R3807 per Mbps for SEACOM bandwidth

rbarryza said:
Someone should tell the person that wrote this article that we use a space as thousands separator, not a comma. The comma is actually used as the decimal separator in South Africa (it's the SI standard), even though a lot of people seem to use a point (in error). So even if you choose to use a point for decimal, never, EVER use a comma as the thousands separator. It's just confusing. Don't do it. And remember, I'm watching you!
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Thanks for the feedback.

South Africa can be seen as something of an anomaly when it comes to using a ‘,’ as a decimal separator. I personally prefer using a ‘.’, and if memory serves this is what we used in university mathematics as well. To use a ‘,’ simply causes too much confusion for my liking :)
 
rpm said:
R3807 per Mbps on SEACOM

Have you wondered who is behind Screamer Telecoms and DigiChilli’s low cost uncapped ADSL services? Here is the answer.
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this was from an old article

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Telecoms/5002.html

Seacom has already outlined what sort of pricing it will offer, and the savings to South African users are expected to be between 70% and 80%. Seacom will be offering a 9.6 Gigabit per second (Gbps) wholesale connection at R267 per Mbps (megabit per second) per month. The SAT-3 cable currently costs between R3 500 and R11 000 per Mbps per month.
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R267 and R3807??

either seacom hasn't done what they said they would, or R3807 is still an absolute rip off
 
rbarryza said:
Someone should tell the person that wrote this article that we use a space as thousands separator, not a comma. The comma is actually used as the decimal separator in South Africa (it's the SI standard), even though a lot of people seem to use a point (in error). So even if you choose to use a point for decimal, never, EVER use a comma as the thousands separator. It's just confusing. Don't do it. And remember, I'm watching you!
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Did not know that.
 
ave said:
this was from an old article

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Telecoms/5002.html



R267 and R3807??

either seacom hasn't done what they said they would, or R3807 is still an absolute rip off
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R267 for the STM-64 which probably costs a couple hundred million. (perhaps someone will know the exact price)

R3807 is based on the STM-1 portion size which only costs a couple million.
 
rbarryza said:
Someone should tell the person that wrote this article that we use a space as thousands separator, not a comma. The comma is actually used as the decimal separator in South Africa (it's the SI standard), even though a lot of people seem to use a point (in error). So even if you choose to use a point for decimal, never, EVER use a comma as the thousands separator. It's just confusing. Don't do it. And remember, I'm watching you!
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I NEVER use a comma as decimal separator as I think it's wrong (personal preference). ;)
 
bawrak said:
So, if you assume a contention ratio of 20:1 on a 256kbps connection:

R3800 / 20 / 4 = it costs the ISP R47 per 256kbps Uncapped connection

Of course you need to factor in other costs as well (local transit, access to Telkom adsl, staff and support etc)...

This doesn't look to bad but I probably missed something (big)...
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Yeah. IPConnect from Telkom is at least another R5K/mbps added on to that, depending on volume.
 
bawrak said:
So, if you assume a contention ratio of 20:1 on a 256kbps connection:

R3800 / 20 / 4 = it costs the ISP R47 per 256kbps Uncapped connection

Of course you need to factor in other costs as well (local transit, access to Telkom adsl, staff and support etc)...

This doesn't look to bad but I probably missed something (big)...
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give 20*4 people each 256k uncapped of a single 1M line, and you effectively only give them 12.8k guarantee, since everyone who takes a domestic uncapped solution is wanting to download as much as possible. Each person may have a 256k driveway, but the main road is only 1M.

(See I used a period as a decimal... cos that's how I roll mofo... :D )
 
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jannievdberg said:
What I want to know is, where is WebAfrica and the likes? I really dont want to move unless my hand is forced so to speak. Come one WA, when are we getting cheap cheap?! I was part of the trial and they said something about a new product or something.....please RSVP WA.
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Buddy if your hand ain't forced yet you've got too much money lying around. My wallet was forced long before my hand :D
 
dabbler said:
I NEVER use a comma as decimal separator as I think it's wrong (personal preference). ;)
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Like I said, a lot of people use the point for decimal. That's ok by now (through sheer weight of numbers using it), but using the comma for digit grouping causes great confusion, just because some people use it for decimal. Sticking to spaces for thousands, and then comma or point for decimal removes any possible confusion. That's why the ISO 31-0 standard states as well. It's only really Americans that still use the comma for thousands separator (digit grouping), and then only people not from a science background. They're also the only people that drop the 0 from a number smaller than 1 and larger than 0 : e.g. they write .75 in stead of 0.75

Man, I love being pedantic! :) But enough of this off-topic rambling now.
 
Seeing as we talking about BCSNet: Screamer and DigiChilli. I figured I'd post some info on both Screamer and DigiChilli's Entry level packages.

Screamer = R399 for 384k Uncapped + R35 for a public IP (monthly) + R400 for a router to use a public IP. Without the router cost you looking at R144 per 128k

DigiChilli = R300 for 256k Uncapped (this includes a public IP and no special router required) at R150 per 128k or if you take their Mild package its R500 for 2x 256k connections which works out to R125 per 128k
 
Vegeta said:
Buddy if your hand ain't forced yet you've got too much money lying around. My wallet was forced long before my hand :D
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Nope he likes the vaseline so much that he can't be bothered to move is hand :D
 
rbarryza said:
Like I said, a lot of people use the point for decimal. That's ok by now (through sheer weight of numbers using it), but using the comma for digit grouping causes great confusion, just because some people use it for decimal. Sticking to spaces for thousands, and then comma or point for decimal removes any possible confusion. That's why the ISO 31-0 standard states as well. It's only really Americans that still use the comma for thousands separator (digit grouping), and then only people not from a science background. They're also the only people that drop the 0 from a number smaller than 1 and larger than 0 : e.g. they write .75 in stead of 0.75

Man, I love being pedantic! :) But enough of this off-topic rambling now.
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No, no. I love the off-topic stuff.
I have NEVER heard of using a comma as a decimal point and because the americans use it as a seperator AND they write all the software (i.e. Excel) it is better to just always use the decimal point as the decimal point (?? damn, now I've confused myself), you know... the full stop. This way when you see a comma being used as a seperator as in this article there is no confusion.
Personally I thought the 3 digits after the comma was a dead give-away.
 
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