Neotel – Seacom to provide ultra-cheap educational bandwidth

[rpm]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Telecoms/1005.html

 

[andres101]

Pricing related to incremental costs was made available which equates to R30 per megabit per month, which we estimate is between five hundred to six hundred times cheaper than today’s cost of international bandwidth in South Africa.

Wow!! I'm gonna start a university... who wants to enrol (wink, wink)?

 

[Glordit]

Seacom and Neotel will provide Tenet with international bandwidth at a price that is over 500 times cheaper than current rates.

Some good news Finaly!! [apart from BioShock on steam ]

 

[Inertia]

Neotel has redeemed themselves in my eyes for the next month until i start realizing again that jack sh*t is happening.

 

[emmanuel]

But what about the individual broadband user?

 

[ldmelsa]

But what about the individual broadband user?

It's a step in the right direction.

 

[rpm]

Definitely very encouraging news. At R 30-00 per Mbps per month one can expect the universities to – at long last – have acceptable internet connections. While I was working at UJ I had to resort to purchasing my own broadband service (MyWireless was the best option at the time) and sharing it with some of my collogues

 

[Oupoot]

Wonder if universities will be allowed to "sell-on" extra capacity to surrounding communities, but obviously with shaping, giving university locations preferred access? It would be great if they could.

 

[dominic]

Wonder if universities will be allowed to "sell-on" extra capacity to surrounding communities, but obviously with shaping, giving university locations preferred access? It would be great if they could.

definitely not

this is fantastic, fantastic news

 

[andres101]

Wonder if universities will be allowed to "sell-on" extra capacity to surrounding communities, but obviously with shaping, giving university locations preferred access? It would be great if they could.

they would obviously continue to run their mirroring services, so if you want to download the latest version of your favourite open source software, you can get it from a local source!

 

[TiredOfWaiting]

Aaagh, what about us?

Who cares about the stupid universities, they can afford expensive internet connections.

 

[MielieSpoor]

Aaagh, what about us?

Who cares about the stupid universities, they can afford expensive internet connections.

Dude, they need these connections prolly more than you do so I think this is great news!! At up we got 200MB's a year while I was studying there - dunno if its still the same.

Secondly, they cannot afford these connections. UP has got a 5MB line to their main campus, just think for a moment what they would be paying Telkom for that each month...

If they can offer these connections to the varsities @ R30/mbs/month, then hopefulle we can expect something not more than R100/mbs/month?

 

[andres101]

If they can offer these connections to the varsities @ R30/mbs/month, then hopefulle we can expect something not more than R100/mbs/month?

dream on... they are running a commercial operation and are in business to make money for shareholders. they will charge as much as they can.

 

[TiredOfWaiting]

Dude, they need these connections prolly more than you do so I think this is great news!! At up we got 200MB's a year while I was studying there - dunno if its still the same.

Secondly, they cannot afford these connections. UP has got a 5MB line to their main campus, just think for a moment what they would be paying Telkom for that each month...

If they can offer these connections to the varsities @ R30/mbs/month, then hopefulle we can expect something not more than R100/mbs/month?

Guess again, this is clearly a sign of charity, not a viable business option. I'd be VERY surprised if they offer it to consumers at anything less than R300/mbps/month. And then we have to subsidize the damn universities.

 

[quovadis]

I'll take 100mbit at R30 per megabit

 

[andres101]

Guess again, this is clearly a sign of charity, not a viable business option. I'd be VERY surprised if they offer it to consumers at anything less than R300/mbps/month. And then we have to subsidize the damn universities.

I doubt they would sell at R300... according to the article, the current prices are R15K/mbps/m (R30*500). now if your competitor is offering a service at R15K, why would you sell the same service at R300

 

[Glordit]

I doubt they would sell at R300... according to the article, the current prices are R15K/mbps/m (R30*500). now if your competitor is offering a service at R15K, why would you sell the same service at R300

Getting confused!!

 

[TiredOfWaiting]

I doubt they would sell at R300... according to the article, the current prices are R15K/mbps/m (R30*500). now if your competitor is offering a service at R15K, why would you sell the same service at R300

That would be for uncapped, I had a 3GB cap in mind...

 

[Conspirator]

UP is still giving students 200Mb per year on a connection that is, on bad days, slower than dial-up (Not kidding). So it's good news.

I think the universities are using internet access to subsidize other parts of the IT department. e.g. Cap beyond the 200Mb has to be bought at R1.00/Meg! And the get it for what? Maybe R0.10 if they are unlucky.

 

[Rocket-Boy]

Even so the landing of the cable will being down bandwidth costs, The whole claim at the moment is that that there is not enough capacity to sell it off at lower rates.
What would they be able to cite for the prices after the cable has landed?