Seacom 2009

I'd say this article is slightly better than the last 50 we had.
 
So the whole salers will profit from this, while still charging us R3500+ because they have to keep the SAT3 as a backup connection. :sick:
 
ouch

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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...our bums are going to hurt for years still :(
 
Yes it is sad that we don't have much confidence in the service providers to brng us the advantage they will gain. However, I have my hopes pinned on one or two providers to come to the party. Wonder how long it will take for the cable to actually come on stream and sell capacity to service providers, once it has landed.
 
iv been seeing this news over here on sky and IM JUST SHOCKED africa is finally going to have real internet?
 
but isnt there 2 other lines also coming inbetween that time
 
Sky

DOOMIE61 said:
iv been seeing this news over here on sky and IM JUST SHOCKED africa is finally going to have real internet?
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Interesting if it made Sky news, I didn't think they gave a rats @ss about our telecoms. I would like to see the coverage, any idea which segment they covered it on?

Cheers
 
R267/Mbit/Month = 85c per GB

R3500/Mbit/Month = R11.15 per GB

R11000/Mbit/Month = R35.00 per GB

A significant cost reduction, even if you need to keep SAT3 as backup. Major outages are few and far between.
 
It's funny how when one reads this you really want to feel happy and excited.

But alas, there has been so many "saviour" dates in SA telecoms. Accompanied by increasingly "convinced-this-is-going-to-happen" scenarios.

Did the time finally arrive?
 
Gaz{M} said:
R267/Mbit/Month = 85c per GB

R3500/Mbit/Month = R11.15 per GB

R11000/Mbit/Month = R35.00 per GB

A significant cost reduction, even if you need to keep SAT3 as backup. Major outages are few and far between.
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yes and no.. i mean sure for the big guns it will save them from sat-3 but end of the day, there will be consumer cost which is determined by the big 5? It WILL however be interesting to see how much they charge as EVERYONE now knows how much it costs ;) so now we can check their mark up and bitch to CC/icasa.
 
sahopeful said:
It's funny how when one reads this you really want to feel happy and excited.

But alas, there has been so many "savior" dates in SA telecoms. Accompanied by increasingly "convinced-this-is-going-to-happen" scenarios.

Did the time finally arrive?
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Theres never gona be a big bang "savior" that gives us R200pm 20Mbps connections with 100GB caps overnight. All we can hope for is many steps in the right direction, and things will improve slowly. Its very frustrating but thats just how business (and politics) goes :(
 
Gaz{M} said:
R267/Mbit/Month = 85c per GB

R3500/Mbit/Month = R11.15 per GB
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Assuming you used a 30 day month. I got R11.06~ . It doesn't make any sense, because then how does Neotel make any money if a guy can download at a constant speed of 150KB/s 24/7 for 30 days. It would end up with 370GB and multiply that by R11.15 = R4134.29~

Am I missing something here.
 
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