IS's ADSL products 'SA friendly'

"protecting their lucrative Diginet and ISDN markets, "

..... will do anthing to keep the goose who lays golden eggs...
 
Thumbs up for IS (Albeit a small one, they are not to blame). Problem is that the first Gigs to reach Cap includes the local traffic, which will make international usage null and void or rather unaffordable. Lucky I still have a SAT link
 
After you have reached your cap on their services your local traffic will be de-prioritized, but the service levels on local access should still be acceptable.
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I was under the impression that local traffic is the same as it would be before the cap. Can any IS-based ISP shade light on this? What exactly happens to the local traffic after cap?


Spinz
 
Saol.Com will be competing in the wholesale market too; we are in the process of setting up packages for ISP's.

The nice part about Saol.Com's offering is that we have a very well proven VISP model that allows ISP's to control all accounts by themselves and also do billing and interact with the banks for easy EFT.

Our ADSL accounts will be very easy to manage and will come with a whole array of tools to make the job easy.

Sincerely
Tarquin Douglass

(CEO) Nyala Communications (Pty) Ltd.
Web: http://www.saol.com
Tel: (031)240-7800
Cel: (083)645-7890
 
There will be immense competition once SAT-3 is opened up and the SNO is allowed access to the local loop.. thats happening in a month or two, right? :)
 
ahahahahaha funny MaD...

Are IS counting local bandwidth towards the cap? If so they're as idiotic as Telkom (Lets hope they aren't)
 
Our company is considering switching to IS but we'll probably wait to see what Axxess and the like have to offer
 
Uninet uses IS and you can be sure that you get excellent speed.. well, from my experience anyway.. even on a 256 Home package a constant32KB/s becomes part of the furniture.. used to worry when the speed dipped to less than 28KB/s but usually it was because someone else on the WAN was doing summin. IS has good speeds.
 
Spindrift said:
I was under the impression that local traffic is the same as it would be before the cap ..... What exactly happens to the local traffic after cap?
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IS's exact words ....

When the user exceeds the ‘subscribed to’ data cap, the international connection will be fully restricted, while the local connection is allocated to a bandwidth segment shared by all excess users
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Lets hope they make this 'excess segment' large enough to be uncongested most of the time?
 
Well, I tell you what oaks, it aint all smiles and roses over here in the Uk, if you don't have a fixed line to get ADSL, internet access is bloody expensive.

I'm currently on a kind of cap - it's a "time cap" - I purchased 30 days BT openzone wireless for £40, but the catch is, you only get 66 hours with it.

heh -

Then there's general teleco prices, once again, without a fixed line, it's expensive. I'd say cellphone rates are slightly higher. Don't even think about a callbox, unless you think R12 a minute is a fun price to pay.

Swings and roundabouts ....
 
If IS can offer these products at a profit (they arnt a charity afterall) how the hell does Telkom get to charge 4x as much with a smile? What is letting IS charge so much less? Sat international links?
 
After you have reached your cap on their services your local traffic will be de-prioritized, but the service levels on local access should still be acceptable.
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When the user exceeds the ‘subscribed to’ data cap, the international connection will be fully restricted, while the local connection is allocated to a bandwidth segment shared by all excess users
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Seems like IS only have a fix-sized pipe for all excess users. Doesnt that mean that they cant guarantee service level on local access after cap (unless they ensure a contention ratio)? How do they know it'll be acceptable?

Spinz
 
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