Seacom cable brings the rain

Just to explain the many SEACOM articles: We bring you a few of the views from respected journalists. No-one really knows what impact it will have, so good to hear what a few experts have to say.
 
The anticipation is high but unfortunately after many years of broadband bashing and pure money laundering and consumer exploitation the morale and optimism fail to emerge. In short I am not even getting excited by the Seacom or any other "broadband" news anymore at all.
 
It's all rosey views from the journalists when we've had people in the industry post on the forum that there is really no price difference. Maybe look at some of the posts from the forum as well for some articles, as they are closer to the truth than someone just getting false hope up.
 
Telkom is already in trouble.........while its broadband offerings are frankly pathetic. Vodacom actually has more broadband subscribers.
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Pathetic? No other SP in the country provides better value at the moment, so why single out Telkom. I'm very happy with my 4 Meg line and local bw as are many users. By international standards, yes, everyone is far behind.

Vodacom may have "more subscribers" but can you really count someone using 0-100 MB per month (often on GPRS) as a broadband subscriber or rather as an occasional mobile internet user?

Let's not even speak about MTN.

Neotel are even worse.
 
First of all, we're singling out telkom to blame because they are to blame for all the sh*t we're in at the moment, you might be happy with ur 4Meg lines but its really not nearly 4Megs when you go international and honestly with only 3Gigs a 4Mb line is rather useless for anything meaningful that uses 4Mbps of bandwidth.

Back to the article, all the journalists must be dreaming on cloud 9 or something, we've had these kind of articles for sooooo long now, I'm sure on cloud 9 everything looks amazing but down here on earth........... hardly ever registers.

Again I must say, why can't a new ISP come into the country, contract free with these blood sucking evils, and offer a super competitive service that the others can't catch up???? won't they then have to lower their prices even if they run at a loss to compete? We might see consolidation faster then we can imagine.

Somehow I believe there are other forces at play, its been at play all along.
 
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While Herlihy says wholesale Internet prices have come down by about 90% since the cable was announced in 2007, Internet service providers are locked into old prices for a while yet.
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:confused::confused::confused:

Where!!! I haven't seen prices come tumbling down!
 
Gaz{M} said:
Pathetic? No other SP in the country provides better value at the moment, so why single out Telkom. I'm very happy with my 4 Meg line and local bw as are many users. By international standards, yes, everyone is far behind.

Vodacom may have "more subscribers" but can you really count someone using 0-100 MB per month (often on GPRS) as a broadband subscriber or rather as an occasional mobile internet user?

Let's not even speak about MTN.

Neotel are even worse.
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Agreed, as pathetic as Telkom are, they are the best in SA lol. I may hate that fact but it's a fact.
About the higher subscriber base at Vodacom - virtually everyone with a phone is considered a broadband subscriber - never mind the fact that the majority don't even know it and don't use it beyond their 10cm phone screens.
 
The thread title reminds me of the movie Transformers where the guy says "Bring the rain!!!"

Totally love it... oh, yes, and the article too :p
 
Gaz{M} said:
Pathetic? No other SP in the country provides better value at the moment, so why single out Telkom. I'm very happy with my 4 Meg line and local bw as are many users.
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I agree.
20GB local bandwidth from Telkom can be way more useful than 1GB international bandwidth from VodaCom/MTN
 
Faster, cheaper broadband access

I'll believe it when I see it.
If Neotel's roll-out of competitive services to Telkom is anything to go by, don't hold your breath.
As for the ISP's - how much do you think they will lower their prices when they can sign contracts for cheaper broadband? Their current margins are based on high Telkom costs. They will try and maintain those margins despite the lower costs.
 
gregmcc said:
:confused::confused::confused:

Where!!! I haven't seen prices come tumbling down!
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I think he means along the entire Eastern Seaboard of Africa. Remember, we are not the only country serviced by Seacom.

But yes... it does sound a bit suspect.
 
Garyvdh said:
I think he means along the entire Eastern Seaboard of Africa. Remember, we are not the only country serviced by Seacom.

But yes... it does sound a bit suspect.
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Pretty sure that is refering to the Telkom controlled line, and the SA section.
 
rpm said:
Just to explain the many SEACOM articles: We bring you a few of the views from respected journalists. No-one really knows what impact it will have, so good to hear what a few experts have to say.
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Could you please inform all these "journalists" that Telkom already dropped their wholesale pricing a few months ago in direct competition to Seacom's pricing and that nobody has said a word about it yet? Nor reported on this? Or that this has already saved some companies a **** load of cash but that the consumer is still seeing nothing?
 
local ends

international bandwidth could be $1 per meg but the local end pricing problem is the next issue its around $800-1200 + atm
 
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