Exactly what I thought. They are gonna use Wimax as their Broadband offering.
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Exactly what I thought. They are gonna use Wimax as their Broadband offering.
Who knows why they took the CDMA route as opposed to Wimax, they've only had a few years to plan ... i guess we'll find out with time.
The_Unbeliever
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The mere fact that comparisons are being drawn with ISDN is quite worrying. Talk about a step backwards!
I agree that the fact it is uncapped is nice, But good luck watching many Youtube vids at those speeds
It sure is worrying... blech...
The 128k ISDN "standard" will be used for a long time as a basic benchmark...
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hj2k_x
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If only man, if only...
All possible but the will is sorely lacking.
Well there is still hope. Neoconnect lite comes in two flavours. 2g and unlimited. I think we now need a neoconnect prime unlimited flavour aswell.
Eg. R899 neoconnect prime unlimted.
R899 is not cheap, but unlimited at a decent speed would be nice.
I think neotel is purposely goign slightly high on their prices to avoid too much of a price war with telkom at the moment.
If they came in to low. Then all telkom would do is simply drop prices and undercut them.
EG. neotel would still loose because cmda has poor pings, and the price of international bandwidth (sat3) puts a bacement on how low they could possible go. Even then if they further reduced prices to match telkom, they would still be second choice becasue of their poor latency.
Their best bet is to enter the market with something not revolutionary. Thus preventing the need for telkom to compete with price. When seacom comes, and they have their wimax network up and running; well then they will have the ammunition to realistic play tag with telkom. At the moment low prices hurt them in every way.
Low prices mean less money and more customers on an untested network, as well as an agry giant in the form of telkom.
In the short term, they just want to develop an "ok" rating in the mind of the consumer.
They probably are just buying time untill seacom lands.
Eg. R899 neoconnect prime unlimted.
R899 is not cheap, but unlimited at a decent speed would be nice.
I think neotel is purposely goign slightly high on their prices to avoid too much of a price war with telkom at the moment.
If they came in to low. Then all telkom would do is simply drop prices and undercut them.
EG. neotel would still loose because cmda has poor pings, and the price of international bandwidth (sat3) puts a bacement on how low they could possible go. Even then if they further reduced prices to match telkom, they would still be second choice becasue of their poor latency.
Their best bet is to enter the market with something not revolutionary. Thus preventing the need for telkom to compete with price. When seacom comes, and they have their wimax network up and running; well then they will have the ammunition to realistic play tag with telkom. At the moment low prices hurt them in every way.
Low prices mean less money and more customers on an untested network, as well as an agry giant in the form of telkom.
In the short term, they just want to develop an "ok" rating in the mind of the consumer.
They probably are just buying time untill seacom lands.
SUPERMAN89
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at last "uncapped internet"Thou my question remains as to the rest of South Africans who going find it a pain to buy the Neotel Hardware....oh well baby steps i guess
Just why is joberg always the first with everthing?Last time i cheaked undersea cables where " by the sea"..joberg ant no where near a sea
hj2k_x
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It says at the bottom of the deal' subject to the signing of a 24 month contract'. Is it still the case that this is only to cover the cost of the hardware and if you want to cancel, you have to pay the remaining hardware installments but not the remaining data subs?
Shake&Bake
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Would really love that :drools:
These two offers are for Neotel staff only. It is addressed to people part of the Neotel family. They are testing the product on their own staff.
Looking at the Neoconnect Prime, they mention speeds up to 2,4 mbps. Shouldn't it be 2,4 Mbps?
same with the Neoconnect lite, 156 kbps. Surely that must be a mistake??
Looking at the Neoconnect Prime, they mention speeds up to 2,4 mbps. Shouldn't it be 2,4 Mbps?
same with the Neoconnect lite, 156 kbps. Surely that must be a mistake??
SUPERMAN89
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HAHA than why its on the news?
now this i dont mind , R899 For a 2.4Mbps and uncapped il go for , since i pay R1200 without the prepaid gigs i buy
Lord Anubis
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INCLUDING INFINITCALL YOU CAN GET ABOUT 23GB UNSHAPED A MONTH IN CALL MORE
However, should you leave it on 24/7 and even if you have callmore with infinitcall it (Telskommel beast) will cost you around R20 000 for those 50gb
compared to ISDN and if the speed stays above 128k always, its really a very good deal
...compared to intl broadband its cr@p
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Even the instrument looks different between prime and lite products. I think they use different CDMA protocols.
Not sure making the m lowercase or uppercase will change the meaning at all (no sane person would consider mbps it to meam millibits per second). But changing the b to uppercase would have a huge impact.
confused????? if thats the case then why would there lite package be cheaper than premium if premium offers 10gig at R599 and lite is R479 I THINK , So i dont think its going to go at those speeds they said to u