SEACOM is here!

Juggernaut said:
Honestly though... G-Connect is cheap enough. My only worry now is latency.
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Do you honestly feel that it is a fair price? I'm not saying you should be complaining, but do you feel you are getting a good deal?
 
kingrob said:
Think if we're realistic about it, prices won't come down....maybe a leetle bit as an incentive to move your ISP.

But as I understand it, Seacom just splashed $600m and I think they want that money back ASAP.
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Indeed. Step in the right direction though, no doubt!
 
Well done Seacom. Been looking forward to this day. Great to see what happens and what effect this will have on the market now. This achievement is truly a breath of fresh air.
 
alright...it's about time this dam cable landed...now where is the cheap reliable internet we have been waiting for lol
 
Now is the time for ISP's to at least inform us of their plans regarding Seacom.
I would rather be with one that plans to go with them (in addition to SAT3 for redundancy at present), than one who is not.
I can see potential savings in the offing (and it may just force telkom to keep pace as well).

I totally agree though on the Tekom line issue.
They have total dominance there and it forms the bulk of total cost.
THAT needs to bee addressed before we will see meaningful reductions.
 
Gekco said:
I totally agree though on the Tekom line issue.
They have total dominance there and it forms the bulk of total cost.
THAT needs to bee addressed before we will see meaningful reductions.
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Acting like a monopoly maybe? Goverment willing to take them to competition court? anyone? noone? wtf?
Bread, milk, cell providers, banks, pharmaceuticals and supermarkets investigated but no one even considers telkom? :confused: Drinking on the job maybe?
 
jamezjunk said:
Do you honestly feel that it is a fair price? I'm not saying you should be complaining, but do you feel you are getting a good deal?
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Ofcourse I want lower prices. And yes, compared to other ISPs, this is a good deal. I would rather pay R47 per gig than complain every day though. I am too young to get an ulcer. I have been paying R449 for 2.5 gig for as long as I have had internet. Now I am changing to 47 per gig. I am a happy camper.

I was just hoping that we would get approximately 225ms ping on Europe B.net.
 
I have a feeling that this is going to be like Y2K. All the hype leading up to it and on the day......NOTHING
 
I'd like wireless cost per gig to come down, i'm sitting with R89/GB which isnt killer, but isnt cool since ADSL users are paying 50 - 60 R/GB.

We all knew that SEACOM couldn't cut the cost of internet.... by much but it could increase the caps.

If i get a 50 to 100% increase in my cap and the extra GB costing R70 (ish) i'll be happy. for a first step in the right direction.
 
Does the launch of SEACOM mean that Neotel traffic will immediately go through the SEACOM undersea cable instead of through SAT3?
 
w.m said:
Does the launch of SEACOM mean that Neotel traffic will immediately go through the SEACOM undersea cable instead of through SAT3?
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Probably, but you'll never know because your traffic will never make it through the congestion on their towers :p
 
zeely said:
yup... a friend of mine is high up @ MTNSP and they've been paying f-all for bandwidth for a while now. It just hasnt been passed onto consumers yet.

So all thats happened is that there is a wholesale price war, but consumers are still getting raped
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Even if they were paid to use bandwidth, they still wouldn't pass the saving onto consumers.
Would you if you were in their position?

What has the increased competition in the market with all the new licences to self-provide actually brought forward? Greater profits, suffering consumers
 
Juggernaut said:
Ofcourse I want lower prices. And yes, compared to other ISPs, this is a good deal. I would rather pay R47 per gig than complain every day though. I am too young to get an ulcer. I have been paying R449 for 2.5 gig for as long as I have had internet. Now I am changing to 47 per gig. I am a happy camper.

I was just hoping that we would get approximately 225ms ping on Europe B.net.
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I gotta say, considering how cheap Seacom bandwidth is supposed to be, this isn't a great price. It's only slightly less than I've been paying for ages (R47 / gig vs R53 / gig).
SEACOM wholesale bandwidth was supposed to be one-tenth the cost of Telkom, although apparently ISP's were only gonna get it at a 30% saving from the likes of NEOTEL, that still amounts to around R15-R20 per Gig, surely??? OK, they still gotta make a profit, so let's say R25 - R30 per Gig is what they should be charging us!!!
 
Redundancy

w.m said:
Does the launch of SEACOM mean that Neotel traffic will immediately go through the SEACOM undersea cable instead of through SAT3?
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Nup -- Neotel has a precense at ALL the landing stations.

SAT3 / SAFE will be their redundant link for SEACOM. ( Maybe why Telkom had to upgrade it )

MW
 
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