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Pierneef

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Hi Guys

I refer todays mybroadband discussion on bitstream. Mweb CEO said that bitstream will not help if telkomdon't reduced prices. I think there was a golden opportunity for mwebto keep their 2mbps line price on R488-00 month and not to increase it to the current price of R599-00 a month. Mweb price are the most expensive than all other ISPs on R599 and Telkom R579-00. If mweb really want prices to come down they should have kept their 2mbps line on R488-00 and just introduced 1mbps on the old price of R349-00 as the price was for 384kbps.

What will happen if Telkom us a naked line will the ISPs not come with prices like R500 and above for their services? Make it impossible for customers to have access to internet? If we look at mobile prices for access to internet they start with R200 for 2GB. Will there be any benefit for the customer to have naked adsl? Because I do not trust the ISPs to be on there own. If mweb was really concern about the prices they could have kept 2mbps on R488-00 a month and not increase it to R599-00 a month. I am sceptical about naked adsl because ISPs can just increase their prices as they wish. Mweb want excuses for not give us a 2MBPS line of R488-00. Come on mweb give us as loyal customers a detailed report on what you will do if Telkom give us kaked adsl. How will we benefit as customers. When I changed to 2MBPS I asked MWeb Guy why is mweb R599-0 a month and his response was because mweb make provision for unthrottled line speeds. They do not throttle the line. But I cannot watch a dstv movie without buffering.

Regards
 
Your comments are highly inaccurate.

Firstly, the ADSL market is very liberalised, with lots of competition. If you don't like an ISP, there are plenty of other GOOD ones to choose from. Vote with your wallet. I also left MWEB because I found them too expensive. Afrihost is more my cup of tea.

Secondly, it's not the ISPs you shouldn't trust, but rather Telkom. The ISPs can only do so much, the rest is up to Telkom, ICASA, the DoC, and government. That's where the biggest problems and hurdles lie. We're just lucky that Telkom released a wholesale ADSL product to the market many years ago, making it possible to choose an ISP other than TelkomInternet. If they didn't, we'd still be stuck with 3GB accounts, and slow speeds. Thanks to the other ISP's, we now have uncapped, cheap high-cap accounts, faster line speeds, and cheaper prices.

Thirdly, naked ADSL has nothing to do with ISPs, but rather with Telkom. Basically it means that Telkom won't bundle a compulsory analogue voice service, if all you want is ADSL. If we ever do see naked ADSL, Telkom will most likely make the cost big enough that it makes no difference in terms of price whether you choose Naked ADSL, or "clothed" ADSL. In any case, Naked ADSL is still a far way off - we're talking anywhere from 6 months to many years.
 
Take your tinfoil hat off, the competition between the ISP's is hectic. They will drop their prices as low as they can afford to while still making a small profit.

You can get a 2Mbps bundle (ADSL Rental + Uncapped) from Afrihost for R497, 2Mbps line from Axxess is R249 and Uncapped data is R296 (R249+R296=R545) both of which are cheaper than Mweb.

If there is any cost reduction the ISP's will pass it onto the customers, they have done so every time in the past and they wil continue to do so.
 
Mweb may be the most expensive of the bunch but they perform the best out of the bunch, you get what you pay for with them.
 
KinsZA said:
Mweb may be the most expensive of the bunch but they perform the best out of the bunch, you get what you pay for with them.
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Their network performs the best, but not by a big margin compared to Afrihost (in my opinion, and in my testing of both networks for at least 3 months each, for my specific usage patterns).

However, with regards to support (online, email and voice), billing, client zone, product flexilbility, cheap line rentals, cheap capped and uncapped, etc, Afrihost wins by a mile. Definitely THE ISP of choice.
 
KinsZA said:
Mweb may be the most expensive of the bunch but they perform the best out of the bunch, you get what you pay for with them.
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I will never leave mweb because they are the best expensive but the best when it comes to arguing about their stuff they will never become angry they will encourage it and they will deliver next time. I believe that Afrihsot and the others maybe cheap but their services are always throttled. All what I want is that mweb must explain why R599 and not R488 for 2MBPS. Or will they reduced it on 1 April 2013 when Telkom ore when ICASA forced them again to reduced the prices of bitstream by another 30%like they have do earlier this year with the then IPC?
 
Pierneef said:
I will never leave mweb because they are the best expensive but the best when it comes to arguing about their stuff they will never become angry they will encourage it and they will deliver next time. I believe that Afrihsot and the others maybe cheap but their services are always throttled. All what I want is that mweb must explain why R599 and not R488 for 2MBPS. Or will they reduced it on 1 April 2013 when Telkom ore when ICASA forced them again to reduced the prices of bitstream by another 30%like they have do earlier this year with the then IPC?
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Always throttled?

Not quite http://www.speedtest.net/result/2251605748.png

I always get full line speed on my 10Mb account
 
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