Is uncapped broadband on its way out?

As so many have said, if bandwidth was just more affordable - there wouldnt be a need for uncapped packages. Or - as others have said, if everyone was uncapped - the light users and heavy users would balance out.
 
Get Telkom to drop their prices (surely the local infrastructure was paid off years ago!) and the scene will be set for a true {supply} vs {demand} = [price] scenario...
 
uncapped = CEO drives a BMW 5 Series
capped = CEO drives a Maserati Quattroporte

Large companies management / directors should be happy with putting bread on their table like the rest of us instead of having money for yaughts
 
There was agreement among many keynote speakers and panellists that telcos needed to move away from selling raw data access towards providing services as well as entering the applications space.
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ISP's trying to follow the lead of wireless providers in cashing in on the application space at the cost of consumer experience. They're dumb-pipes, like water and electricity! I don't want added value, I'll find that for myself.
 
Perhaps the draconian speakers should retire, and not try to drag SA back into the past with them.
 
So lets recap... At the start when MWEB launched the uncapped adsl , we were told it is "unsustainable" or in the common tongue , we hope you fail and burn for the rest of your life because our cash cow is gone. Now after many months and after MWEB has reached 70 000 users , and the country is enjoying more adsl freedom, and it seems as if MWEB is going for market share and growing each time on of these clowns open their mouths. They are now seeing that their plans to milk us forever has failed, but please feel free to come and milk my bull named Norman as much as you want.

They have failed, THEY know it, WE know this , yet the uneducated people DONT. Lets look at it like this, if everyone was educated enough , we would all have telkom adsl land lines, and only because we have to and an uncapped adsl account. In the ideal world we would have no need to Telkom. Lets be honest here, the person who said his parents/grand-parents only use 1 gig a month, honestly go and sit with them and let them get to grips with the internet. Sit with them and let them discover Youtube. Show them how to REALLY make use on the internet , that one gig will be gone very quickly. If they are one 1 gig per month and on a 512k line , show them that dropping line speed to 384k per month and the saving on that can go towards getting uncapped 384k adsl.

The only people who are complaining are those who never thought that we would EVER have uncapped adsl in SA. Now they are wrong and they have no more clients so they will do their very best best to go about banning uncapped adsl so that they can get back into buisness. Well done mweb ...again... Their marketing was brilliant , Magazines/books/radio/tv they did it all so that they made sure people knew of it. This was not a case of selling someone else's adsl packages as was mostly the case , they sold their own. Now they are very strong , way stronger than NEO-Fail.

In short, you have milked us long enough our collective nipples are sore, mweb offered us a nipple cream and as much grass as we can eat.. Now you are left to stand on your side of the fence and too look at the brown spot that apears each time we move our tails.

Bye.
 
Some of these 'speakers' don't even have products or proper websites but they want to raise their antiquated opinions. ****.
 
jes said:
Is uncapped broadband on its way out?

A number of speakers at this year's SATNAC conference advocated the termination of 'all you can eat' bandwidth packages
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sad-pandas say retire them uncapped, i wonder if some isps like afrihost is going to join the chorus looking at their draconian shaping laws. what we need to retire is those who feel that downloading X per month is an achievement and should be done competitively.
 
This baffles my mind. Seriously... ?

This low-penetration, high-cost to the consumer ADSL model with line rentals and R60/gb and all this **** is just far more profitable to Telkom than building more infrastructure to attract more consumers which would even things out.

Reduce the cost, increase penetration, and put a threshold of 300GB aimed at the 1TB/month users?

Valis said:
I think that pretty much says it all.
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Yeah, nuff said.

It really is time for Telkom to take a hike.

VIVA MWEB!!
 
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It seems like I'm the only one who agrees with these people. I've not read the article, but I agree that capped options are better.

I'd much prefer unshaped fast broadband, where I pay for how much I use, than have shaped and throttled internet, where I can potentially download much more.

I don't leave my torrents running when I go to work. When I want something, I torrent it after hours usually, when I'm at home, and it torrents fast. Also, when I want to stream a video off the web, I do not want to wait for it to buffer.

The way I see it you can have fast reliable internet, or have uncapped. I don't think you can have it both ways, unless you are prepared to pay.

Take a look at axxess' R19/GB unshaped offer. Now that isn't bad in my opinion.

In my opinion, the best option would be to bill per MB used, but make it cheaper to use after hours than at peak times.
 
What a load of toss. ISPs PAY PER MBPS/year.. whether there are 1 or 100 users using it. And @ 0100 in the morning when all that bandwidth is idle... why not give it to someone who needs it?
 
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