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Question of the Day: Are you keeping your Prime subscription?
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blaaislaai
Executive Member
Cheap Broadband will be here in a few years
noswal
Executive Member
It's good to dream
sleez
Well-Known Member
I wont be able to sleep tonightI agree but job well done for Seacom
my chips are on some ISP's lowering prices soon - only need 1 ISP to go first.
Kuga
Expert Member
Not happening. With the price fixing cartel, it's not happening.
Tango
Senior Member
I agree, I think it will be a slow start but they will eventually come down with prices....
+1. You've got to be pretty darn closed-minded/skeptic to not see that the prices will fall. How can we have all this extra capacity and none of it gets used? An internet rennaisance is taking place in this country and within the next year or two we're going to have made big progress
In a year or two we will be where the rest of the world was a year or two ago. We will never be comparable to the first world, if you want to live in a world where technology is up to date, move.
I do not expect existing players to reduce prices yet...
My guess is a new kid on the block, maybe even a Seacom start-up will do the job.
Once that happens the rest will follow or die.
Got to love capitalism.
Doubt very much many ISP were dumb enough to be tied to SAT3 or Telkom for too long a period.
Seacom is cheaper, that we know because one service provider has already drop prices...
The rest will follow.
Never expected a sudden collapse, they will wait to see how many subscribers that start losing, do the maths and then reshuffle.
Now for me, all I want to know is which ISP's will be using Seacom so i can switch from my current one.
Nothing really against them, just want to help kickstart the broadband revolution.
If we all stay with out current ISP's even if they provide a good service then thing will just take longer to change.
Support the revolution, move your money!!!!!!
My guess is a new kid on the block, maybe even a Seacom start-up will do the job.
Once that happens the rest will follow or die.
Got to love capitalism.
Doubt very much many ISP were dumb enough to be tied to SAT3 or Telkom for too long a period.
Seacom is cheaper, that we know because one service provider has already drop prices...
The rest will follow.
Never expected a sudden collapse, they will wait to see how many subscribers that start losing, do the maths and then reshuffle.
Now for me, all I want to know is which ISP's will be using Seacom so i can switch from my current one.
Nothing really against them, just want to help kickstart the broadband revolution.
If we all stay with out current ISP's even if they provide a good service then thing will just take longer to change.
Support the revolution, move your money!!!!!!
What lower latency? Does Seacom fibre use "light 2.0" with a faster speed? We are the bottom end of the world and you need to go halfway across the planet to get anywhere.
There might be reductions due to different landing areas, but it's not going to half.
There might be reductions due to different landing areas, but it's not going to half.
Also remeber that pure pings are a very bad way of testing latency. ICMP packets normally get a lower priority than other traffic, so what you see in pathping or ping is usually a much worse picture than it really is using a normal protocol
