SEACOM reveals pricing

Ekhaatvensters said:
So what don't you belive? The cable is being built, and these are the prices.

What remains a problem is the local network, i.e getting those prices to us. Hopfully Neotels network will be able to get it done cheaply. I can't wait either. :D
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how exactly are they going to get those prices to us? telkom is not just going to let them walk in and dominate the bandwidth market

who says telkom does not lower prices and put them outta business

i will believe it when i see the prices and i can actually use the bandwidth i paid for until then i dont think about it or get my hopes up
 
killadoob said:
how exactly are they going to get those prices to us? telkom is not just going to let them walk in and dominate the bandwidth market

who says telkom does not lower prices and put them outta business

i will believe it when i see the prices and i can actually use the bandwidth i paid for until then i dont think about it or get my hopes up
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if telkom lowers prices to try put them out of business won't you being seeing these low prices then?

afaik telkom has no veto on who can provide internet access to the country.
 
Telkom will now start reducing their (ripoff) prices citing "improved customer demand" and all the usual marketing gobbledygoog to make us believe they're the patron saints of internet and that they're doing us a huge favour.
 
ajax said:
Telkom will now start reducing their (ripoff) prices citing "improved customer demand" and all the usual marketing gobbledygoog to make us believe they're the patron saints of internet and that they're doing us a huge favour.
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This is exactly what I'm thinking as well.

Just as Vodacom and MTN upgrades their HSDPA speeds, Telkom can "suddenly" upgrade their line speed from 1Mbps to 4Mbps and now they can "suddenly" increase their uplink speed.

If I was Telkom I'd be very worried about these prices.

How long before Telkom makes an announcement? Should be interesting!

Even if the consumer pays R1,000 per Mbps it would still be cheap.

A few calculations: 1Mbps = 128 KB/s = 7.5 MB/minute = 450 MB/hour = 10 GB/day = 300 GB/month!
 
This is excellent news and the prices are great! I seriously have a large deal of respect for the SEACOM guys... The only thing I'm worried about now is the *&^%$# DOC mingling in again. If they do, I WILL assassinate a certain doughnut gobbling monstrosity!
 
Telkom will only start looking at reducing pricing come 17 June 2009. As was said here, with a big announcement of how they are touching themselves...argh I mean tommorow and how wonderfull they are for the country. This time they'll probably attempt open heart surgery in Alaska, or something to that extent.

Well done SEACOM, your landing is eagerly awaited by SA, heck feel free to invade, not just land :D
 
So 9.6 Gbps @ $1 663 875 (US Dollar??) = R 267.00 per Mbps per month how exactly???
 
Very Very nice

Now all we need is for Neotel to get their act together. Then I can get this useless piece of Helkom's equipment (phone) off my premises. I don't think SEACOM are doing anyone a favour, they are just charging us what is the going rate. They will make lots of bucks and SA public will eventually have the internet. Thank Goodness that the DOC has no involvement. Simply that fact alone ensures it will be a success
 
Would really appreciate it if someone from MYADSL could get in to have a chat to these SEACOM folks and get the skinny on it all.

There will be a clarification from the DoC when the time is right which will bugger this all up though, I bet 50 megabytes on it (thats 100 ront).
 
I think that you guys might be confused about something.

Telkom does not own the SAT3 cable, they only control access to the landing stations in SA and can therefore charge consumers a price of their choosing after applying contention ratios, based on how much they are themselves being charged.
The largest investors in the cable are : France Telecom (12.08%) ; Nitel (8.39%) ; and TCI, a subsidiary of AT&T (12.42%) and VSNL (8.93%). The total investment for both the SAT3 and SAFE portions of the cable was US$595 million.
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The consortium determines the pricing per Mbps, not Telkom. They sell bandwidth to Telkom at a price between R 3 500-00 and R 11 000-00, as stated in the article.

Basically what this means is that if the SAT3 consortium don't lower their price to match Seacom's offering, then Telkom is screwed because there's nothing that Telkom can do about it even if they wanted to.

WillSmith said:
Even if the consumer pays R1,000 per Mbps it would still be cheap.

A few calculations: 1Mbps = 128 KB/s = 7.5 MB/minute = 450 MB/hour = 10 GB/day = 300 GB/month!
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It's very difficult to predict consumer pricing based on wholesale bandwidth pricing, mostly because we are unsure factors such as contention ratios.
 
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Muther trucker.. those prices are absolutely amazing in comparison to anything else we have access to... jees.
 
"Brian Herlihy, SEACOM president, said that the idea behind the cable is to offer international bandwidth at a lower price but to increase usage to ensure profits."
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omg. a real proper business strategy, here in South Africa. no free phone, no Game voucher, no 2 year tie-in.

let's increase usage to ensure profits. that should go on the boardroom of every company in this country.
 
hoover99 said:
omg. a real proper business strategy, here in South Africa. no free phone, no Game voucher, no 2 year tie-in.

let's increase usage to ensure profits. that should go on the boardroom of every company in this country.
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That's what we're trying to tell those numbnuts in the DoC all along...
 
BobbyMac said:
So 9.6 Gbps @ $1 663 875 (US Dollar??) = R 267.00 per Mbps per month how exactly???
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9.6 Gbps = 9 830.4 Mbps

$1 663 875 / 9 830.4 Mbps = 169.258118

169.258118 U.S. dollars = 1 294.80434 South African rands

Which means that 1 Mbps = R 1 294.80434 NOT "R 267.00 per Mbps per month"

So I see your point dude but it is awesome news all the same. By the way all calculations were done by Google so shouldn't be any mistakes :D
 
Scorpion said:
9.6 Gbps = 9 830.4 Mbps

$1 663 875 / 9 830.4 Mbps = 169.258118

169.258118 U.S. dollars = 1 294.80434 South African rands

Which means that 1 Mbps = R 1 294.80434 NOT "R 267.00 per Mbps per month"

So I see your point dude but it is awesome news all the same. By the way all calculations were done by Google so shouldn't be any mistakes :D
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No one ever said that the STM-64 prices were per month...
 
rpm said:
No one ever said that the STM-64 prices were per month...
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The price for an STM-64 connection, supplying 9.6 Gbps of bandwidth, is $ 1 663 875 or R 267-00 per Mbps per month.
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Ok I get what you are saying rpm but the use of the word "or" is what made it a bit deceiving. It seems to suggest that both options are "per month"
 
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