Rev A Devices here in October!!!

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According to one of the tech guys at neotel we will have Rev A devices by October as well as new packages and contract that may be more targeted. I.E. Data/Voice only.

Now the only questions are:

What do us early adopters do with our neobricks or will neotel have some kind of exchange/upgrade policy?

Will the switch to Rev A have significant enough benefits to make it worth while switching?

Better/more stable latency? (please negods say yes)

Consistantly higher than HALF of the 3.1mbps peak speed?

Either way... at least we shall soon find out. Who wants to be a ginny pig?
 
And I signed up this month.
I'll only change if Rev A has an Ethernet port.
 
great, i hope that this extends there coverage areas too.

EV-DO Rev. A – Downlink, Uplink, VoIP and More
Rev. A introduces a number of significant changes to improve airlink
performance of EV-DO. Key aspects of Rev. A are:
• Peak rates of 3.1 Mbps on the downlink and 1.8 Mbps on the
uplink
• Sector capacity of 1.5 Mbps downlink and 1.2 Mbps uplink
• Enhanced QoS capabilities, improving the connection setup
time and lowering end-to-end delays
• VoIP capacity of up to 49 calls per sector
Major features such as QoS provide greater flexibility for supporting a
whole new class of applications that were not previously possible on
wireless networks. Some of the key applications enabled include:
• Voice over IP (VoIP)
• Push To Talk/Push To Media
• Video Telephony
• Multimedia Upload/Exchange
• Low-Latency Gaming
• High-Speed Web Browsing
• Large E-mail Attachments
• Video/Music Streaming/Downloads
• Multicasting
Most importantly, Rev. A provides a significant improvement to the user
experience of the wireless consumer
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Neotel told me before that if and when an ethernet device becomes available, that i would have to purchase it over and above any other neotel hardware i may have!

Exactly why i'm not signing up till i have that Ethernet Device!
 
It would be a shame if we have to pay for yet another piece of equipment. Hopefully Neotel will take the old phone off our hands and give us the new one...HOPEFULLY...
 
There are only like 600 subscribers in total :p , cant see why they cant foot the bill to upgrade the people that want and need the rev A device
 
Haha. Sweet. I hope they launch it soon and I can get one of the new devices. Never thought there would be a bonus to not having coverage yet!
 
pkid said:
Haha. Sweet. I hope they launch it soon and I can get one of the new devices. Never thought there would be a bonus to not having coverage yet!
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You will still need to wait for coverage. :(
 
I'm also very happy there was no PPPoE device yet, and that I don't have coverage yet.

The 2-years of iBurst contractual torture expires May next year, and at the rate Neotel is increasing coverage in Pretoria, I would most likely have coverage by then.

Things are starting to look brighter :)
 
Well I just got my device this morning ... not upset if it is true as my wife and I found the device and service better to what we had with Telkom. We also only have one home PC so its not an issue.

But, we are waiting for number portability and and device to handle her speedpoint and then we will switch her business over to Neotel. I see that as their major hurdle for business clients.
 
This is certainly great news.
I thought the new devices would of been out by August :( but delayed as usual.

Just the new price structure is what I am worried about.... .
Will the current packages stay the same.

I am willing to test the new device if they can map both of my devices on the same Telephone number :)
 
RichardG said:
This is certainly great news.
I thought the new devices would of been out by August :( but delayed as usual.

Just the new price structure is what I am worried about.... .
Will the current packages stay the same.

I am willing to test the new device if they can map both of my devices on the same Telephone number :)
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You seem to be very happy with Neotel. For this I hate you. Lucky SOB :p
 
cbrunsdonza said:
Well I just got my device this morning ... not upset if it is true as my wife and I found the device and service better to what we had with Telkom. We also only have one home PC so its not an issue.

But, we are waiting for number portability and and device to handle her speedpoint and then we will switch her business over to Neotel. I see that as their major hurdle for business clients.
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Can they not stick the speedpoint on fastnet (radiopad)
 
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