SEACOM price cuts will take time

Keep up the good work Iburst. It's this exact mentality which causes you to have nil customers.
 
Chill guys. Remember this is from the same company that thought they owned the colour orange :rolleyes:
 
ONLY?

Why does MM always only post articals that Mr Briggs said. What about all the other SP out there?

I would really like to know what their plans are for next couple of weeks?

Oh ja by the way... Screw you! Briggs
 
I agree with most comments to this article.

SEACOM is an open cable system, available to whomever wishes to purchase bandwidth from it. The key here is that its sold AT THE SAME PRICE to everyone - no matter how big or small you are (unlike SAT3/SAFE).

So, if Mr. Briggs wishes to "swallow up" the "savings" from SEACOM and spend it on all those stamps they use, then so be it, but the reality will be that ISP A will be selling a "SEACOM" product at price Rx and IBurst will sell "SEACOM" product B at price Rxx then the consumer will know who is being ripped off. Just because SEACOM landed, doesnt mean you can now all of a sudden increase your marketing and administrative costs to deal with all that bandwidth coming into the country. Your infrastructure has always been there, surely your return on investment has been reached and now its just pure profit as you milk the cable for extra bandwidth? Besides, charge the same amount and give higher caps then you will make a few people happier for a little while. Charge the same amount despite the cable and still enforce the crappy caps (40mb lol) then you will see the Brown hitting the Orange.

Your Orange wont be the sun rising, your orange will be the sunset
 
cyberbob1979 said:
I agree with most comments to this article.

SEACOM is an open cable system, available to whomever wishes to purchase bandwidth from it. The key here is that its sold AT THE SAME PRICE to everyone - no matter how big or small you are (unlike SAT3/SAFE).

So, if Mr. Briggs wishes to "swallow up" the "savings" from SEACOM and spend it on all those stamps they use, then so be it, but the reality will be that ISP A will be selling a "SEACOM" product at price Rx and IBurst will sell "SEACOM" product B at price Rxx then the consumer will know who is being ripped off. Just because SEACOM landed, doesnt mean you can now all of a sudden increase your marketing and administrative costs to deal with all that bandwidth coming into the country. Your infrastructure has always been there, surely your return on investment has been reached and now its just pure profit as you milk the cable for extra bandwidth? Besides, charge the same amount and give higher caps then you will make a few people happier for a little while. Charge the same amount despite the cable and still enforce the crappy caps (40mb lol) then you will see the Brown hitting the Orange.

Your Orange wont be the sun rising, your orange will be the sunset
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hahaha, welldone!! Full Marks for that comment
 
Your Orange wont be the sun rising, your orange will be the sunset[/QUOTE]

:D Oh yeah :D:D
 
I know more than a couple of people that have had their Iburst connections taken down due to bad or non existing service. Fight with Neotel over the colour Orange?? I bet Mr Brigs started that. Doesnt sound like bright fellow.
They offer really ****ty service AND propaganda to go with it. Thats right iburst keep it up, we will miss u :D
 
He's probably right when talking about iBurst customers. I mean we can get international ADSL for R50/GB and he's charging R199/GB. So if international cut down to R25/GB.... you'd still end up paying R174/GB through iBurst. Not much of a drop there at all.
 
Wyzak said:
Keep up the good work Iburst. It's this exact mentality which causes you to have nil customers.
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I've been a loyal iBurst customer for 5 years now. Hats off to iBurst for trouble-free internet during this time in 3 different suburbs that i've relocated to, albeit bandwidth at a premium cost. With SEACOM go-live being imminent I thought I would hold on for a bit longer with the hope that iBurst would join the fray of ISP's reducing their prices or increasing caps in the next few months.

Thanks for your honesty Mr Briggs, but you have just shattered that hope for me (and other iBurst customers). I am now ready to stop my monthly subscription to iBurst and sign up with the first major ISP that offers cheap broadband.

Why would iBurst allow such career limiting statements?

Like ShawnSA said, iBurst couldn't even place nice with Neotel as far as exclusive use of the colour orange, one wonders how well iBurst will co-exist with Neotel controls how wide the floodgates open.
 
How come ISPs offer free local bandwidth, or large bundles of local traffic, but can't offer similar reductions for the international when it becomes cheaper?!

I've already been marketed to, I've had the support (or not), I've got my ADSL2+ modem and I have a contract. I just want a larger bundle and a better per-gig rate.

