Vox Telecom uncapped ADSL: Undercuts MWEB!

With a price war looming on the 4mb uncapped + line rental, any chance we could see an ISP provide this offering at sweet spot price of r799
 
moklet said:
I opened a bottle of my good wine to celebrate (Sorry champs give me headaches)
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Hahaha! Nice.

This is all good and well, but I first want to see how they are going to handle all the traffic in about a month or two when everyone is suddenly downloading the entire freaking internet?
 
DenSweep said:
Hahaha! Nice.

This is all good and well, but I first want to see how they are going to handle all the traffic in about a month or two when everyone is suddenly downloading the entire freaking internet?
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It's OK... I already have it backed up. Wanna copy?
 
Last 6 months or so
FNB Connect (unshaped prepaid R69/gb)
Afrihost R29/gb (sometimes 14.50)
Screamer were a bit too disorganised
G-Connect as far as I know still have a stupid login page
Digichilli never really worked but was about the first to advertise uncapped at a reasonable price
There was that "ISP" that wasn't getting billed and tried to sell some stuff really cheaply which obviously didn't work out
WA took R1 off their R70/gb prepaid :p
Um, iBurst did a telkom and dropped some prices and raised others to advertise a decrease but really most people probably have to pay more
MWEB!
Vox
???
 
Damn... so even if I do get that 16GB/4MB Line special from WebAfrica... I dont want it anymore... Going to put Mweb to the test with the free Uncapped Account next month woohoo!
 
rorz0r said:
Last 6 months or so
FNB Connect (unshaped prepaid R69/gb)
Afrihost R29/gb (sometimes 14.50)
Screamer were a bit too disorganised
G-Connect as far as I know still have a stupid login page
Digichilli never really worked but was about the first to advertise uncapped at a reasonable price
There was that "ISP" that wasn't getting billed and tried to sell some stuff really cheaply which obviously didn't work out
WA took R1 off their R70/gb prepaid :p
Um, iBurst did a telkom and dropped some prices and raised others to advertise a decrease but really most people probably have to pay more
MWEB!
Vox
???
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You can add OpenWeb to that list too :D They're going to resell the Mweb accounts, so I'd rather give OW the moola than Mweb :)
 
at this rate, i demand week to week contracts.
i thought things were crazy before.
this is just stupid.
 
rorz0r said:
Last 6 months or so
FNB Connect (unshaped prepaid R69/gb)
Afrihost R29/gb (sometimes 14.50)
Screamer were a bit too disorganised
G-Connect as far as I know still have a stupid login page
Digichilli never really worked but was about the first to advertise uncapped at a reasonable price
There was that "ISP" that wasn't getting billed and tried to sell some stuff really cheaply which obviously didn't work out
WA took R1 off their R70/gb prepaid :p
Um, iBurst did a telkom and dropped some prices and raised others to advertise a decrease but really most people probably have to pay more
MWEB!
Vox
???
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Cake
Eat It

:)
 
Come on Internet Solutions.........

Tweak those Uncapped Express accounts for us.
 
My guess is that Telkom's new bundle prices will be announced along with their speed upgrades in the next ten weeks. But don't expect anything as earth shattering as this (although I hope I am wrong).
 
Well this is a PR piece. And of course the old drum every likes to beat:

That means ISPs still pay heavily for the right to use a facility that was funded by taxpayers in the first place.
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This argument is total nonsense. Telkom was original funded by tax payers, but during privatization the government actually SOLD the asset and received money for it. This money essentially went back to the tax payer. So you can maybe argue that the government has not sold Telkom for enough, but legally Telkom has ZERO obligation NOW. The landlines are assets of the entity known as Telkom... which frankly has nothing to do with the taxpayers. Example: I would love for SAA to be privatized ... but then to go on ten years after the fact that the prices of seats are too high because the tax payer original sponsored it is absolute nonsense. Believe me SA would probably have been in a worse telecoms situation that it is now if Telkom had NOT been privatized.
 
Garyvdh said:
My guess is that Telkom's new bundle prices will be announced along with their speed upgrades in the next ten weeks. But don't expect anything as earth shattering as this (although I hope I am wrong).
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Hope you wrong too! :)
 
Well this is AWESOME news. The fact that more than one ISP is doing the uncapped thing at good prices (price war) means that it WILL be sustainable whether WA likes it or not :) The more ISP's that join in this battle, the greater the chance that true uncapped is here to stay! :D
 
Garyvdh said:
My guess is that Telkom's new bundle prices will be announced along with their speed upgrades in the next ten weeks. But don't expect anything as earth shattering as this (although I hope I am wrong).
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kawling ?Moggie? - would appreciate your comment! :-))
 
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