Maybe they aren't competing with Telkom?

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I use my HSDPA phone to listen to podcasts and online radio while I work. My prepaid data bundle has almost run out. As I was about the recharge it and was looking up the prices I realised that Neotel is competing more with the cellphone companies. 24 month contracts where you get the device for free...Their data is much cheaper than Vodacom's. I know it is slower but it is fast enough for what I need it to do.Maybe the big guys will drop their prices when Neotel officially launches.
 
pkid said:
I use my HSDPA phone to listen to podcasts and online radio while I work. My prepaid data bundle has almost run out. As I was about the recharge it and was looking up the prices I realised that Neotel is competing more with the cellphone companies. 24 month contracts where you get the device for free...Their data is much cheaper than Vodacom's. I know it is slower but it is fast enough for what I need it to do.Maybe the big guys will drop their prices when Neotel officially launches.
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Understood, but then at 156kbs? How 'broad is Neotel's brand?'
 
I agree with you pkid.

I think that way too many people use their cellphone to connect to the internet because they can not get a telokom line.

Neotel are targeting them.
 
I gave up my 56k dialup some months ago in anticipation of Neotel launching. Since then I have been using my Nokia Navigator & MTN Data Bundles to connect. I'm quite happy with the speeds I'm getting. Hopefully MTN & VC will drop their bundle prices. I will not switch to a Neotel 156 kbps line. Funny thing is, Telkom ADSL is starting to look attractive.
 
rph72 said:
I gave up my 56k dialup some months ago in anticipation of Neotel launching. Since then I have been using my Nokia Navigator & MTN Data Bundles to connect. I'm quite happy with the speeds I'm getting. Hopefully MTN & VC will drop their bundle prices. I will not switch to a Neotel 156 kbps line. Funny thing is, Telkom ADSL is starting to look attractive.
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i have been using ADSL for many years now, and not regretting it for 1 minute... maby its not cheap compared to rest of world, but its a hell of a lot more stable and better than any of the others.

amongst my 6 adsl lines around the country, none of them has been 'not working' for more than the reset period of less than a minute each day, and the 2 faults amongst the 6 lines over about 4 yrs have both been fixed the same day by telkom... i think telkom needs to get a bit more credit for their ADSL... its by far the best broadband connection in SA all things considered...
 
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