Mobile broadband pricing adjustments needed?

[rpm]

Mobile broadband pricing adjustments needed?

Mobile broadband network CAPEX could reach R 12 800 per subscriber

 

[Zyzzyva]

Seems like technology is going to have to improve to lower the overal cost per customer. Increasing prices or lowering caps will never be a long term solution.

 

[pkid]

Is this R12800 per month, year or the entire lifetime of the equipment?

 

[psc]

Of course they want to recover their costs in a day

R12800 is probably the price to provision data to some obscure hamlet .....

Surely if you can get voice, you can get data ? GPRS @ least on a cost effective basis.

 

[nelwa]

"exceed 10 gigabytes per user per month already this year"

what?

 

[Insider]

Is this R12800 per month, year or the entire lifetime of the equipment?

It would be the typical lifetime of the equipment which, as a guideline, is about 5 years. After 5 years the equipment becomes obsolete on a functional, operational or cost-efficiency level.

These are the Capex costs. There are also the operational costs which consist of equipment-, software- and capacity licensing and support, and the better known items like power, backhaul leasing, staff, etc.

The impact is more significant when you look at the size of the market. R12 800 x a few million subscribers = !

 

[psc]

Original article for those interested Link

 

[wezhira]

this article did no make any sense too me they just flooded it with too many terms

 

[swim]

It would be the typical lifetime of the equipment which, as a guideline, is about 5 years. After 5 years the equipment becomes obsolete on a functional, operational or cost-efficiency level.

These are the Capex costs. There are also the operational costs which consist of equipment-, software- and capacity licensing and support, and the better known items like power, backhaul leasing, staff, etc.

The impact is more significant when you look at the size of the market. R12 800 x a few million subscribers = !

Not with Telkom try 10+ years

 

[tjunyat]

"exceed 10 gigabytes per user per month already this year"

what?

Omnitele is most likely using their international figures to reach that amount of data throughput. If that was happening in SA at their wonderful OoB charges, I don't think our MNOs would care how many R12k odd/user setups they had to do.