Telkom involvement in MyWireless?

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<br />I dont know what everyone is getting so excited about. The SNO wont do much for people that want cheaper broadband. I mean look what MTN did to vodacoms pricing - they still make a stack of money. It is strange for us broadband people to think that the SNO will actually provide voice services [:D]
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Voice is data these days, wake up and smell the binary ;)

Read http://www.transtel.co.za and stop assuming things.

MTN actualy did alot to Vodacom's pricing and their services. Simple one - us vodacom people only used to be able to send 'please-call-me' sms's to other vodacom subscribers. Since CellC and MTN unlocked theirs vodacom followed a little later. Same with per second billing etc. Most of Vodacom's decent services have been copied from other SP's

- Colin Alston
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Fine. BUT, since MTN came on the scene, have call prices (say per minute) dropped by 50%. Absolutely not. So thus, when we get SNO we may get bigger mailboxes, more email addresses, more roaming and all and all.. but it wont be cheaper. Lower pricing is what everyone is after and what everyone associates with SNO. Broadband wont be affordable just because the SNO arrives on the scene..
 
Not at all, but if you look at the real costs of Internet, Broadband in this country is cheap, is you work and thi figure, as an ISP you buy 1:1 international bandwidth at about R 6000 per 64K and about R 1000 per 64K local, your package is cheap.

Keep Surfing
 
No it isn't cheap, ISPs also pay ridiculously inflated prices for bandwidth as a result of Telkom's monopoly on terrestrial bandwidth.
The cost of international bandwidth in SA compared to most other countries is absolutely shocking on both the ISP and consumer level.
 
Internet in SA is cheap! Come-on man, where the hell have you been?

I worked in Canada for 2 years and I had a cable connection plus modem that ran at 1.5 Mbps day and night. That cost me C$30 (about R160) per month.

You can get a T1 (5.4 Mbps) connection there for a few hundred dollars a month. For the same speed here you would have to pay Telkom what, R30,000 to R40,000 per month?

If you take into consideration the QOS here (a concept not well understood here in SA) our internet is of the most expensive in the world. The only places that give us a run for our money on this score is like Saudi Arabia, where they also have a government controlled monopoly telco.

Clive
 
If I remember correctly, T1 is 1.5mbps.....

And yes, bandwidth is cheap in Canada/US/UK because of very different reasons from SA. The majority of the Internet sites sit in those continents. How often have to downloaded the latest game demo/software update from a local site?

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Sorry My mistake

DS0 64Kbps 1/24 of T-1 1 Channel
DS1 1.544Mbps 1 T-1 24 Channels
DS1C 3.152 Mbps 2 T-1 48 Channels
DS2 6.312 Mbps 4 T-1 96 Channels
DS3 44.736 Mbps 28 T-1 672 Channels
DS3C 89.472 Mbps 56 T-1 1344 Channels
DS4 274.176 Mbps 168 T-1 4032 Channels

South Korea also have more or less the same price as that in the USA, and they are just as far from the USA as we are.
 
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