Latest MyWireless Adverts

[guest2013-1]

I see they are advertising their service as BROADBAND again. This pisses me off... did anyone see the advert last night?

 

[rpm]

Hi Noone

While we as a users group can effectively define broadband after investigating the issue (exactly what the Australian government has done), I think ASA will not do much until ICASA accepts such a definition. I think in our next ‘Broadband Ratings’ document we should clearly define broadband and highlight all services that do not qualify. Let’s hope it then becomes a ‘de facto’ standard of broadband in South Africa.

BTW: Australia Broadband = 200 kbps+
This will disqualify all services as broadband except for ADSL…

Regards,

RPM

 

[dbnnet]

I have seen the definition mentioned in overseas IT media that:
Western Europe Broadband = 512kbs
USA Broadband = 1Mbs

It is quite sad that in SA, most people see broadband as ANYTHING faster than dial up!
(This at a time when we are starting to see 45Mbs services offered in countries like Japan)

 

[keng]

pity bill gates doesn't own the internet. We would just be swopping one monopoly for another..........BUT
Sorry but from June Microsoft cannot support internet connections below 512k and in 2006 cannot support anything less the 4mg from 2006 and so on
DOC can then decide to either switch off the lights or join the rest of the world.

 

[ash]

i would like to know if the sentech modem,usb, can take the 3g vodacom sim card to use a vodacom modem, i see a slot at the back of the modem for it. any answers?

 

[Luke7777]

It is quite sad that in SA, most people see broadband as ANYTHING faster than dial up!

Change "anything faster" to "anything other" and you're spot on

 

[guest2013-1]

i would like to know if the sentech modem,usb, can take the 3g vodacom sim card to use a vodacom modem, i see a slot at the back of the modem for it. any answers?

Probably not, the technology is kinda specific. I stand to be corrected

 

[playkiller no.2]

"something's in the air"<--------what rubbish

 

[guest2013-1]

i farted, maybe that is what they're talking about...

 

[nocilah]

sentech's new ads are worse then noone's fart... in fact sentech suck so badly that i wonder why i even own sentech... oh yeah... cuz I am stoooopid.

ah well fyck it... sentech suxs and winston smith is a wanker...

 

[ash]

Probably not, the technology is kinda specific. I stand to be corrected

can anyone check this for sure. vodacom is coming out with a prepaid 3G at vry small costs. so when there is no sentech coverage slot in your vodacom 3G sim. could it be that easy? R2 for 1 mb is a great price even available on prepaid,wow.

 

[Gooku]

Is this a new Ad ?,I have not seen it yet !

Which channel is it on ?

 

[desraid]

I see they are advertising their service as BROADBAND again. This pisses me off... did anyone see the advert last night?

it should be called as "narrowband"

According to Telstra, (www.telstra.com.au - their relative page is now missing) Narrowbands are communication technologies with a data transmission capacity of under 300 Kbit/s. Includes online interactive services (e.g. Internet), voice, facsimile services, slow-scan video images and low-rate data transmission.

 

[noswal]

Lots of definitions from google of what broadband is
http://www.google.co.za/search?num=...:en-US:official&oi=defmore&q=define:BROADBAND

 

[nocilah]

it should be called as "narrowband"

According to Telstra, (www.telstra.com.au - their relative page is now missing) Narrowbands are communication technologies with a data transmission capacity of under 300 Kbit/s. Includes online interactive services (e.g. Internet), voice, facsimile services, slow-scan video images and low-rate data transmission.

Fraudband is a better term.

Sentech really do SUCK

 

[ProAsm]

it should be called as "narrowband"

Why is that everyone relates Broadband to speed.
The speed of any system has absolutely nothing to do with the carrier width of a system and the carrier width of the transmission defines whether it is classified as Broadband or Narrowband.
For instance, ADSL is narrowband, it uses a phaseshift modulation that is transmitted about a 1 mhz carrier so it will always be narrowband whether the speed is 1KB/sec or 1MB/sec or 10MB/sec.
The same goes for Broadband systems.
Majority of wireless systems operate on a Broadband Carrier transmission, and is for the reasons as stated on Google...

A transmission facility having a bandwidth sufficient to carry multiple voice, video or data channels simultaneously.

Broadband is normally defined with systems using a carrier transmission greater than 3 mhz.
Majority of Wireless operators use 5 mhz carrier bandwidth whereas MyWireless uses 10 mhz, hence the frequency spacing of 12 mhz which includes 2 mhz guardbands - 2506 - 2518 - 2530 - 2542.
Just my 0.02c worth.

 

[Raithlin]

Why is that everyone relates Broadband to speed.

Because the websites refer to their links as

Click here if you have broadband access (links to flash, big d/l, etc)
Click here if you don't (links to plain html site)

 

[guest2013-1]

I think ProAsm (in his old age ) is getting confused by the differences of broadband out there. The type of technology (classified as broadband, like ProAsm stated) used by the service provider, does not usually equate to the fact that from a client's perspective, the service he receives != broadband AS ADVERTISED.

As pointed out in several threads and posts, anything above 200kbits (this ranges from country to country depending on standards) is broadband. This references the speed of the connection and not the type of technology the provider uses to get said service to it's clients.

It's like me telling my client's I'll write them an operating system customized to their company's needs. Then when they sign the contract, several months later, find that I've written an application on a popular operating system, customized to their company's needs.

This might seem the same to laymen *cough* marketing at sentech *cough*, but it's not. It's two very different things.

So as a client, I don't care that the type of technology that Sentech uses is indeed broadband, my only concern is that they advertise AS broadband, yet I receive (according to standards in the rest of the world) narrowband.

Let me re-iterate :

Service provided != broadband
Technology used to provide service = broadband

Two major differences.

 

[ProAsm]

ProAsm, yes that's the technical definition from a techie point of view.

Noone, yes the definition from the consumer's POV.

ic you are right, I have to stop thinking like a techie -

 

[Luke7777]

Easy one for me : Broadband = more bandwidth = faster d/l & u/l . In the internet context it has always been linked to SPEED and VOLUME by the consumer and the advertiser. Show me one broadband ad that doesn't