Internet, 3G uptake to boom in SA

[rpm]

http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=481

 

[ProAsm]

"The good news is that rapidly falling broadband service prices will have a significant impact on the rate of penetration of broadband in the market, but the flip side is that the overall market will remain relatively backward compared to developed countries in the short- to medium-term," says Tertia Smit, a BMI-T analyst and co-author of the report.

Short, medium or long term, exactly where everyone is gonna find this magic bandwidth to fit everyone on I'd love to know.
Rapidly falling "broadband" prices will be driven down to R75 pm for a 48kbit connection... S-E-R-I-O-U-S

 

[Gig]

Hi All

Personally I dont have much hope for ADSL to drop too low. Most people ignore the fact that adsl is not just the line but the ISP cost as well. This makes your entry level cost around a minimum of R 545 Ex. (270 adsl, 76 line, +-200 isp). This is still too much for subscribers. Also, 3G is not doing that well. Sentech is said to be based on 3G and that fell over, Vodacom has limited coverage and connectivity and there is no guaranted service (contracts wont allow it) alhough they will sell it on a 24 month service. So, where to from here.
I would be impressed if we could have a service that allows 24/7 access to anyone or any home for less that R 200 all in. But, thats still a long way of.
China has 8 Mbits for $30 to $40 for the average business. We still struggling on 512 and heading to 1 Mb. I dunno, doesnt seem to hopeful. Even if the lower te price we still gonna be billed for extra service or bandwidth. Its a fat cow with huge udders, they wont shoot it in the head even if the Vet (ICASA) tells them to.

And ProAsm you right in saying its S-E-R-I-O-U-S. A Serious lack of patriotism!

 

[bb_matt]

Short, medium or long term, exactly where everyone is gonna find this magic bandwidth to fit everyone on I'd love to know.
Rapidly falling "broadband" prices will be driven down to R75 pm for a 48kbit connection... S-E-R-I-O-U-S

I see this as a regular concern of yours ProAsm, what figures do you have as to our capacity ?

I'm not sure even what to look for in connection with that, or whether I would fully grok the implications if I did.

Can you maybe put together some figures to give a better idea of the amount of international bandwidth this country has available to it, assuming that Telkom release it as required ?

 

[eye_suc]

Those prices ProAsm is referring to, are they from Sentech? And what happened about that launch from them we were expecting today? Still underway?

 

[TMoose]

Hi All

Personally I dont have much hope for ADSL to drop too low. Most people ignore the fact that adsl is not just the line but the ISP cost as well.

The ISP costs isn't an obstacle anymore, the real problem with ADSL in SA is the line rental from Telkom that shouldn't be charged in the first place.

 

[sewercyde]

Who actually digs 3G?Would be interested to know. I mean I know everyone is on Telkom's case,but Hellkom owns 50% of Vodacom(http://www.vodacom.co.za/about/profile_shareholders.aspx) So My hatred extends to Voda unfortunately. Just my 2c use don't use it

l8rz

 

[sewercyde]

http://www.vodacom.co.za/about/profile_subsidiaries.aspx
See!

 

[ProAsm]

Bandwidth is a problem and unless the SNO has something up its sleeve, SA is in trouble.
It is rumoured they have locally 17000km of 600 mbit fibre backbone in place, internationally is anyone's guess.

the real problem with ADSL in SA is the line rental from Telkom that shouldn't be charged in the first place.

There is one small obstacle no-one ever considers in SA and that is copper theft.
Until you solve that problem and judging by the conviction rate, line rentals will never go away.
Its also one of the reasons the loop is not unbundled as who will then replace and maintain it... the ISP's - not a chance.
Nuff said.

And what happened about that launch from them we were expecting today

As I said in another topic - you dont want to know

 

[bwana]

There is one small obstacle no-one ever considers in SA and that is copper theft.

Copper theft is one thing but thats covered in the r87 that everyone pays for their line. What the majority contend is that Telkom shouldn't be charging us the additional ADSL charges (ie the r477 for the 512 package). After all its still the same copper pair.