Price reduction promise

Prometheus said:
Ah, the classic "your computer transmits an ip address while connected to the internet" yoke. Think about it, why would a site tell you not to visit it again? :confused: Perhaps promoting their silly anonymizing software so they show they "know who you are". lol :D Thing is that while you're connected to any p2p network everyone on the network can see your ip, that's not to say they know who you are and even then they must have a court order and find illegal stuff on your pc. If you don't like it then don't use p2p or run it through an anonymous port forwarding proxy and an app that supports it.

Although the makers of some apps have been sued in the past for promoting illegal downloads they are not illegal and using a network like G1, G2, or eD2000 certainly isn't illegal.
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ah i see, thanks for clearing that up for me:o
 
Hi all :) MTN apparently decreasing prices in the near future will definitely be welcomed by their customers :) But what effect it will have on market share is yet to be seen. Most people agree on 2 things when it comes to MTN : 1- MTN has the most stable and reliable GPRS/EDGE network. 2- MTN doesn't have enough 3G coverage. The other question would be the resulting action of the other major networks in the near future. Price wars? Highly unlikely. But we can always dream, can't we?:D
 
Cool, thanks, guess I could just put an MTN sim in my phone and run a tracert to a few intl sites, would probably show up, but I'm enjoying ADSL for now. :)
 
As far as I know, Neotel has already been supplying wholesale bandwith to MTN, VC, Cell C & Virgin. Surely the price should have come down already.

In March/April Neotel will be supplying ADSL packages to the public. Will be very interesting what their pricing will look like.

I am very tempted to tie myself into a 24 month data contract, but I think I will stick it out until Neotel's ADSL packages are announced.
 
rph72 said:
As far as I know, Neotel has already been supplying wholesale bandwith to MTN, VC, Cell C & Virgin. Surely the price should have come down already.
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Neotel has only set up some very basic test connections to the other networks and nothing of significant scale. To have any influence they must still agree on bandwidth fees that are low enough and supply enough to average out the Telkom costs. This will take years.
 
Syndyre said:
You mean upstream? Voda use a combination of IS and SAIX I think, mainly SAIX. Not sure about MTN.
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I have a feeling that they are using the SAT3/SAFE cable through Telskum which seems to have a problem in Asia. I have been trying for the last couple of hours to get a simple patch downloaded and I can't even get the US page up. I just paid R220 for 350 Meg of traffic whilst on holiday and am regretting it. There is Edge coverage here but I only got decent speed once and that was yesterday or the day before (11KBs). The rest of the time it has been sitting at 1.3KBs - 1.8KBs. Now it is totally useless on anything that is not local. I currently have 2 pages sitting on 16 minutes waiting to load and can't do a thing without the patch :(
 
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