SEACOM’s effect will take time

One small problem with this press release.

How can IS invest in Seacom as an "anchor tenant" when Neotel are the only official tenants in SA and everyone else has to buy from them?
 
Garyvdh said:
Well, then let me post it for you and you can read it for yourself...

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Telecoms/2911.html
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=106107



in other words, the bandwidth will be cheaper, but you get to use more of it.
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Thats not what I read in that quote.

But let me tell you this, I have seen enough over the last 5 years to not believe anything anyone said or say on broadband issues unless I can see the benefit on my Monthly bill.

Believe whatever you want. In see a major dissapointment in the making AGAIN, and again and again.
 
portcullis said:
One small problem with this press release.

How can IS invest in Seacom as an "anchor tenant" when Neotel are the only official tenants in SA and everyone else has to buy from them?
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where did you read that? Neotel own and operate the landing station, but the sale agreements between Seacom and the other capacity tenants are direct agreements. Neotel is not the middle-man.
 
I am Penguin said:
Thats not what I read in that quote.

But let me tell you this, I have seen enough over the last 5 years to not believe anything anyone said or say on broadband issues unless I can see the benefit on my Monthly bill.

Believe whatever you want. In see a major dissapointment in the making AGAIN, and again and again.
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well, we will talk again before the end of the year. I'll bump this thread at that stage. ;)
 
portcullis said:
That's what we were told by Suveer Ramdhani, Seacom Sales in Mauritius - when we went off looking to set up a 2Mb link between Somerset West and Ipswich in the UK.
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an "anchor tenant" is not an exclusive rights holder. Seacom has several anchor tenants in South Africa. It just refers to the large portion of capacity that they have reserved. IS is also an anchor tenant in the SAT3 cable.
 
portcullis said:
And they are?
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The people who are buying capacity directly from Seacom. Seacom is not going to give you their entire customer list... but from public knowledge it includes Neotel, Telkom, IS, and the University network among others. You can be sure that the cellular network operators and other IECNS licence holders have also purchased a stake. An anchor holder refers though to a primary tenant. In other words they currently hold a high percentage portion of the capacity.
 
the imminent arrival of neotel does not mean lowering of telecoms prices
the imminent arrival of seacom does not mean lowering of telecoms prices
the imminent arrival of.........
blah blah blah blah

Can we pls stop publishing stupid articles like this?????
 
You know what, there is no hope for this countrys ICT. Those fat disgusting pigs in their slick black suits and large sedans... "We want SA to advance in the telecoms arena and become a leading player etc,etc,etc" its all bs, its all absolute bs. I am absolutely livid.....
 
there is only one prioroty that is BLACKS..


If you're white, youre wallet gets the priority.
 
Tweak said:
there is only one prioroty that is BLACKS..


If you're white, youre wallet gets the priority.
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ag p.ss off - I'm white and take offence to that statement. Everybody is paying the same on ISP's, black, white, indian, coloured .... jeez wtf, go back under your rock please.
 
The whole pricing exercise must be extremely tricky.

Where is the optimum point between cap size, cost and volume?

You have to optimise the point where people still pay the same as they are used to, but get more bandwidth and cap, without canabalising the high spenders who ultimately can't afford an uncapped solution for > R1000. Also, you don't want uncapped subscribers to now suddenly buy a 50GB package for less. How will the new volumes of subscribers change this equation? Let's be honest here - the majority of internet subscribers don't need more than 3GB, so you have to keep these base packages at a high price to make the bulk of your revenue.

I pity the pricing departments of the ISPs..
 
Gaz{M} said:
The whole pricing exercise must be extremely tricky.

Let's be honest here - the majority of internet subscribers don't need more than 3GB, so you have to keep these base packages at a high price to make the bulk of your revenue.

I pity the pricing departments of the ISPs..
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uhm .... this kind of statement reminds me of Bill Gates in the way back in dos days .... "who's ever going to need more than 64kb ram?"

Whatever !!! :rolleyes:
 
I agree pricing is important, but I also worry about deployment date. Everyone talks about June as though it is still happening, but hardly any large projects go live on the due date? Does anyone have an update? We're talking the next 7 weeks here!
 
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