Neotel expects more

[Nod]

Btw... I could have sworn there was an article where Neotel spoke about the unexpected high call volumes they were receiving... Was that just hot air like all of Neotel's previous hype? Personally I think when a company blatantly lies it should be liable to criminal prosecution.

If you had 0 subscribers one month, and 200 the next, the 10 calls more than 0 will be "unexpectedly high"

 

[Johand]

Btw... I could have sworn there was an article where Neotel spoke about the unexpected high call volumes they were receiving... Was that just hot air like all of Neotel's previous hype? Personally I think when a company blatantly lies it should be liable to criminal prosecution.

Well.. a lot of people have been phoning Neotel to sign-up. Neotel just made it impossible to actually sign up due to NO COVERAGE, 24-month contract (which would not have been that bad if there had been a secondary market for the device), no ethernet (errr... I still don't understand how they got THAT wrong). And of course more communication in terms of planned roll-out, upgrade information, a commitment of them to accomodate the early birds if there are major changes etc.

But mostly the no coverage thing. How could they launch in Cape Town without the CBD and Southern Suburbs but actually cover Pinelands, Maitland and Thornton???? (Not only is there more money in CBD and Southern Suburbs, but the population density is higher....) And where is the information about future coverage?

I think a lot of the problems will be solved if they just let their network engineers blog about new high sites, planned roll-out etc. A geek map of their fiber network might also be nice. The information coming from them is filtered PR bullsh1t. USELESS!!

 

[aadil-old]

Well.. a lot of people have been phoning Neotel to sign-up. Neotel just made it impossible to actually sign up due to NO COVERAGE, 24-month contract (which would not have been that bad if there had been a secondary market for the device), no ethernet (errr... I still don't understand how they got THAT wrong). And of course more communication in terms of planned roll-out, upgrade information, a commitment of them to accomodate the early birds if there are major changes etc.

But mostly the no coverage thing. How could they launch in Cape Town without the CBD and Southern Suburbs but actually cover Pinelands, Maitland and Thornton???? (Not only is there more money in CBD and Southern Suburbs, but the population density is higher....) And where is the information about future coverage?

I think a lot of the problems will be solved if they just let their network engineers blog about new high sites, planned roll-out etc. A geek map of their fiber network might also be nice. The information coming from them is filtered PR bullsh1t. USELESS!!

+300000

 

[RichardG]

I am very disappointed in Neotel, they are advertising so much on television and after those ads on television, their call centre hardly ever picks up the calls at all(Wait time 20minutes).
Certainly the speeds will increase, I first think they want to cover as much fibre network and use Wireless just as a alternative, and remember once they become a fixed line operator(fibre.cable) to your house. How many users will leave (Money thief)

I cannot wait for this technology hopefully by 2009/2010, they should start trials

CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision B

The Revision B (Rev B) is an evolutionary step of Rev A that consists of aggregating multiple EV-DO Rev A channels to provide higher performance for multimedia delivery, bi-directional data transmissions and VoIP-based concurrent services. The Rev B standard was published by the Third Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) under document number 3GPP2 C.S0024-B and by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and Electronics Industry Association as TIA/EIA/IS-856-B. Rev B will be commercially available in 2008.

Rev B builds on the efficiencies of Rev A by introducing the concept of dynamically scalable bandwidth. Through aggregation of multiple 1.25 MHz Rev A channels, Rev B enables data traffic to flow over more than one carrier and hence improve user data rates, latencies on both forward and reverse link. Peak data rates are proportional to the number of carriers aggregated. When 15 channels are combined within a 20 MHz bandwidth, Rev B delivers peak rates of 46.5 Mbps in forward link and 27 Mbps in the reverse link. With the 64-QAM scheme, the peak data rate in the forward link increase in a single 1.25 MHz carrier to 4.9 Mbps, an aggregated 5 MHz will deliver up to 14.7 Mbps and within 20 MHz of bandwidth up to 73.5 Mbps. By increasing the bandwidth, an operator can support more users per sector or lower their cost per megabyte to encourage longer usage. To achieve this performance, the 1.25 MHz carriers do not have to be adjacent to one another, thus giving operators the flexibility to combine blocks of spectrum from different bands. This is unique benefit of Rev B that is not available to WCDMA/HSDPA.

In addition to supporting mobile broadband data and OFDM-based multicasting, the lower latency characteristics of Rev B improve the performance of delay-sensitive applications such as VoIP, push-to-talk, video telephony, concurrent voice and multimedia and multiplayer online gaming. Rev. B also allows operators to consider the deployment of “hot zones” where the demand for data is high.