapped adsl at affordable prices but we cant. Man, whoever came up with that idea should die of ghonorhea and burn in hell
 
No one says when these price cuts are gonna be here! SEACOM has been up for nearly 5 months now and I haven't seen any changes to my ISPs prices. When are all the local ISPs gonna reduce their prices? Im with Cybersmart btw...
 
Nerfherder said:
Bwahahahah !!!!

Your Afrikaans has failed you, redundancy in this context means that it will provide backup for when the other cable is down. I think that both cables will supply redundancy for each other. Normally the traffic will be split between the two lines... when one breaks then the other will take up the traffic.
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Thought I was going to "Slaan my naam met 'n plank":o

Sapper123 said:
No one says when these price cuts are gonna be here! SEACOM has been up for nearly 5 months now and I haven't seen any changes to my ISPs prices. When are all the local ISPs gonna reduce their prices? Im with Cybersmart btw...
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En waar kom jy vandaan? :confused::eek:

Then you must really spend more time. Prices on bandwidth packages are falling faster I can read posts.
If you haven't seen any changes at Cybersmart, you need a change in my humble opinion.:p
 
There is just too much interest in telecoms right now to not warrant healthy competition, good times ahead I say.
 
Agree with you. I'll go back and search the forum for some comments made a few months ago regarding price wars and how most folks shot a few of us down who dared to mention it. And where are we now?

Instead of raving over R70/Gb, we are now looking at (granted it's a special offer) Afrihost offering R29 per 2Gb top up.

Costs for uncapped accounts are way down.

So yes, competition has helped and it will continue to squeeze profit margins to the benefit of us consumers. However there will be some fallout and we could see some smaller ISPs crash and burn (or those with suspect business models)!

The big issue is still the additional line rental on ADSL lines.
 
moggie said:
Agree with you. I'll go back and search the forum for some comments made a few months ago regarding price wars and how most folks shot a few of us down who dared to mention it. And where are we now?

Instead of raving over R70/Gb, we are now looking at (granted it's a special offer) Afrihost offering R29 per 2Gb top up.

Costs for uncapped accounts are way down.

So yes, competition has helped and it will continue to squeeze profit margins to the benefit of us consumers. However there will be some fallout and we could see some smaller ISPs crash and burn (or those with suspect business models)!

The big issue is still the additional line rental on ADSL lines.
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Ja you see that last bit, its all Telkom, like the previous article mentioned, its the last gasp of the monopoly institution.

We cant really depend alot of the mobile operators to drive BW prices down either, its going to come down to the ISP's and guys like iBurst.
 
Moederloos said:
Costs have ALREADY dropped Mr CEO - just not within your own behemoth.
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Well I mean he doesn't REALLY need to drop anything, he controls the pipelines :)

I think over the coming months im going to get more agitated by the companies who DONT rely on Telkoms backbone to provide internet but keep the same pricing structures in order to profit more.

Luckily we have some real government interest in telecoms liberalization, so I think next year this time, the scene might be completely flip sided, where we are laughing at the yanks.
 
Sapper123 said:
No one says when these price cuts are gonna be here! SEACOM has been up for nearly 5 months now and I haven't seen any changes to my ISPs prices. When are all the local ISPs gonna reduce their prices? Im with Cybersmart btw...
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Switch ISPs. ISPs are like insurance companies, go for the cheapest one, they all suck anyway.
 
saffakanera said:
Well I mean he doesn't REALLY need to drop anything, he controls the pipelines :)

I think over the coming months im going to get more agitated by the companies who DONT rely on Telkoms backbone to provide internet but keep the same pricing structures in order to profit more.

Luckily we have some real government interest in telecoms liberalization, so I think next year this time, the scene might be completely flip sided, where we are laughing at the yanks.
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+1 omg that would be the day!
 
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