Vodacom planning cheaper consumer ADSL service

Vodacom’s 3GB ADSL data bundles cost R169.00 (once off), well above Telkom’s R99 for 5GB and even Telkom’s R149 for 10GB.

With these high prices Vodacom has unsurprisingly not gained much market share, and is all but irrelevant in the local ADSL market.
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Much? I'm surprised that they have any market share with those prices.
 
Seriously VC, welcome to the real world. You can't expect the same high margins beyond the mobile voice oligopoly, from a market in which there is real competition.

Further info in the price comparison part of the article : Afrihost add-on is R39pm for 2gigs. Even if they offered a product with half the contention, it would still be cheaper!
 
You launched this in August 2010. At the time we told you that prices are too high, yet you wait years until 2012 before you react? Next you're going to tell us it was for our own good, something ridiculous like to prevent your network from being clogged up by overuse due to too low prices.

Vodacom, the company that only has our wellbeing at heart. No really. /sarcasm

Here's an idea now that you officially recognise that you've been screwing us ..
How about giving some of that money back?
 
evilstebunny said:
How about giving some of that money back?
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A fool and their gold...

Anybody who signed up at those prices deserved whatever came their way IMO. Don't think the onus should be on VC to refund people due to their gullibility.
 
It took Vodacom 18 months to figure this out... the product was forgotten about just after the launch! I thought they'd canned it!

Epic Fail!

And BTW, the vast majority of ADSL users have absolutely no idea what contention is!
 
evilstebunny said:
You launched this in August 2010. At the time we told you that prices are too high, yet you wait years until 2012 before you react? Next you're going to tell us it was for our own good, something ridiculous like to prevent your network from being clogged up by overuse due to too low prices.

Vodacom, the company that only has our wellbeing at heart. No really. /sarcasm

Here's an idea now that you officially recognise that you've been screwing us ..
How about giving some of that money back?
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Well they haven't really done anything as yet, this was just an article on them planning to do something about it, so we could wait another 2 years still :)
 
Drum roll: Enter our programmers to create some code to throttle you poor plebs to death so that we can make it more affordable. So we are only allowed to use our internet packages as we want, when we want, if we are willing to pay premium rip-off amounts for it. If we want "affordable" ADSL, we are not allowed to use it for anything other than e-mail and surfing (no streaming mind you). Same as Telkom's ADSL policy only difference, they not saying it, they just forcing it. We'll see I guess.
 
They should have been aggressive when they launched their service!
 
What is the point in uncontended, unshaped super redundant ADSL??? You are still at the mercy of Telkom with no SLA for the local and national loop, so it really is a bit pointless. Telkom sold VC some serious crap when VC were developing that product. FAIL. Double FAIL since on the speedtests VC seems to always perform fairly poorly (so much for all that "quality").

Oh, on redundancy, it isn't that expensive if you do it right - I suspect VC were tied in to long term international bandwidth contracts so couldn't leverage the new, lower pricing since Seacom came in. Take it they have now renegotiated with SAT3 using Seacom, WACS and EASY as leverage. That and the VC bureaucratic machine doesn't exactly turn around quickly and probably didn't see ADSL competition happening, then thought it was a fad and eventually realised they have to do something to stay in the game.
 
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