Vumatel's plan for uncapped 100Mbps fibre for R89

Good to see a big company taking the initiative to bridge the digital divide created by the Government. Telkom could not roll out ADSL to all Suburban areas in the last 10 years let alone Fibre. We will see just exactly how they will do it, I hope they succeed.
 
Enjoy your 1:450 contended connection.

To be economically viable it may be even higher, but I just took the price of bandwidth in Teraco + L2 service to a endpoint. Building an access network to the client is usually even more expensive....
 
Only viable if its like 5GB a day or less fair usage uncapped service. And thats being generous.

In any case R89 100Mbit true uncapped, not in africa, not anywhere else in the world either.
 
John Tempus said:
Only viable if its like 5GB a day or less fair usage uncapped service. And thats being generous.

In any case R89 100Mbit true uncapped, not in africa, not anywhere else in the world either.
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It's the equivalent of a 100Mbs FTTH product shared between a 20 person household. R89*20 = R1780 effectively, which is not bad at all.
 
John Tempus said:
Only viable if its like 5GB a day or less fair usage uncapped service. And thats being generous.

In any case R89 100Mbit true uncapped, not in africa, not anywhere else in the world either.
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Based on what is it only viable at 5GB or less?
And this 100mb shared among 20 households...
 
Divided by how many users on the AP. I want this to work, but I do think due to over sharing it may not be feasible in its current state.
Why pay R89 when you can share with 4 houses around you?

The other issue is infrastructure and setup, these guys have been hit hard before with theft of slicing equipment and such.
 
Why 100Mb/s per home? 10Mbs would be more than sufficient as it will probably be higher than the SA & global average speed.
 
Waylander said:
https://techcentral.co.za/vumatel-offer-100mbits-home-fibre-townships-r89month/76737/
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Waylander said:
At 100Mbs / 20 = 5Mbs
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Thanks.

Unlike in the suburbs, however, the fibre will be aerial (strung along poles) rather than trenched, and a contention ratio of 20:1 will apply. This means that if 20 consumers maximise use of their lines at the same time, consumers can expect a minimum speed of 5Mbit/s; in practice, however, it will be much higher than that, he said.
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For R89/month, consumers will get a completely uncapped 100Mbit/s down, 10Mbit/s up connection at a maximum 20x contention ratio.
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