Speed merchants

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Speed merchants

CORPORATE SOUTH AFRICA is set to be the biggest beneficiary of the current rapid rollout of new telecommunications infrastructure.

 

[LCBXX]

He gives the example of a company with a manufacturing site connected via a 256Kbps link to its head office that, when told Neotel didn't offer anything smaller than 2Mbps, insisted that 256Kbps was all they needed - even though the cost was the same.

As rediculous as it sounds, that's Neotel's problem at the moment. The company here only want 256Kbps but for less than they are charged now. They don't care about the speed difference, they just want to pay less.

I want 2GB of data with a bandwidth equal or better than 384Kbps, for less than I pay now for Do2. I don't have a Telkom phone instrument so I don't care about "free minutes" etc.

Can Neotel offer me that? No. That's the point.

 

[ShaunSA]

Gdiza wants Neotel

 

[savagedavid]

Don't bother with Neotel yet - phoned them looking to spend possibly 80K+ per month for a client on bandwidth. Got shunted from pillar to post. Eventually got phoned back to say if I want to be a Neotel reseller I have to send them a business plan...

So tried again and after about 35 minutes of talking to a sales agent trying multiple office addresses for coverage possibilities was told "actually we cant provide service in Cape Town yet"

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

 

[MadMailMan]

Neotel didn't offer anything smaller than 2Mbps, insisted that 256Kbps was all they needed - even though the cost was the same.

Did this Stefano guy work for Telkom? I currently have a 128k line between my office in Cape Town and Jhb which costs R3500 a month. Neotel's quote to replace it was R45000 a month. Is he saying for me to upgrade from 128k to 256k will cost an extra R41500 a month or does he have no clue? My money is on the latter. This is just marketing cr@p.

 

[fusion01]

'He gives the example of a company with a manufacturing site connected via a 256Kbps link to its head office that, when told Neotel didn't offer anything smaller than 2Mbps, insisted that 256Kbps was all they needed - even though the cost was the same.'

The most absurd thing I've ever heard. Even if it's one member of staff, YOU CAN NEVER HAVE ENOUGH. And didn't someone tell this poor sod that 256 kbps is basically dial-up anyway due to congestion / little available bandwidth / port shaping during office hours. Hell, a 4mb p/s line is like a 256 k line during the day (I know - single individual getting 20-30k max through HTTP).