SEACOM is here!

From what I've seen it just up to ISPs to take advantage of the new cable to drive down. I work for a tertiary institution that receives its bandwidth from TENET. We would have received a 1500% bandwidth increase this month but this the underlying infrastructure was not in place yet others wise we'd be cruising with a 600Mbs line for the same price.
 
However you choose to look at this, this is the single biggest telecommunications moment in the last 10 years. A lot to be happy about.
 
zain76 said:
From what I've seen it just up to ISPs to take advantage of the new cable to drive down. I work for a tertiary institution that receives its bandwidth from TENET. We would have received a 1500% bandwidth increase this month but this the underlying infrastructure was not in place yet others wise we'd be cruising with a 600Mbs line for the same price.
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It is things like this that will force Telkom to be competitive.
 
EVERYONE! All ISP's just dropped their prices by 30%!
.......over the next 9million years :rolleyes:
 
Welcome to the small pond of SA telecomms corruption, SEACOM.

Although I'm glad there's a new cable lighting up, I seem to twitch & flinch every time I see the name of "SA's 2nd national fixed line operator" having it's paws on it.

Change is good, though this is very much less that even almost ideal.
 
Lets try and be positive now, it started all happy and congrates etc. but now its going down to usual SA, complain and do nothing about it.
 
I wonder whether we will start noticing a difference in speeds. Will it be later today or what?

Just did a Vodacom Speedtest:

Down: 3754 kbps
Up: 339 kbps

and a Speedtest.net one:

Down: 510 kbps
Up: 30 kbps
Ping: 644ms

Interesting to see that the upload speeds has decreased all of a sudden. Where I use to get about 1200kbps up it's way down at the moment and this is on a Huawei E272 with specs HSDPA 7.2Mbps and HSUPA 1.4Mbps.

I reckon the speedtests will be erratic during the course of the day so lets give it a few hours to see how things progresses.
 
Wow you guys really seem excited about this hey :D

So what pricing reduction are we looking at, why is everyone so excited so you guys know something i don't other than seacom has arrived?

what does this mean for me though? I am also not so sure that seacom will have an affect on your 3g/hsdpa speeds.
 
It just takes a couple of ISPs to come up with lower pricing and you'll see it tumbling. I think WirelessG have started this and it looks like we will either get a 25% reduction or 25% increase in allocation of data. Speeds ... dependents on local loop capacity, which isn't great. Holding thumbs like everyone else.
 
CISCO

This is the part that irks me -- typical spin by people that know NOTHING about local conditions.

Yvon le Roux,
Cisco VP for Africa, added: "Cisco and SEACOM share a common goal to enable accessible broadband across Africa
While lowering the cost of communication to spur growth within urban and rural communities.
We're working with SEACOM to help transform Africa by outlining process change,
Building networks, and then providing the application services and expertise that support key services for citizens,
Such as education, healthcare, public safety, economic development, and national security.
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Have they had a look at their SA subsidiary :confused:

Have they worked out why they DESTROY ALL EOL Cisco equipment during upgrade cycles instead of making these available to the "re-furb" market :confused: ( ie.making Cisco equipment affordable to "shack dwellers" )

Have they had a look at the Cisco Network Academy program in SA :confused: ( NO working academy in KZN last time I looked ):(

Have they had a look at SA price of setting up an "Academy":(

Even with a 30% discount it will cost me over R2,000.00 to acquire the official Cisco Academy course books.:(

Do they know what it costs to acquire Cisco certification in SA :confused:

So much for EDUCATION :sick:


MW
 
I'm very happy that Seacom is finally here and i do think they will live up to their promises, they handled the whole thing great. BUT lets switch focus 2 another area, line rental will still choke us dry what is it these days 4mb(line) R413 + R120 = R533pm OUCH even before you've purchaced any bandwidth what so ever. O dont forget the once off R543.91 installation cost if you're a new customer. If i was telkom i would bump up that line rental to astonomical amounts right about now.
 
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JayN said:
It just takes a couple of ISPs to come up with lower pricing and you'll see it tumbling. I think WirelessG have started this and it looks like we will either get a 25% reduction or 25% increase in allocation of data. Speeds ... dependents on local loop capacity, which isn't great. Holding thumbs like everyone else.
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Their price drop had nothing to do with seacom.
 
My upload speed on neotel just jumped to 40Mbps+, download still at 2Mbps :(
 
This is a historic day indeed. Congratulations to Seacom and their team on a job well done and a project well planned and executed. To all the negative replies to this thread, whichever way you look at it, what Seacom has achieved can only benefit the country.
I just have to laugh at all the posts asking Seacom to rid cap’s and shaped bandwidth, as if they have any control of how ISP’s provision bandwidth :) The more ISP’s that get onboard with Seacom the more competition it creates, ultimately benifiting the customer.
I for one am looking forward to some healthy competition among our ISP’s.
 
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