Lower telecoms prices coming

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Leathal said:
I think its a excellent rulling, hopefully we see overseas providers taking advantage of the ruling and rolling out here.

Are overseas providers alloud to apply for licence's?

Bigup to the judge in that case. Sum1 needs to tell ivy what shes doing is ridiculisly wrong. :p
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Well they could just buy one of the 300 vans that have a license.
 
I think this doesn't mean much lower prices in future but it does mean more choice and more bandwidth available. It would also mean companies like Zain can enter the market much easier than was anticipated. It is not immediate good news but it's a start. The one thing that Ivy did bring up was the problem with too many players now building antennas just about everywhere and as a result, the departments will be overworked without warning when it comes to things like approving EIAs and the like so there is a small bit of method in her madness.

Also on pricing - there have been prices drops. Not major, but there are some! Telkoms 3G prices are lower than MTN and Vodacom. What about when Nashua entered the ISP market with their internetlessness campaign? Yes the prices didn't half overnight but hey, it is something!
 
Its fantastic news. Not many VAN's have the cash to roll out their own national network but many of them can replace the local loop (as IS have been doing via wireless for a while) or offer alternatives. Quite often the local loop side of things costs as much as the bandwidth itself. Hopefully there will be enough people doing this to actually bring meaningful price decreases to us consumers.
Viva Altech Viva, Phanzi Ivy
 
Altech has already written Icasa a letter of demand for its new licence, saying it will be in contempt of court if it fails to issue one.
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:cool: but !CASA has already been in contempt of court since it issued a guavamental gazette notice retracting one of its previous guavamental gazette notices and thereby refusing to issue converted licences.

Hopefully Altech has set a deadline for compliance from !CASA, failing which, Altech and other VANs should take !CASA to court - Altech cannot be expected to be the only torch bearer for all of these court cases - the other VANs that want a converted to I-ECNS licence need to grow a pair and stand side-by-side with Altech.

@dominic, I take it the content of the above quote was what you were hinting at over the weekend? ;)
 
$ wget ftp://ftp.saix.net/pub/lower_telecoms_prices.tgz

Resolving localhost... 127.0.0.1
Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 Gatewaying
Length: 120952963274267 (110TB) [text/plain]
Saving to: `lower_telecoms_prices.tgz'

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Patience

Tsugaru said:
K.

Seen too much of this "price dropping in the furture" crap. 3 months later and still no drops.
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3 months later than what?

I understand your pessimism, we've been let down many times before. But don't lose sight of the fact that this ruling is huge. It friggin brilliant in fact!

It doesn't mean that prices will miraculously drop overnight though. Ivy's appeal was only booted out a week ago, and networks take time to build.

Hang in there, it's going to happen
 
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