New Neotel data service here soon

w00t! Go Neotel!
Listening to your customer base is a major plus, actually doing something with that info to improve your service goes above and beyond from my experience with other companies in SA.

Good job, can't wait for this to come out!
 
No uncapped really takes alot away from the attraction of their service.

I would have been happy to pay a little extra for a REV A uncapped service, but them removing the option is just silly in my opinion.

I think they could have bumped the price up a little or even by 50% if they could gaurantee a 1-1.5mbps connection speed (with perfect signal) and latency of about 200ms max to local servers. A service like that would have sold like hot cakes I.M.O.
 
No uncapped really takes alot away from the attraction of their service.

I would have been happy to pay a little extra for a REV A uncapped service, but them removing the option is just silly in my opinion.

I think they could have bumped the price up a little or even by 50% if they could gaurantee a 1-1.5mbps connection speed (with perfect signal) and latency of about 200ms max to local servers. A service like that would have sold like hot cakes I.M.O.

What do you think? http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=141603
 
Get Durban going faster

Come on Neotel, give us Durban people good coverage!

25% of the South African internet population live within 50km of Durban Central radius. NORTH, WEST & SOUTH

NEOTEL blanket this 50km quickly and get the money printing machine rolling. Afterall i am sure you do need the Durbanites $$$.

Make it happen quicker !

Its only takes 150 Base Stations to do the blanket.

DxL - Team
 
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25% of the South African internet population live within 50km of Durban Central radius. NORTH, WEST & SOUTH

NEOTEL blanket this 50km quickly and get the money printing machine rolling. Afterall i am sure you do need the Durbanites $$$.

Make it happen quicker !

Its only takes 150 Base Stations to do the blanket.

DxL - Team

90% of all stats are made up (including this one) ;)

On a more serious note, thats quite interesting, where did you get those figures from?
 
90% of all stats are made up (including this one) ;)

On a more serious note, thats quite interesting, where did you get those figures from?


ever heard of Nielsen? Stats from ISP's etc are gathered by places like Nielsen that does research on things like this!.
 
neither neotell or telkom is there where i want them.so i can;t say anything good about them right now
 
mmm... Wonder if I can change over to this device and Neotel can take the old device back... see any pigs flying?
 
everything is "soon" with neotel, but I guess we need a new definition of the word, and to all the people that says "testing requires time" please for once in the life of Neotel give us a concrete deadline, we all need "time" to complete tasks, but non of us works with "soon" as a time frame, I can't see how anyone in the world today can operate with no deadline.

Coming back to the router, again we have a case of "we will offer multi-play" and end up with "This service will be a data only service with usage limits"

I won't call this a step in the right direction, its merely a turn towards the right direction and then "oops we just dropped the phone option and the uncapped option behind" no idea if they will "turn" back and pick those up again.

As with "aggressive" pricing, I believe a definition was also in order, on neoconnect if you take 10GBs its like 599 per month, if you take that with Openweb over their VPN service its voila, just R349 per month, maybe we can argue that there is still telkom line rental but to me its not that aggressive if openweb is offering their services from a resell and neotel, now has access to sat3 is still not really lowering prices significantly as their very "timeous" CEO stated "the portion from SA to london is 6x".

Then we come back to the all wonderful phrase of "we can only offer these service in coverage areas" gr8, thats understandable but please do stop using the word "major metropolitan" centres as if you have all those areas covered, I'm in a major metropolitan centre, but I have no coverage, and then if you go and check the coverage maps, gosh they have maybe covered the most major metropolitan centre of the gauteng region to around 30%? maybe less.

Hot air, just hot air.
 
Axesstel MV400 Series

Seems to be the
http://www.axesstel.com/fixed/3G_broadband_gateways.php?id=1

6 Multi-color LED Indicators
Receiver Diversity Antennas
1x EV-DO/IS-99/IS707A Data Capability (3.1Mbps FL/1.8Mbps RL max)
Data Interface ports for 1 RS232, 1 USB, and 4 Ethernet
Wi-Fi Feature
Built-in DHCP
PC and Web-based administration tool
OTA capable (IS-683/IS-683A)
RUIM (optional)
 
When is the launch of this product? The Neotel website needs to be updated as well.
 
Coverage on this device is 2.7 x better than on other devices. page 25: http://www.cdg.org/news/events/CDMASeminar/060606_CDMA450/11_LixinCheng_Axesstel.pdf

So now, Neotel has to triple their range on the maps, from 2km to 6km.

Neotel will soon launch a multi-user data offering which includes an Ethernet/Wi-Fi router

Sounds like it will be available from Monday (3 Nov).

No info on cost or packages available... will have to wait until Monday.

PS: Neotel looses money when they don't announce details of new packages/services before a month-end, since one has to give a month notice at your current provider.
 
Sounds like it will be available from Monday (3 Nov).

No info on cost or packages available... will have to wait until Monday.

PS: Neotel looses money when they don't announce details of new packages/services before a month-end, since one has to give a month notice at your current provider.

True, my MTN data bundle expires 26th monthly and I will use that up first before signing up with Neotel.

BTW, will their router support VOIP?
 
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