Vox Telecom uncapped ADSL: Undercuts MWEB!

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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Even though i'm not yet jumping on these new uncapped offerings, i canceled my Telkom ISP account today for good measure. Telkom can shove their stupid overpriced local bandwidth R79 for 1GB package.
 
If all the major ISP's in South Africa launch similar uncapped offerings, then the "it's unsustainable" argument will be down the drain and we will only have to get ICASA to move their a$$es with LLU
 
Smooth Criminal said:
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 :)
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Dunno dude... OpenWeb still seem a bit dodgy to me. With "Keoma Wright, Founder" it seems like a one man band. The oke does seem to have some pull with IS though...
 
demon angel said:
If they get rid of 384kbp/s then i will not ask God for any more favours.
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They should at least go to something like 1/4/8mbps or something... Fark even 3G is *theoretically* on 14.4 or something with 20something looming. And mobile operators seem to upgrade overnight while telkom takes 5 years. So maybe they must upgrade now to 1/8/12 or something
 
this is great news. I'm gonna hold ship for a few weeks. see how things pan out.

Other ISP have no other option but to drop prices.
 
NICE. How many other ISP's can afford to do this / have the infrastructure to do this?
IS, of course, though they not an ISP per se.
Neotel (meh)
iburst? (double meh)
Telkom (I have no words)
Webafrica (I suspect they've spent too much on their new infrastructure and can't afford to, that's prob why they've been cagey. Remember mweb, Vox et al have much more "spare cash")

Anybody else?
So, competition good, but none of the small players can compete with this, so dunno if we'll get any more announcements next week after all.

What do u guys think? Am I missing anythign?
 
Lydon said:
Makes me wonder how they've been coining it until now...:wtf:
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Yip and how much collusion there was between them to keep those prices there. Next competition commission target is ISP's in SA :) :)
 
The prices sound much better to me, including the ADSL line rental for 4M at R400/pm ? Curious if it slows down at certain times though like the IS Express accounts during the day.
 
moklet said:
Well history will show they became extinct before the dino's egg even hatched
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How do you know their response is not going to be good?

I knew MWeb were coming out with a game breaking ADSL offering.
I didn't know it would be this good.

If I knew (and I am not in the ISP industry) then WA knew.

So maybe we can expect a decent response.It doesn't need to be cheaper

I really hope they do respond well. Afrihost too
I admire both companies for different reasons.
 
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I wonder where SAOL stands with their Inclusive Uncapped offerings... I'm going to give it till the end of the month... If SAOL doesn't drop their prices, and if the new uncapped offerings out there looks more reasonable, i'll have to switch!...
 
ooooooh its on!! I think this is going to thin the heard and kill off a few isps.
 
It's raining GBs

Hi - Hi! We're your lonely modems - Ah-huh -
And have we got news for you - You better listen!
Get ready, all you lonely modems
and leave those kbs at home. - Alright! -

Humidity is rising - Barometer's getting low
According to all sources, the interwebs the place to go
Cause tonight for the first time
Just about half-past five
For the first time in history
It's gonna start raining GBs !!! :)
 
mmm... you got it hard for the Weather Girls? :D


Dan C said:
Hi - Hi! We're your lonely modems - Ah-huh -
And have we got news for you - You better listen!
Get ready, all you lonely modems
and leave those kbs at home. - Alright! -

Humidity is rising - Barometer's getting low
According to all sources, the interwebs the place to go
Cause tonight for the first time
Just about half-past five
For the first time in history
It's gonna start raining GBs !!! :)
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