Neotel’s consumer plans

stoke said:
ADSL was uncapped AND unshaped when Teklom introduced it. I remain skeptical for the same reasons.
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:sick::sick::sick::sick: Internet in SA is making me sicker than crime, rapes, babies dieing from poluted water, global warming, the petrol price, inflation, intrest rates, corruption, poverty and AIDS

Internet in SA is truely suffering from AIDS just like the rest of our population, we're dying here! TELKOM, VODACOM, MTN, IBURST, NEOTEL AND WHO EVER just go F@$%k urselfs :sick:

EDIT: Just want to apologise for that, its just that this powerless feeling is overwelming me!
 
cmon they have better speed for the price and caps , i spoke to someone in neotel and they told me they going to have bigger cas then them and also going to introduce fixed line adsl
 
avr-rulez said:
Trial customers will initially pay R 499.00 per month for an unlimited NeoConnect Prime

Too expensive as a base price - remember that the increased price after the trial will be subjected to some sort of cap.

Dis-appointing indeed.

AVR
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Who said increased?
 
ldmelsa said:
Who said increased?
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no1 said increased?????? what if they dropped it??? telkom vs neotel will bring us cheaper prices and if i remember correctly vodacom and mtn also said a while back they are starting their fibre cable things and started building ???? so soon S.A Will have many competitors so that means cheaper prices but for now telkom will have to drop if neotel is going to offer cheaper? and if they drop neotel will drop wateva price they have and so on? so think about it , and for me neotel will eventually win bcz of telkoms ignorance in support etc and neotel stated that they will offer 15mbps in there consumer section this is what they said

"EV-DO Rev B in the near future which will deliver peak speeds in the region of 15 megabits per second and EV-DO Rev C in the longer term, which will deliver peak speeds of over 70 megabits per second."

so be happy we will get beeter instead of worse
 
ldmelsa said:
Who said increased?
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They did say that you will have to pay for the bandwidth additionally to the R499

matrixweb said:
cmon they have better speed for the price and caps , i spoke to someone in neotel and they told me they going to have bigger cas then them and also going to introduce fixed line adsl
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Sorry I have absolutely no trust in word of mouth from any Telecoms provider. I have been done in way to many times to fall for that again.
 
Is it not strange that for the past year with these trials going on, no one has given any feedback? Or at least I haven't seen any...

...Neotel says that these delays were necessary to develop a product which attends to the concerns of residential and small business customers.
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What rubbish, delays = bad planning. If Neotel had initially set the date to May, June.. July 2008 what ever, and not prematurely keep setting dates to "please" everyone, they wouldn't look like a bunch of headless chickens running around.
 
Wyzak said:
Sorry I have absolutely no trust in word of mouth from any Telecoms provider. I have been done in way to many times to fall for that again.
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Then please do stick with the evil that you know and give us a break from the Neobashing. Same goes for everyone else that has troubles reading the article, but assumes its a poor product.

This is one of many things wrong with South Africa, people expect cheap bandwidth but maon then they get poor quality. It is increasingly hard to be positive when everyone is spewing their negativity all over.
 
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Eish

Ah well, how long do you guys this trial will go on and on and on and on.

Its like someone said earlier, I don't care about a phone line. I just want Broadband for reasonable price.

It seems that both Telkom and Neotel seems to want to connect everyone on phonelines. I don't use my Telkom phone, so why would I use my Neotel phone? I do everything online. Thats why Skype & Ventrilo exist.

If someone from Uganda calls in OUR country for less control on telecoms, it makes you think that maybe its TIME FOR REAL CHANGE, something the 39% government stakeholders in Telkom don't want.
 
Just called Neotel...again....and app they know the prices but they ain't telling and app they do not want to release the prices as then Telkom will jump on board and decrease their prices accordingly. Surely Telkom have to go through ICASA to change prices either way.

Also as I was hoping, app we will be buying the phone and then you just pay for the call charges, so no line rental.
 
