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Cerberus · Mar 15, 2004

Hey guys just read something interesting on Whoosh you know the equivalent of Sentech.. well their selling their Modems for $199 thats only R1000 mmm.. I wonder what Sentech are doing the R3000 they are scoring off of us ??

http://www.woosh.com/UserInterface/Woosh/Static/Homepage/Home.aspx

Happy flaming/reading

Regards
Cerberus

aftermath · Mar 15, 2004

How did you work out that Sentech are charging us 3K for the modem. There's an activation fee of R 500.00 and then the monthly charges which are way below any other offerings besides ADSL.

Wayned182 · Mar 16, 2004

Yea,

Where did you get that figure of R3000 from, unless thats how much YOU had to pay for it... Sorry for you.

And $199 is still a touch more than R1000, unless the Exchange rate dropped down to 5 while no-one was watching...

Cerberus · Mar 16, 2004

Actually it's 4.91 when I last checked(last night) and I got this from when Sentech product was launched where I got my information may have changed over the few months but when it was launched and the discussion came in on buying the modem then the amount for the modem came out. Check earlier posts on the forum.
http://www.myadsl.co.za/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1209&whichpage=1

Regards
Cerberus

lewstherin · Mar 16, 2004

A forum post doesn't prove any pricing, and also the pricing may have changed with exchange rate fluctuations.
The value of the modem will become public, fatcual knowledge when NoWire launches, since they will be selling modems direct.

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Karnaugh · Mar 16, 2004

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">How did you work out that Sentech are charging us 3K for the modem. There's an activation fee of R 500.00 and then the monthly charges which are way below any other offerings besides ADSL.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

You dont own the modem. Cerberus is right, this was discussed extensivly and people from Sentech and Fastcom even quoted the modem at approximatly R3000

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Karnaugh · Mar 16, 2004

Oh, a US dollar will cost you 6.68613 Rands. You're probably confusing AU Dollars

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dorris · Mar 16, 2004

To be precise, Sentech released their unbundled packages yesterday, the modems a whopping R4000.
for those interested, these are the monthly prices I got.
Subscription R500

12 month contract
128k @ R549 pm
256k @ R749 pm

24 month contract
128k @ R499 pm
256k @ R699 pm

ProAsm · Mar 16, 2004

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Oh, a US dollar will cost you 6.68613 Rands. You're probably confusing AU Dollars<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">He's talkin AU Dollars.

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guest2013-1 · Mar 16, 2004

No 512k unbundled?

You poor poor people

/me rolls around in his dosh

Rhino · Mar 16, 2004

While noone is not looking........./me grabs some of his dosh[}

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dorris · Mar 16, 2004

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by noone
 No 512k unbundled?
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My bad,256 is sufficient for me currently, so I never took down the 512 price.

Spikes · Mar 16, 2004

Where did you get the prices from?

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lewstherin · Mar 17, 2004

Dorris, did they mention why there hasn't been a press release about the new packages? It seems a bit strange that Sentech would introduce new product packages without some fanfare...

Anyhow given that modems appear to rock in @ R4000, it would seem that Sentech is probably trying to drive people into the 24 month option using inflated modem prices...since Woosh does indeed offer modems for less than half that price. Methinks I need to become friends with a New Zealander and get him to send me a modem [

]

Those package prices ex. modem are really starting to look good...sub R600 for 128K is on the right track...

Now we just have to see what the partners bring out...

Telkom needs a leash, ICASA needs some guts, and the SA consumer needs to make it happen

Theta · Mar 17, 2004

Hmm, anyone know where we can get pictures of the modem?

lewstherin · Mar 17, 2004

www.sentech.co.za

Telkom needs a leash, ICASA needs some guts, and the SA consumer needs to make it happen

ProAsm · Mar 17, 2004

ahhhhhhh... just had word from Woosh that their modems are currently heavily subsidised by themselves so as to gain clients.
This explains why they so cheap [|)]

Business must be tough [

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lewstherin · Mar 17, 2004

Woosh is apparently signing up customers at a seriously fast rate though...methinks Sentech needs to subsidise [

] (if they aren't already)

Also Woosh is aggressively looking to become a telecoms voice player: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3544436&thesection=business&thesubsection=telecommunications&thesecondsubsection=retail

Can Sentech do this here legally and resource-wise?

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ProAsm · Mar 17, 2004

Yes I saw that.
I stand to correction here as its a different department but apparently Sentech can do this legally but currently not locally from what I gather.

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