R329/month for 40Mbps: ICASA

How about you lower my 4MB monthly rental first. Yea, that would make me happy.
 
ICASA’s Cost to Communicate programme will encompass a broadband value chain study, a re-assessment of mobile termination rates, local loop unbundling, and broadcasting regulations.
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Isn't that just supposed to be their Standard Operating Procedure?
Giving what you're meant to do a fancy name doesn't mean you're going to do your jobs better.
Or are you all just giving yourselves an out for missing your annual, November 1 deadline? :rolleyes:
 
It sounds great, but it is bull****. Firstly the indication isn't given what amount of data this would include - and if it is the line rental exclusively then we are hardly in the salivating space because its only half the current pricing. If this service is provided over wireless then frankly Vodacom provides me with LTE at R2 a month but only 1 meg.

ICASA doesn't provide the services, they don't own the network, they aren't in the market. ICASA needs to do their actual job - if they had pushed with facilities leasing enforcement 18 months ago Telkom's response would have driven lower costs and better service.
Moreover if ICASA wants to enter the domain of providing lower costs to communicate their focus needs to be on the under 10Gb per month consumers. Reliable prepaid data products at R50 per gig without expiry is a great point in the digital divide.


More importantly - and as a consumer for whom a 40Mbs uncapped service is
 
ICASA’s Cost to Communicate programme will encompass a broadband value chain study
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That is excellent news and just what we need is even more money and time wasted on consultants tasked with trying to find out why broadband costs as much as it does and never actually coming to any useful conclusions :rolleyes:

Thank you ICASA for being the useless regulator that you are, please continue to disappoint everyone.
 
Paul Hjul said:
It sounds great, but it is bull****. Firstly the indication isn't given what amount of data this would include - and if it is the line rental exclusively then we are hardly in the salivating space because its only half the current pricing. If this service is provided over wireless then frankly Vodacom provides me with LTE at R2 a month but only 1 meg.

ICASA doesn't provide the services, they don't own the network, they aren't in the market. ICASA needs to do their actual job - if they had pushed with facilities leasing enforcement 18 months ago Telkom's response would have driven lower costs and better service.
Moreover if ICASA wants to enter the domain of providing lower costs to communicate their focus needs to be on the under 10Gb per month consumers. Reliable prepaid data products at R50 per gig without expiry is a great point in the digital divide.


More importantly - and as a consumer for whom a 40Mbs uncapped service is
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agree with your post
more info http://www.mabonengbroadband.com/
 
Huh?!?!?!?:wtf: In one fell swoop we are suddenly price competitive with international standards, and this coming from ICASA who could not come up with a suitable solution on LLU in ~3yrs.Hehehehe...interesting times.

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