SAOL 10gb: Is it for real?

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Unless Axxess pulls an ace out of their sleeve, I've pretty much decided to go with SAOL's R350 10gb package come November. Right now, 10 gigs of international traffic seem more useful than 30 gigs of local.

However, I've only seen the R350 figure quoted on this forum. SAOL don't have it on their website. Moreover, I just don't understand how SAOL are able to offer international bandwidth so cheaply. It's no secret that bandwidth is going to be sold to ISPs at R54 per gigabyte. Imaginet will be struggling to make a profit selling at bandwidth at a measly R60 per gig - but SAOL claim that they can sell bandwidth at R35 per gig? According to my very basic math skills, it is simply not possible for them to do that without making a loss.

I'm sorry to be so skeptical, and I realise that Telkom are the bad guys here, not the ISPs. But I also want to be able to make an informed choice about which ISP I'm going to go with at the end of the month. On the one hand, I'm quite excited about SAOL's offer, which means that ADSL won't be *completely* crippled after all. But rationally, knowing what SAIX's wholesale prices are, I just don't see how it's possible. Comments?
 
The SAOL R349 for 10Gig offer seems to be the best around for broadband international access (i.e. not one of the low speed proxy/vpn after your cap offers).

I have one further question for SAOL ...

Once your direct IPC bandwidth infrastructure goes live, will your users have the choice of staying on SAIX or will they have to migrate to your ICP bw to maintain the same price?

The reason why I ask is, the international performance of your IPC bw is an unknown quantity at the moment.

If migration is manditory, can you guarantee that its performance will at least match that of SAIX shaped?
 
Once your direct IPC bandwidth infrastructure goes live, will your users have the choice of staying on SAIX or will they have to migrate to your ICP bw to maintain the same price?
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Initially not all of our subscribers will me migrated to the IPC - we will leave a portion of our client-base on SAIX.

Migration will be mandatory if your account is selected to move to our own bandwidth - you will be given ample notice however.

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Pedantic
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Pedantic said:
Initially not all of our subscribers will me migrated to the IPC - we will leave a portion of our client-base on SAIX.

Migration will be mandatory if your account is selected to move to our own bandwidth - you will be given ample notice however.

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Pedantic
www.saol.com
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Apologies if this has been asked before but when is SAOL.com planning on implementing an IPC system?

This will be great news if the SNO comes to the party and offers bandwidth as a realistic price!
 
ipc only means something if you know how the internet is put together in ZA.
What it boils down to, is it allows and ISP to provide their own adsl bandwidth. It does not give them bandwidth or make adsl faster or anything like that it just means they can provide their own.
Most ISP in ZA are not big enought to provide ADSL bandwidth at a resonable price and thats why most dont use IPC
The problem is because an ISP is in a postion to provide their own bandwidth they have controll over the quality...which could be better or worse than SAIX/IS.
SAIX and IS are the biggest, so competeing will be REALLY difficult for any other ISP. Not even UUNET or WMEB have managed...
 
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