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MogenNaidoo

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News, adverts, posters all over the country are saying great things about the SEACOM cable. But with all this there is never ever a "direct" answer of how the prices will be affected. When are we going to see this price decreases? What will the price decreases be? Anyone came across a direct answer?
I've read somewhere that we will only see price decreases maybe sometime next year.
 
Dude the price wont drop in one day, it will decrease over years - Many years in South Africa's case :mad: (It already has somewhat) It's up to good regulation and a competitive market now :rolleyes:
 
Ry4n said:
Dude the price wont drop in one day, it will decrease over years - Many years in South Africa's case :mad: (It already has somewhat) It's up to good regulation and a competitive market now :rolleyes:
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The various players in SA - IS, Telkom, Vodacom, ISPs etc have no incentive to lower B/W pricing. They are happy making a huge profit on the lowly 1-3GB packages which make up the bulk of the internet b/w caps in SA.

There is no need to offer a competitive service in SA. Do we see the prices of electricity, cell phone calls, landline calls, petrol, video games, software and other things go down significantly? Heck no - in SA the customer base is small and and the local backhaul capacity is inadequate to support more customers - making caps larger or brining on more customers with CHEAP internet would just crash the whole system and force ISPs to upgrade the links, towers, stations - well this is not necessary. It's easier (and now more lucrative) to chug along on super expensive internet packages where only the select few can afford to have 4Mb/s uncapped unshaped accounts and download as much as they want while the rest has to sit with mediocre speeds on tiny caps which barely cut to do Windows, AV upgrades and email.
 
Just read a post from kpopat about Seacom in Kenya.

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?p=3028530

If kenya can do it then we have much more infrastructure, our companies are just greedy, period, the only way to solve our prob is if we burn telkom to the ground, period, and I do mean literally burning telkom down to the ground.
 
PeterCH said:
The various players in SA - IS, Telkom, Vodacom, ISPs etc have no incentive to lower B/W pricing. They are happy making a huge profit on the lowly 1-3GB packages which make up the bulk of the internet b/w caps in SA.

There is no need to offer a competitive service in SA. Do we see the prices of electricity, cell phone calls, landline calls, petrol, video games, software and other things go down significantly? Heck no - in SA the customer base is small and and the local backhaul capacity is inadequate to support more customers - making caps larger or brining on more customers with CHEAP internet would just crash the whole system and force ISPs to upgrade the links, towers, stations - well this is not necessary. It's easier (and now more lucrative) to chug along on super expensive internet packages where only the select few can afford to have 4Mb/s uncapped unshaped accounts and download as much as they want while the rest has to sit with mediocre speeds on tiny caps which barely cut to do Windows, AV upgrades and email.
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As much as I love the optimism of Garyvdh, The above is also so Damn true...
 
I can't make heads or tails about the pricing and the numbers that have been flying around....too much speculation about how it will affect the amount of bandwidth and cost of that bandwidth etc.

The seacom CEO has been in SA for a number of events, briefing mainly the business community on what to expect. I'm going to this one - http://www.frontfoot.co.za/mailers/scm/pg1.html hopefully
 
Cape Town radio station p4 had a mention of seacom bringing lower prices to consumers very soon.
I found the fact they they aired this today quite odd as seacom is old news.
Perhaps Garyvdh is on to something.....
Sorry i have to be optimistic.
 
deetee said:
I can't make heads or tails about the pricing and the numbers that have been flying around....too much speculation about how it will affect the amount of bandwidth and cost of that bandwidth etc.

The seacom CEO has been in SA for a number of events, briefing mainly the business community on what to expect. I'm going to this one - http://www.frontfoot.co.za/mailers/scm/pg1.html hopefully
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How rude of me.
Welcome aboard Deetee;)
 
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