The busiest iBurst base stations revealed

“Customers are clearly impressed with the ISP’s great coverage and competitive pricing as well as its delivery of high-speed mobile broadband Internet. It also helps that the modem can be delivered in less than 48 hours and set up in less than 30 minutes, so there's no need to wait for fixed line installations,” iBurst said.
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No iBurst - you're just conning people into buying these ridiculous packages. Just because it sounds cheap, it doesn't make it so.
 
Although 40MB is a pathetic cap, where iBurst is onto a winner, is offering the "Play special" on 24 month contract with modems included at R69pm and R89pm respectively.

Add 1000MB to the Play Special packages (R249pm) and you have all inclusive internet at R299pm (no modem), R319pm (laptop modem) or R339pm (desktop modem) as an always on, all inclusive alternative to dial-up, with bandwidth carry-over. Light internet users may not have to top up every month, bringing the cost down even fuirther.

Of course, you have to pay R99 for installation, but it is a fairly compelling product compared to Telkom's R279pm doBroadband 1, which is (theoretically) a third of the download speed, has no data carryover, and requires a fixed telephone line that will cost at least an extra R100pm.

And the fact that you can have it within 24 hours is a big plus in the minds of consumers.
 
The quality of service from the Centurion tower (now acknowledged to be one of the 5 busiest) has consistently degraded over the past year - now we know why. Why no additional base station here as well.
Wake up Iburst!
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
Gatecrasher, why would anyone want to pay R89pm for a 40MB cap from Iburst, when they can get 150MB for R99pm from Sentech if they buy a modem for R439 once off?

Iburst has repeatedly shown that the last thing they care about is providing a good service at minimal costs to its consumers.
 
Wyzak said:
Gatecrasher, why would anyone want to pay R89pm for a 40MB cap from Iburst, when they can get 150MB for R99pm from Sentech if they buy a modem for R439 once off?

Iburst has repeatedly shown that the last thing they care about is providing a good service at minimal costs to its consumers.
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I'm not making a recommendation, far from it, in fact if I were to make a recommendation it would be to avoid contracts like the plague.

Rather I am just looking at it from a marketing perspective, to explain why iBurst is growing its user base so rapidly.

As for Sentech, apart from a general lack of coverage, the only way to go over your cap is at R1 per MB. And that's just sad.

25c per MB is far more palatable.
 
iburst ain't so good as they claim to be. :sick:
 
the problem is of the 40000 people iburst has signed up only what 1% of it is unhappy with it... so they do tend to ignore that 1% as it's insignificant to them :(
 
MactheKnife said:
The quality of service from the Centurion tower (now acknowledged to be one of the 5 busiest) has consistently degraded over the past year - now we know why. Why no additional base station here as well.
Wake up Iburst!
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
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Amen - and the reason I left.

Thinking about the 40MB package logically and clearly, it should not be allowed.
This is obviously targeted at the person getting his mail, doing a bit of online banking etc. However, what about security update from Microsoft, they are massive? :sick: What about AV, spyware and/or firewall software update. Once you add that, you are in a position where 40MB may be way to little some months.

If you cut corners and not do software updates, you may as well cut your own throat or just send a few hundred rand off to Igor Vladimir Anonymous in Romania Incorporated. Still, that does not preclude Mr Chin in China from using your PC in a botnet.

40MB - Anybody want to but a car with no brakes. Cheapest in town, really!
 
Sollie said:
Thinking about the 40MB package logically and clearly, it should not be allowed.
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Yes, but do consider that Telkom sells 0MB (that's right, zero Megabytes) for R245 (384k), R362 (512k) and R516 (4MB/s) respectively.

If Telkom are allowed to sell nothing for something, you can hardly disallow iBurst's Play special.
 
Gatecrasher said:
Yes, but do consider that Telkom sells 0MB (that's right, zero Megabytes) for R245 (384k), R362 (512k) and R516 (4MB/s) respectively.

If Telkom are allowed to sell nothing for something, you can hardly disallow iBurst's Play special.
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lol... 384 kilobits (not bytes) = 48 kilobytes = 0.046875 megabytes (and it's R245 for the line-speed, measured in bits)

512 Kb = 64 KB = 0.0625 MB

4096 Kb = 512 KB = 0.5 MB

and again... that's paying for the line and the download speed. Not the data usage.

And therein lies the problem - we shouldn't have to pay for a cap. That's not "true internet" and if we should be paying for a cap, it should be something acceptable, around at least 20GB a month, and then a speed reduction of about half the line speed to reduce "bandwidth abuse" in high-usage clients AKA congestion for everyone else.
 
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