IBurst was also uncapped pre-launch. Something that gave them critical mass in their early days. And then they ruined the dream by instituting a bog-standard 3gb cap on the service.

I think Neotel should be informing us of the actual product they intend selling, and should not appear to be operating another shady bait and switch scam.
 
Gatecrasher said:
IBurst was also uncapped pre-launch. Something that gave them critical mass in their early days. And then they ruined the dream by instituting a bog-standard 3gb cap on the service.

I think Neotel should be informing us of the actual product they intend selling, and should not appear to be operating another shady bait and switch scam.
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As was Sentech MyWireless...uncapped until they started calling customers and blaming them for using the service as advertised.
 
Not that i like or back Telkom or Neotel in anywhere but with the eskom problem that we are having at the moment,How sure are we that Neotel system(wireless system) might not go down like IBurst and some other mobile telecom network in South African. With Telkom i Can make a call without having to worry about power. Can Neotel make sure that their system is "eskomprof"...Dnt get me wrong im waiting to switch to Neotel but small things like power problems might make people think twice..Neotel Should make it clear about how its back-up systems are going work.
 
superman89, the same way cellular providers manage to stay up in certain areas. Granted they are new to the telco scene in SA they can start providing for problems regarding power as they deploy their stations. This puts other providers in a nasty situation where they have to go back and make plans for their stations where battery or generator back up isnt coping.
 
the end of May
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End of April... end of May... end of June... end of July... end of the world...

Here's another thing that confuses/annoys me: why do we get all these converged service offerrings? Telkom's Closer (or in fact Telkom's annoying insistence that you must have a phone line if you want ANY of their other products, including ADSL and OMGWTF WiMax) and now NeoConnect both include broadband and phone components. Why?? If I have BROADBAND, I would like to use VoIP, if anything at all. I already have a cell-phone, as do most of South Africans, I believe, since we have the higest cellphone penetration rate in the world. Why do these companies think I would WANT to pay more money to duplicate services I already have??
 
To all the irate SA Internet consumers who know how long it has taken to get any sort of movement in this industry, the ones who simply cannot accept anymore bullshyte and lies and stories and "hope" for better Internet, the ones complaining about everything...I salute you.

For the rest who say lets give 'em a chance, wait and see man etc etc...it's that attitude that holds us back as consumers. It's that very mindset I am troubled by, where people in SA are so complacent with everything and get ripped off left, right and center. Now stop!! I like my money to some extent thank you very much. Start an outcry or something and you might actually see Neotel drop prices sooner rather than later.

Just my opinion and 2 thousand rands worth :p :)
 
Deenem said:
When cell phones first arrived the cheapest package was the R500/month contract as well (back when R500 was a LOT! of money).

They always launch the expensive option first then the cheaper ones.

My price point is R250-299/month, as soon as they launch that package then I'm there.
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R500! First Cellphone in 1993, cost was R750 for the phone and monthly it was R110 with a call rate of R1.20 peak and offpeak and 40 odd cents IIRC.

For those who want to know which brick I had... Nokia 2010, a grey monster and didn't last 12 hours if I used it for a bit... it eventually drowned in the swimming pool!

D
 
Neotel is obviously not good at PR.

If they were, the tone of this discussion would have been much sweeter :-)

The fortunate thing of not too good PR is that they might also be less good at twisting the truth in future than other major telco's
 
So this is effectively the same as HSDPA with a normal phone instead of the cell phone...
If the price is right, it may work nicely against the cell providers offerings where there is no ADSL, but I'm struggling to see it as competition for ADSL. And since it's cell based... how is it going to perform with the whole neighbourhood online? How many ports per tower, etc. Backhaul will prolly be the least of the issues IMO.
So why not just hand out CDMA mobile phones instead of bulky models for houses... or are they not planning to have that much penetration that you can use it while mobile?
All very interesting.

Like that moose in open season... tasting the coffee...
Yuck. Yuck. Yuck! It's terrible and wonderful at the same time! It's like freedom in a cup!
 
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