Let me pay less for a 'non-redundant' service - give me a 'Seacom only' option, pass on the saving for redundancy and I'll be happy to live through the 3.6 days a year when Seacom may be down - heck, the local adsl and local e-mail services are often down anyway.
 
iburst and Mr Briggs can go suck eggs and blow bubbles :D. While companies/media are talking down the price of bandwidth, this idiot is doing the opposite. It looks like he wants to commit broadband suicide (lol).

I really hope this guy has to eat his words very soon.
 
Sorry Mr Briggs, but that's an absolute heap of steaming shyte right there. The additional input costs listed are common for all businesses, including international service providers who are able to provide cheap, reliable and affordable internet access to their customers. Having spent time overseas in various countries, I never once had the displeasure of hearing any of them state that they couldn't lower prices because they had to market to me. FFS Mr Briggs, use your noggin before trying to fool everyone with BS.

The inhibitive factors in providing cheaper and faster internet access has been the lack of bandwidth and the unnecessary control of the only international bandwidth this country had. Your own company has stated this. Now that the problem is slowly being resolved, you're attempting to bullschit the consumer into believing that it was in fact not the critical factor, and we won't see noticeable price reductions because of your marketing (not our problem and not unique to your business), the cost of modems (sorry but do the economies of scale not apply to your business?), the cost of infrastructure (um, again, not our problem and not unique - you telling me that because there is now additional bandwidth that the cost of additional infrastructure cannibalises any potential cost saving you could pass on to the consumer - try pulling the other one, twit), and let's not forget the pearler - support! WTF!?

Mr Briggs - evidently you need to hone your bullschitting skills a little more before your next foray into public relations. And to be honest, if you're not prepared to provide your clients with price reductions and attempt to use these drivelous excuses as reasoning, then you deserve every little bit of subscriber attrition that it results in.

Now for once in your life, listen to your customers instead of trying to preach to them. FFS...

EDIT: I'm disappointed that the 'staff writer' merely reported on Mr Briggs' comments and chose not to dig holes in the statements made. It would make for harder hitting journalism and be a far more interesting article had this been done. I believe the journalists are in a much better position to do this than many of us are and to take it a step further - I feel they have a responsibility to do so - for the sake of making a difference. Otherwise, what purpose do they serve apart from disseminating information?
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So...... Briggs is talking through a dirty nappy again.........


I see it this way:

Not all ISP's can have low prices, (what would a low price be then?) we need morons like these.

MrBEEP and friends must be laughing lekker at this dude behind his back......
 
The CEO of iBurst is a certain Mr Alan Devilliers Charles KNOTT-CRAIG, the same Mr Alan Devilliers Charles KNOTT-CRAIG who presided over Vodacom for many years.

Do you really think "price reduction" is even in his vocabulary?
 
I see a bright future for this dude in the future ANC candidate list.
 
Wonder what the REAL ISP's have to offer. How about interviewing them ?

Or is this a case of shop assistant mentality -
"I dono when the stock arrives. We have guys sitting on the beach at milnerton waiting for our container to wash up on the shore" :eek:

So can you REALLY tell me that SEACOM has not yet anounced pricing! COME ON!

Guess everyone's waiting for the next ISP to announce pricing and just make sure they stay 50c below that to share the cake "nicely"...why upset the apple cart with real competition? And so far all that is happening is we get a greater range of brown stuff from all the new providers with a license in hand.
 
DeesCent said:
While companies/media are talking down the price of bandwidth, this idiot is doing the opposite. It looks like he wants to commit broadband suicide (lol).

I really hope this guy has to eat his words very soon.
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and it will Happen.

OK GUYS, IBurst said it themselves - YOU WILL NOT BE GETTING ANY DISCOUNTS FROM IBURST ANY TIME SOON.

Question: So are any of you iBurst users still gonna be using iBurst by next year? :cool:

Time to move on, this excuse for a Internet Provider is going the way of the dinosaur.
you WON'T be getting faster Speeds either because their devices are incapable of doing anything above what they are doing now.

Cheers Iburst, looks like even Neotel is gonna squash you. Time to get a new Job iBurst workers, That company will liquidate soon.
 
george_vg said:
Guess everyone's waiting for the next ISP to announce pricing and just make sure they stay 50c below that to share the cake "nicely"...why upset the apple cart with real competition? And so far all that is happening is we get a greater range of brown stuff from all the new providers with a license in hand.
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HAHA....Dude, you just nailed the reason behind this sh1tfest article. :D
Just remember kids, Ferrari upgrades and maintenance come at a high price these days, we can't have "truly competitive" pricing without forcing the poor rich guy to give up his personalized service at Investment Cars...
 
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