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Elasticity is obviously a huge driver. But surely it's already built in? No sane company would not embrace it.Will you not sell more than enough data bundles to easily match/exceed the current usage, right?
You'll probably easily hit the same profits and those consumers leaving for e.g. Telkom because they're cheaper would stop leaving.
Indeed it the real reason why investors will invest the massive amounts needed to build and operate these networks.
Can we get that deal from here?
Ok.
I call BS. What service provider is this?
Bloody hell. Am asking my French friends if they can get me one. I pay £10 a month for my UK one already, and barely use it unless I am there
Certainly a business opportunity here. Similar to re-shippers bypassing geo-location restrictions.
Poor example. The only reason anyone buys a weekly pass is because it still works out less than the single trip. It is time based and not usage based like data.
And data happens to be the only tracked non time based service that expires. All other services are either time based (not counting actual usage) or usage based. If I go to Makro and buy a six pack they don't charge me more when I only buy another one after 6 months even though they can. They only make 4 or 5 months of profit from me for buying in bulk but they're happy with it because some people will use it up in 3 months and come back so they're willing to take the chance I may stretch it over 6 months and pay less.What Shameel was talking about is pricing, not expiry.
Data bundles expire because it's a service, not a physical product.
Milk, petrol, etc. are all physical products and don't expire. Once you bought it, you take it home and consume it at your leasure.
Access to a data network is a service, just like you pay for access to a gym, DSTV, etc.
I've been saying on this forum for many years, the first person that can turn data into a physical product you can buy and take home for later consumption will win the Nobel prize for Physics.
And I've been saying the same thing for years. There was never a switch to usage based but SA for some reason went with it from the start where the world norm is bandwidth based. It's impossible to calculate a cost when the metrics aren't the same. The most you can do is calculate one on average usage that's higher than the network costs but Vodacom is further screwing the metrics by introducing expiry.
Physics are physics yes, but for some reason we keep hearing that SA is "special" when it comes to things that work in the rest of the world. Couldn't it perhaps be that Rain just had a poor model and still has which is why nobody is interested in it?
Actually it's the other way around. The few MHz of extra spectrum they have is poorly suited to their dense cities and almost useless. Whether you service 1000 customers over 1km or 10km is exactly the same in terms of capacity. To use the low frequency spectrum in a dense large city would be disastrous.
Nice excuse when nobody has tried.
Which is what I and a lot of others have been arguing. But every time the issue pops up they keep arguing about being the only one more suited to fully use it. The truth is afaic none of them should get any of it as that would have the most beneficial effect.
On that subject of physical products why do airtime vouchers expire.What Shameel was talking about is pricing, not expiry.
Data bundles expire because it's a service, not a physical product.
Milk, petrol, etc. are all physical products and don't expire. Once you bought it, you take it home and consume it at your leasure.
Access to a data network is a service, just like you pay for access to a gym, DSTV, etc.
I've been saying on this forum for many years, the first person that can turn data into a physical product you can buy and take home for later consumption will win the Nobel prize for Physics.
This.
Data bundles expire because it's a service, not a physical product.
I've been saying on this forum for many years, the first person that can turn data into a physical product you can buy and take home for later consumption will win the Nobel prize for Physics.
