Neotel explains 40Mbps NeoBroadband fibre trial

So who is providing the access link to the house and at what cost? If not the consumer then who is carrying that cost?



*because nothing in life is free!
 
I believe the developers installed the last-mile themselves... The info is available on the maboneng youtube vid.
 
Pavan said:
I believe the developers installed the last-mile themselves... The info is available on the maboneng youtube vid.
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In that event the purchasers of the property are carrying the cost and it is built into the house. Effectively the cost of living in the places is higher but there is cheap internet available - but not really that cheap actually. If you add this pricing in then it doesn't fair as favorably.

My general view is that this is something which actually needs to happen for FTTH to happen for home owners to purchase into small fibre owning companies that own from exchange point to individual property.
 
"Neotel added that they have not made any decisions on whether they will offer similar products in other areas."

In other words the rest of us can forget about it. Basically Pie in the Sky.
 
Paul Hjul said:
In that event the purchasers of the property are carrying the cost and it is built into the house. Effectively the cost of living in the places is higher but there is cheap internet available - but not really that cheap actually. If you add this pricing in then it doesn't fair as favorably.

My general view is that this is something which actually needs to happen for FTTH to happen for home owners to purchase into small fibre owning companies that own from exchange point to individual property.
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And included in the home-owner's mortgage bond over 20 years...
 
Yes the cap is restrictive, but when compared to similar capped products I say it's pretty good. Currently using 8ta's 10GB for R199... so R329 for 20GB would suit me fine, that and the fact that it's a start to rolling out FTTH!
 
MickeyD said:
And included in the home-owner's mortgage bond over 20 years...
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Pretty much. But if you set up asset holding companies which the home owner is a part owner of the

So I buy R100k worth of shares in a Suburb of Donkeykong Fibre to Premises Holdings Pty (Ltd) when I buy a house in the Donkeykong area. The company is a class licence holder and makes access to their facilities to ECNS providers on a wholesale basis. The revenue is used more maintenance and any surplus is divided among the shareholders annually. If I want internet over the fibre in Donkeykong I use one of the ECNS providers who bills me accordingly. If I own a house in Donkeykong but don't live their when I rent out the premises my tenants choose whether to sign up for internet. My property is worth more because of the availability of fibre. If I need to borrow the money from the bank then its in my 20 year morgage just like the rest of my property.

You can have many of these body corporate like entities and they'd no doubt have a management agency and really a single manager to run several.
 
FTTH is a myth and will be for many years to come , a select few may end up with FTTH but that will be it .
The MSAN/ISAM project is much more feasible and will be much faster to roll out if handled correctly.
 
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