Lower prices fuel broadband growth

[rpm]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Broadband/855.html

 

[Sneeky]

ADSL still leads the broadband race with around 300 000 connections country wide. Telkom announced earlier this year that it saw an ADSL growth of 78.1% - from 143 509 to 255 633 - for the year up to March 31 2007.

TELKOM must be drowning in line rental money.

 

[TimstaH]

"South Africa’s broadband growth has accelerated on the back of aggressive price cuts."

There is honestly nothing aggresive about the 2c reductions...

 

[VQuest]

Have these idiots finally woken up? We've been telling them this for years. Lower your prices and they will come. More customers, more money. Rather dense bunch of people working at Telkomland.

 

[TiredOfWaiting]

"South Africa’s broadband growth has accelerated on the back of aggressive price cuts."

There is honestly nothing aggresive about the 2c reductions...

How is a 30 odd percent reduction in line rental a "2c reduction"?

30% is a HUGE reduction.

 

[ldmelsa]

line rental is up

 

[ic]

While MTN does not release official figures regarding their broadband subscriber numbers, it is widely accepted that they have tens-of-thousands of 3G/HSDPA users.

Dear MTN

Please release your official broadband [HSDPA] subscriber numbers and growth stats...

Sentech have also not released any figures in the recent years, but according to sources the uptake of their MyWireless service has ground to a halt due to a lack of coverage and marketing.

This isn't the first time that MTN has failed to release subscriber numbers - I seriously don't get why MTN is hiding this info - we know why Sentech is hiding its MyWireless subscriber number [probably about 10 Sentech employees waiting for their personal contracts to expire or something], but what does MTN have to hide? - surely MTN should be proud of its subscriber numbers compared to Sentech and iBurst...?

@rpm, if possible, for next time around, could you also ask Vodacom [& MTN] how many subscribers are using [searchforum]PPDB[/searchforum]s compared to [searchforum]CDB[/searchforum]s?

 

[Stoner]

not there yet...

I agree with VQuest, "Lower your prices and they will come"

The issue of price is better and hopefully will get much better. But the next problem that will increase the number of ADSL subscribers and users of 3G, wireless etc. connections with a huge amount, is the capping issue.

Prices are lower but the amount of data we get for our money is pathetic.
Bottom line is we need cheap uncapped, unshapped options!