Parkview - Vox via DFA pricing released

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These packages seem like the best FTTH prices yet.
https://www.voxtelecom.co.za/fibre-to-parkview

Get high-speed fibre internet from Vox Telecom today! Dark Fibre Africa, in partnership with Vox Telecom, has launched fibre-to-the-home in Parkview, one of the first suburbs in South Africa to get fibre. Vox Telecom is offering you a range of affordable fibre bundles that will change the way you connect.

Traditionally only available to corporates, fibre is now available in your home. All fibre bundles from Vox Telecom include:

Fibre line rental
Premium-grade Fat Pipe data
1GB of Mobile Data (3G/4G data)
A Vox Supafone – a DECT handset for making calls over your fibre line
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And double the data if 24 month contract.

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What I don't understand is why is vox on the vuma network so much cheaper at R199 month for 4Mb uncapped, where as the prices increase and are not uncapped on the DFA (Parkview) and Smartvillage (Waterfall) network. Is vuma offering a better price for the ISP?
 
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Dan C mentioned upload speeds and i think we have been conditioned to accept that they are always lower than download.

The above result was from a www.greencom.co.za FTTH project in Glenferness.
 
paulcolmer said:
i think we have been conditioned to accept that they are always lower than download.
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It's partly conditioning and partly because we come from an ADSL background and see a lot of GPON going in, not to mention the 3G/LTE standards.

Of course, optical networks themselves are obviously capable of symmetrical rates and for business, this is often the way to go.
 
jackshiels said:
No, some FTTH providers charge more for line rental than others. It affects pricing accordingly.
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That makes total sense. I'd be interested to see exactly how they filed that with ICASA, to allow for the discrepancy (either a separate tariff for each area, or just showing their portion of the add-on).
 
That's right, although generally (and this is definitely the case with wireless techs) the standards groups first set the target, has it approved and then develops the spec to match, with a little bit of back and forth. In other words, the tech was only agreed because the concept of higher download was agreed first, based on observed usage
 
Which is why i'm watching all these G-PON and GE-PON FTTH roll-outs with much interest. I wonder how people will react when they realize that their wonderful new fibre install is actually hardware limited at max 40Mbps down and 20 Mbps up because it's a GE-PON split 64 ways.
 
dotVIBE said:
Which is why i'm watching all these G-PON and GE-PON FTTH roll-outs with much interest. I wonder how people will react when they realize that their wonderful new fibre install is actually hardware limited at max 40Mbps down and 20 Mbps up because it's a GE-PON split 64 ways.
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All internet access is split this way, often at even higher contention than this. Telkom gives a couple of hundred people 600Mb-1Gb/sec metro ethernet backhaul from their newer units (MSAN units are meant to serve up to 1000 afaik) - older DLAMs are capped at 150Mb/sec if I recall correctly. Bandwidth doesn't have to be allocated exactly because people rarely use the internet all at once. This is why ISP's offer cheaper night access.

Word is that Parkhurst backhaul is utilised at something like 20-25% of capacity because there are never situations where every line is running 100Mb/sec for a continuous time (caps negate this too). Hell, even South Korea uses this form of GPON and their internet is blazingly fast. You can rest assured that people will be able to max their line speeds out when the need arises.

The day you have a 1:1 contention 100Mb/sec line is the day backhaul rental drops by a very significant margin indeed.

EDIT: I'm sure MickeyD can shed some informed light on all this if I'm wrong about the numbers.
 
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dstvnothingon said:
What I don't understand is why is vox on the vuma network so much cheaper at R199 month for 4Mb uncapped, where as the prices increase and are not uncapped on the DFA (Parkview) and Smartvillage (Waterfall) network. Is vuma offering a better price for the ISP?
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Prices have gone up. Now it's listed as R499 probably was a pricing error to begin with . I hope everyone benefited.

https://vuma.venturanext.se/Service...GZKCH7BHlyp5%2bi9XQ6HDXMTCrwY8XipuindoeTGA%3d
 
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