International capacity uptake exceeds forecasts

“This heralds a new age of bandwidth competition, access and affordability for Africa to aggressively compete on the world stage. More cables will increase the available international bandwidth, as well as the level of reliability of international links,” he concludes.
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We can only hope.
 
The link at the bottom that supposed to point to here is broken , it points towards itself.
 
Unbelievably exciting, but how is this bandwidth going get to our homes if Telkom charge so much for it's IP-Connect product.
 
Dusk said:
The link at the bottom that supposed to point to here is broken , it points towards itself.
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Yip, i also got stuck in the loop, it took me twenty minutes to break free.
 
so they have lll this bandwidth and no excuse for exorbitant pricing..
 
well i think this is excellent just see what the Seacom has done so far!!!!
Afrihost,Screamer,Digichilli,Saol i cant wait to see what emerges once the extra three cables land!!!!
 
Will be completely and utterly brilliant. Hopefully 4 meg uncapped will come down to R500-600 or if not then hopefully we can just get Huge caps like 150gigs/m on a 4meg
 
I would love to meet the guys who did the forecasts....

The uptake of international bandwidth was always going to be huge in this country given that we've been bandwidth starved for so long.
 
ToxicBunny said:
I would love to meet the guys who did the forecasts....

The uptake of international bandwidth was always going to be huge in this country given that we've been bandwidth starved for so long.
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Exactly and along with their "so called great pricing" they've had an influx of clients coming on board with them, whom are now also cancelling.

Neotel's bottleneck (I feel) is not from the cables, but rather because of their network being saturated.

Do they now expect clients not to bitch anymore because of constant disconnects and slow speeds because of this article?
 
Next year feels like a very long time from now :( I wish I could time travel to 2 years from now, when all the cables have landed and 8 - 24mb uncapped was at R500p/m
 
I think last mile access is becoming increasingly relevant: International bandwidth is coming in for cheaper than before - even starting to rival local bandwidth prices if my info is correct - and national project from InfraCo and Neotel/MTN/Vodacom is making progress. But LLU is not likely to happen anytime soon, and wireless technologies will only take us so far (WiMax was not the silver bullet after all).
 
They will just invent a new excuse to keep prices high, if not raise them.

Price reductions from SEACOM has not benefited us, but IS announced a HIKE in prices instead of the expected reduction in prices -> excuse me, but didn't the SEACOM saving far exceed the ESKOM hike ?!?!?!?!? Who stole the money and lied to the people?
 
jak3 said:
Unbelievably exciting, but how is this bandwidth going get to our homes if Telkom charge so much for it's IP-Connect product.
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Thats EXACTLY the problem. International Bandwidth will become (if not already) a lot cheaper than local Bandwidth.
 
apogeeza said:
They will just invent a new excuse to keep prices high, if not raise them.

Price reductions from SEACOM has not benefited us, but IS announced a HIKE in prices instead of the expected reduction in prices -> excuse me, but didn't the SEACOM saving far exceed the ESKOM hike ?!?!?!?!? Who stole the money and lied to the people?
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IS announced a HIKE in hosting prices, due to your friendly neighborhood eskom power. nothing to do with bandwidth.
 
Rabbit7766 said:
IS announced a HIKE in hosting prices, due to your friendly neighborhood eskom power. nothing to do with bandwidth.
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Time to get off the grid then, when will the government allow us to get rebates on providing power back to the grid? And not this stupid minimum amount that we must qualify for first before we can.
 
Small steps first. We cant jump from 4 meg uncapped at R2699 to 24 meg uncapped at R500, not in 3 years anyway. I personally think if they upgrade all 384 and 512 users to 1meg and have a 512 as a ultra budget package to spread broadband use to the poorer parts of the country we will be heading in the right direction. We need a bigger consumer base before we can expexct internet like countries in Europe or America. Remember we only have 5 milllion broadband users some countries have over 50 million. Its all in the numbers. the higher the amount of users, the more companies invest in upgrading systems the better things become for everyone.
 
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