Vodacom WiMax

Sounds really good. Hopefully ICASA will give them more spectrum in the near future so speeds can increase.

Neotel could learn a thing or two from Vodacom about getting things done and the manner and timing in which information is delivered to the public.
 
anyone got prices yet? would be interesting to see how they compare to ipop, i mean iburst and telscum.
 
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Wireless/2846.html

Sounds very cool, way to go Vodacom! So if I understand it correctly, Vodacom will use the current iBurst infrastructure to offer their WiMax service? The reason I'm very excited is that I cant get ADSL/Telkom WiMax, but I do fall in the iBurst coverage area which means there is a slight chance of being able to get Vodacom WiMax....:D. At last I can have a decent broadband connection again, not that my HSDPA isn't decent(its just limited and expensive). So hopefully we here in Bloemfontein will be able to get it sooner than later. V3G?
 
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jannievdberg said:
Sounds very cool, way to go Vodacom! So if I understand it correctly, Vodacom will use the current iBurst infrastructure to offer their WiMax service? The reason I'm very excited is that I cant get ADSL/Telkom WiMax, but I do fall in the iBurst coverage area which means there is a slight chance of being able to get Vodacom WiMax....:D. At last I can have a decent broadband connection again, not that my HSDPA isn't decent(its just limited and expensive). So hopefully we here in Bloemfontein will be able to get it sooner than later. V3G?
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Not sure if we use iBurst or Vodacom (or both) high-sites, suspect it will be Vodacom sites to ease the backhaul architecture.
 
Cool, thats even better news. Im so excited about this whole VC WiMax thing, I think its the best thing since "Die Groot Trek". VC is pulling the rabbit out of hat at a very serious pace here.
 
Project X said:
How do i get to be a tester if they put it on trial first?
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Sign me up!! :D

Article said:
...In real world testing conditions – 7.2 km from the base station with line of sight and an external antenna – the performance is equally impressive.

The 1 Mbps profile gave local speed test results of 1004 Kbps and 955 Kbps in the downlink and uplink respectively.

On an unlimited profile these ‘real world’ speeds peaked at 4.1 Mbps, with downlink throughput ranging between 929 Kbps and 2529 Kbps using standard web based speed tests. Using similar testing methods the uplink speeds ranged between 371 Kbps and 1395 Kbps, depending on the server location...
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using a online calculator kpbs - KBs *seeing they like to use "kbps" :confused:*

1004 kbps = 122.56KB/s
955 Kbps = 116.58 kB/s

Heh!? thats pretty good! when you add the ~30 - 58ms latency? and ~download speed of 4288 Kbps and an upload speed of 1635 Kbps??

WiMAX is looking good!! Perhaps this could be the end of my Aerocrap internet! too bad will miss the "uncapped" part :(
Just a few things left out....

Price & Usage? not gonna pay R500 for WiMAX and be left with 1 - 3GB's :mad:
 
i'm most likely going to be moving to a new place that doesn't have telkom phone lines.
i really hope that wimax is provided there as it has the bandwith i need and the latency thats perfect for xbox live. also i'll be able to voip 'cos no more Telkom Closer :(
 
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Ja ne` AutoX people will always have negativity even in competition to bring down prices and offer jannievdberg maybe the opportunity to get internet
 
Not that I will be surprised if they launch this before Noetel actually launches anything...

Neotel is going to have to be a lot cheaper for people to choose CDMA over Wimax, so they better catch a wakeup if they don't want their market share consisting of pensioners looking up prune recipes! :p
 
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I see a catch coming.
Vodacom will most likely be providing the entire service including bandwidth so one won't be able to pick and choose from ISPs for bandwidth like one can using Telkom infrastructure.

Even if Vodacom charge half what they do for mobile data on Wimax it will still be a ripoff.
Mobile data from Vodacom is a R204.8/GiB (20 cents/MiB) if you buy 5GiB or more.
For heavy users that will need to drop to about 6 cents/MiB to compete with ADSL bandwidth prices.

I hope I'm wrong but what I think will happen is that Vodacom will put the equipment, bandwidth and installation costs all into a single basket like they did with 3G/HSDPA.
 
another solution going straight to the business. Whatever happend to residential? Always have to wait twice as long.
 
Maybe I'm misunderstanding this but I don't know what the point is with Vodacom and Wimax if they alrady have really fast and completely rolled out HSDPA ? Sounds like a waist of money covering two technologies at the same time.
 
They two very different technologies that can service two different types of markets. and its also the first step from Vodacom into being a complete one stop telecommunications shop effectively.
 
plugger123 said:
Maybe I'm misunderstanding this but I don't know what the point is with Vodacom and Wimax if they alrady have really fast and completely rolled out HSDPA ? Sounds like a waist of money covering two technologies at the same time.
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Additional spectrum, low latency, quality of service technology to allow them to give certain guaranteed services to corporate clients (Diginet replacement) and cover your bases in case WiMax becomes as big as Intel predicts :D
 
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