More MWEB ADSL bandwidth for your buck

[Lycanthrope]

@ MWEB - Don't get me wrong, I have a fair amount of respect for your free uncapped local trial you had running a while back. I apologise for sounding as though I was attacking you directly.

What I meant is more to the point that I don't blame you for charging for local, since I assume you have to buy usage from the likes of SAIX? So yes, financially unsustainable. It's just that it's pretty much what every company does regarding local.

I don't blame you, I blame ICASA's lack of foresight. Or rather, their apathy.

 

[Albereth]

Wasn't there another thread about how the ISPs mislead with their claims about caps? A pay per use product has absolutely nothing to do with a cap or not.

Think of it this way - buffet night, eat as much as you want for R100. Or, ala carte - you pay for what you eat. Or menu option A - 4 course meal for R120.

Only the buffet night is uncapped. Most places offer menu option A and then you go to the ala carte menu.

And before the argument about restuarants running out of food on buffet night is raised. Look at the restuarant. I could see a Spur-type running out of ribs but if somewhere like the Michaelangelo ever had a buffet night, if they ran out of smoked salmon they most certainly would be offering their clients something just as good (or better) without an extra charge.

Funny how restuarants can get it right but ISPs not!

 

[rambo919]

I think half the problem is ISP's can now shamelessly blame telkom for their own inadequasies and sometime even be right but other times overmarketing and wording their promises on the edge of truth.
Like something I remember reading about a while back about a guy getting charged extra for a lot of usage on his "uncapped" line, as if uncapped is not a excuse to just go for it, if you pay for the privalige of raping a line only a idiot would be surprised if you actually did go ahead and do it
Our countries' leading marketing geniuses never seem to be able to factor in those of us that actually know enough to just qeue a bunch of torrents and then forget about them for a few weeks, damm i wish i had a uncapped line

 

[entrepr]

Except they increased the Cap for the 1Gig people as well.

From what I read, the 1 Gigabyte INCLUSIVE package remains completely *unchanged*. It still remains at 1 Gig.



I think this is a big mistake - we are the bread and butter of M-Web's business. I've just gone out and bought an unlocked ADSL modem so that I can shop around!

 

[entrepr]

With reference to the local capping debate, the ADSL regulations state;

Now this pretty open to interpretation, however there is no denying there is an inference that local cannot be capped.

With a view of giving the benefit of the doubt to our customers, MWEB did trail the viability of providing unlimited local bandwidth free of charge. This turned out to be finanacially unsustainable.

In view of the above regulation wording, the only other option avaliable to us was to provide unlimited local only (no cap), but on a pay per use basis.

MWB

Please tell me if I'm wrong, but the ripoff seems to be that ALL usage counts to reaching the cap (local and international). Your local 10 Gig cap only kicks in after you have already depleted this. You are then stuck with the options of

A: using the 10 Gig but having no international
B: loading a booster or pay-per-use, but then not benefiting from the local
C: using the 10 Gig local and using another provider for international

All 3 options are patently ridiculous from a customer POV!

 

[MWEB]

From what I read, the 1 Gigabyte INCLUSIVE package remains completely *unchanged*. It still remains at 1 Gig.



I think this is a big mistake - we are the bread and butter of M-Web's business. I've just gone out and bought an unlocked ADSL modem so that I can shop around!

Hi entrepr,

I think if you look at it from a total cost of ownership perspective, you'll see it makes sense;

MWEB 2GB ADSL data cap @ R145 + ADSL 384 line rental @ R152 = p/m tco of R297 for 2GB

MWEB 1GB 384 All-Inclusive Bundle @ R199 (R145 for 1st 6 months) + 1.5GB Booster @ R99 = p/m tco of R298 for 2.5GB

Your local 10 Gig cap only kicks in after you have already depleted this.

This is a technical limitation of Telkom's Wholesale ADSL architecture, which MWEB is bound by.

MWB

 

[Albereth]

Please tell me if I'm wrong, but the ripoff seems to be that ALL usage counts to reaching the cap (local and international). Your local 10 Gig cap only kicks in after you have already depleted this. You are then stuck with the options of

A: using the 10 Gig but having no international
B: loading a booster or pay-per-use, but then not benefiting from the local
C: using the 10 Gig local and using another provider for international

All 3 options are patently ridiculous from a customer POV!

The 'rip-off' becomes a little worse when you realise that MWEB (and others) use the same lame excuses that Teklom use. Why do MWEB sell belnded usage? Are they unable to monitor the usage parameters? Teklom said that they were unable to do that (yeah right) but suddenly are able to monitor where you try to go once you are capped.

 

[rambo919]

everything starts and ends with telkom and the huge financial stake gov has in it, just like with eskom and sabc, its merely another way of drawing extra taxes without actually calling it taxes, taxes after all mean the public is entitled to receive something back, the anc is too scaly to be merely stupid i tell u

 

[Rosina123]

NO, the all-inclusive Mweb subscribers (1g) will NOT get the added benefit
Very unfair of them.