Price Drop: It's your turn

[pkid]

With Neotel arriving and a rumoured Telkom ADSL price reduction flitting around the mybroadband forums I thought it was time to throw the ball in Vodacom's court. Vodacom it is your turn to reduce data fees! Come on! That's all and thank you for listening

 

[Dovi]

Personally I'd rather see a drop in voice costs :/

 

[Highflyer_GP]

Personally I'd rather see a drop in voice costs :/

Same here.

Besides, data prices would depend on the wholesale rate that Vodacom receives. Telkom may be reducing their ADSL line prices, but how certain are you that they'll be reducing their wholesale data prices?

 

[Steinie]

http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iArticleId=4423669

Enough to make any subscriber sick!!

 

[medicnick83]

rumoured Telkom ADSL price reduction flitting around the mybroadband forums

What forums here?

No one can possibly be speaking about RUMORS because nothing has been said.

 

[caroper]

Take a look at this thread gdiza http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=119889

 

[pkid]

Vodacom and MTN are apparently laying their own fiber too. They can also buy from Neotel now unless I am mistaken? I am just keeping my eye on that R12 billion profit they made. Definitely not struggling to rake in wads of cash.

 

[matrixweb]

Vodacom and MTN are apparently laying their own fiber too. They can also buy from Neotel now unless I am mistaken? I am just keeping my eye on that R12 billion profit they made. Definitely not struggling to rake in wads of cash.

true , they are laying fibre also , soon we will have good prices because we will have telkom , neotel , mtn , vodacom all with fibre poor cellc and vmobile

 

[Ghost02]

I agree that the data rates should come down. I'm paying R250 for a lousy 500mb. Compared to what I can get from a fixed line provider. They don't even have proper coverage I'm running at much below 100kbps

 

[pkid]

Hopefully Neotel will give them some competition and "encourage" them to reduce their rates...

 

[Ghost02]

If the Adsl prices decrease that much and 3G doesn't there will be very little people left with vodacom.

 

[pkid]

I think that the one thing that has always been in the favour of the cellphone guys is mobility and the fact that some people can't get ADSL, whether their exchanges are set up for it or they have been waiting for months for Telkom. Now that you will be able to get wireless for Neotel it might put the mobile providers under pressure in that I can now take my modem with me and use it at work and at home.

 

[TMoose]

I agree. Prices should come down, especially considering the speeds many people are getting from HSDPA. Mine disconnects often, is unresponsive, speeds are unpredictable at best (sometimes I get 200KB/s others 5). I'm on a 2GB contract but often need more which means I fork well over R1000 over to Vodacom most months when I add my calls, this for something I can get from our evil fixed line operator for almost half that. It's rather quite depressing that I signed a contract or I would have gotten rid of it quite some time back already.

In general I can stomach the quality of the service, but it's way overpriced for what you're getting. Many things in SA is over priced for what people are earning, don't see why Internet access should be one of those things.

 

[Ghost02]

TMoose I completely agree with you, I can't wait for this contract to end so I can go to fixed line, hopefully I'll have stable speed, no dissconnections and lower cost per GB.