Uncapped ADSL pricing comparison

Seems a whole lot of things are happening all at once, in March 2010.

My guess is that we will reach a price of around R499, for a service similar to the Axxess uncapped express offering.
 
Lightscribe said:
Seems a whole lot of things are happening all at once, in March 2010.

My guess is that we will reach a price of around R499, for a service similar to the Axxess uncapped express offering.
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That would be good, but what about a real uncapped service.
Do you foresee that in the near future?
 
MWeb includes a clause in their Terms and Conditions which indicates they have the right to suspend an Uncapped Starter user’s account if they continue to exceed the 10 day rolling threshold, which brings into question the “uncapped” claim.
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surely someone should be laying a complaint somewhere then?
 
Mephisto_Helix said:
surely someone should be laying a complaint somewhere then?
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We keep having this discussion. Real Uncapped vs Fake Ass Uncapped. I really think it will come right once some company offers somewhat affordable uncapped. Only then can the gears or war (price war) start turning.
 
Lightscribe said:
You can have 1Mbps, 1:1 contention, uncapped, right now, at around R8000 per month... That price may come down by around 50% by March.
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can get that for less from easyweb right now and wireless to boot.
 
You can get 34 gig for R29 a gig at Afrihost = R1000 - with all the rolling threshold talk and confusion about whether it is ethical to use an uncapped account for downloading more than 40 gig a month, I think I won't be paying the ISPs who offer these false packages a visit any time soon. They have done their own reputaion in IMO.
 
Quick question, a buddy has uncapped express from Axxess on a 4mb ADSL syncing at 4096.
He gets 450k/sec on the service at night and weekends.
I see that this is only a 512k service.
So if he went to the 4mb service from Openweb what would his DL speeds be then?
I am :confused:
 
The article writer should have made the Axxess after hours benefit stand out a lot more. It's almost like a footnote, yet it's the reason those accounts trounce a lot of others.
 
Sure it's been pointed out before, but it's not uncapped if you ever hit a "threshold", as far as I'm concerned a real uncapped service is one that allows you full speed access ALWAYS. Rolling thresholds, throttling during the day, and throttling over thresholds are just clever ways to limit your total usage over the month.

In some why I can understand the throttling during work hours, as you cant have people hogging the line while others are trying to work with that line.
 
marine1 said:
Quick question, a buddy has uncapped express from Axxess on a 4mb ADSL syncing at 4096.
He gets 450k/sec on the service at night and weekends.
I see that this is only a 512k service.
So if he went to the 4mb service from Openweb what would his DL speeds be then?
I am :confused:
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4096kb
450KB

Read me
 
I also have the Axxess uncapped express+.
After hours (they say 8pm-8am) it runs at full speed.
Sometimes it is full speed from 6:30pm, especially on Fridays.

The rolling threshold does not affect me since I don't use the internet all that much during the 8am-8pm window. Also, you still get 20Kb/s during this time, so it is not THAT slow (not 4MB) for general browsing.

If these types of accounts can come down to the R499, I would be very happy as my current ADSL connection runs at R1700 per month for the 4MB line and uncapped account.
 
marine1 - It's just a perk ...... Openweb would get exactly the same speeds.
 
I use an IS uncapped account, never had any problems with any threshold. Not sure if its only open to companies though.... I don't really use it much though, we've got emails and radio and some p2p going on, monthly usage is only about 15-20gigs (mostly email for 15 users)... but it works fine enough... think it costs about R2000 for a 1mbit account.
 
I think the word 'uncapped' needs to be redefined.

I see it as unthrottled, 24x7, no rolling threshold, no max GB!!

Apparently none of the ISP's see it as this :(
 
rpm said:
Uncapped ADSL price comparison

We take a look at some of the high end ADSL services aimed at heavy users
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The only reason it's high end is because of the high price. These are low or below low end services overseas.

I think stuff should be called out for what it is.
For example, if a Toyota costs R100000 overseas and R1000000 in SA does that give us the right to call it a supercar here :)
 
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