Web Africa's new ADSL pricing revealed

i would like to see an answer to Linoman's question above
 
Just reading through the rest of the responses.

Classic WebAfrica self pwnage!!
 
I use about 60 - 70GB per month, via Webafrica. This costs me around R4k - R5k. I'm afraid I simply cannot afford this any longer. I've been holding out for a couple of months as well, paying double for my bandwidth during this time, due to loyalty. I moved my account to a 4MB screamer uncapped account at R2500 today. If it only lasts a few months, and they go under, then so be it. I'll then move it again, but I cannot keep on paying R2500 more per month just out of loyalty. At some point, money has to start talking. I would've loved to make use of the game zone and the free steam server, but with uncapped, it makes no difference to me in any case.

Good luck to WA, but I cannot stick around any longer.
 
Linoman said:
This is a serious question, nothing funny or rude. However I would like to hear an answer from someone at Web Africa. I as a home user with a Telkom and Afrihost accounts. What advantage do I get paying R68 per a gig as opposed for R29. Please note I am not a huge gamer so that would not help me or convince me. I would be interested to know the answer to this.

Hope some one will answer this. Thank You
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The only advantage in this situation is that wamatt and the rest of upper management get to pay off all their debt before this thread breaks them.

Today is one that will be remembered, possibly the day that caused the fall of web africa.

i'm all for it, its time that other companies who deserve their clients get rewarded for trying to stick it out. Web Africa grew too quickly and lost focus. The bigger they are the bigger they fall.

If I worked at web africa (heaven forbid ;) ) this would be the time to update your cv and send it out (on your afrihost account so that management cant run a packet sniffer on your account at home which they give to you as a benefit) to Afrihost and the others.

I did laugh at waroop's diplomatic and well worded response but he seemed to have come late considering my drum roll was many pages back.

For those that havent moved to Afrihost yet, do it now. And while you at it start moving your reseller and end user hosting packages to other ISP's

Web Africa have made their millions and its time for change!!!
 
I find it really disappointing that MyBroadband hasn't posted anything in regard to this. Seems like personal relations gets in the way of 'news'.
 
Linoman said:
This is a serious question, nothing funny or rude. However I would like to hear an answer from someone at Web Africa. I as a home user with a Telkom and Afrihost accounts. What advantage do I get paying R68 per a gig as opposed for R29. Please note I am not a huge gamer so that would not help me or convince me. I would be interested to know the answer to this.

Hope some one will answer this. Thank You
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Would love to see the answer
 
killkom said:
I am a Web africa Subscriber I purchase 30Gig Prepaid unshaped bandwidth from them every month now I can purchase 37 Gigs for the same price
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I'm also a WA subscriber and am signed up for the local IS 30gb for R130.....after this great announcement its now going to cost me......wait for it.........R130! :(

The only other alternative is openweb (30gb local/R130) - there might be others, I'm going to look as now I"m not huge WA fan!
 
@ Linoman,

Let's assume you are on a 3GB package, at 29* per GB = R87 +152 for your line = R239 per month * remember this is a special rate
Our combination offer works out to R249. This is not a special, this is our standard pricing.

That is only a R10 difference in reality.

As for the advantages of being with Web Africa:

DSL console for monitoring usage
Prepaid topups never expire
Having 1 monthly account for line and bandwidth
24/7 dedicated adsl support
Auto top ups
Sms notifications
DSL Secure
FreeZone
Steam Content Server (going live soon)
Reliable network
No contract periods
Free Gaming Service

Hope this answers your question.
People can keep choosing to ignore the line cost, but it is real and we do compete well when all costs are factored in.
 
Krayon said:
Incorrect. All ISP's will need to make the leap to IPC at some point in time if they ever want to be sustainable in the long run.
We have made the investment early on in the game, something all the other smaller ISP's will eventually have to do, soon.
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;/ You certain about that? Do you really think the wholesalers are going to keep their prices static when competition drops the prices? Think about it: let's use IS as an example (they resell to Afrihost). Let's say WebAfrica as a tier-1 ISP decides its viable for them to drop the price below what Afrihost is currently charging, because they're a first-tier ISP and can afford to make that kind of contention-risk move... Surely IS would react by dropping their wholesale price to maintain their business? If such a large portion of customers are with Afrihost, who buys from IS, I really doubt IS/Afrihost chain would allow SAIX/MTNNS/WA or any other IPC customer to put them out of business. In other words, I don't think it's so simple as you make out (that only IPC ISP's will make it in the long run) -- IS depends on Afrihost/OpenWeb because it's those smaller ISP's who do all the work and takes the risks to get the customers... right?
When I look to the future, I honestly can't see every ISP with IPConnect (You know the cost...) - Instead, I see the same sort of system that we have now, because it's a system that works.
If you guys have a vision of being part of some kind of elite group of ISP's that will dominate the market and put all the small guys out of business, then all I can say is I'm glad today's happened. I felt some sympathy for WA after seeing people comment so openly on this thread, but asside for your clearly positive moves like WAGE/free steam (Internet Solutions already has a local content server for those of you who don't know - only benefit of the WA one is that it wont contribute to WA user's caps), I'd say it looks like those comments are necessary to bring you guys back down to earth? Pretty unethical business practice goals revealed... Or am I missing something here?
 
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wamatt said:
RSD This is partially true. And some have said "leave mybb behind they not worth it". But I can't accept that. If you don't participate and are able to to stand up in the fire then what are you? We have always welcomed criticism. Far from out of touch we know exactly what you guys want. It's simply not possible to give it at our size.
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I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned this, but who exactly at WA said that? And what action is being taken against them?

Note that this has nothing to do with the "leave mybb behind" part, but the mere fact that a company who is supposedly customer-centric allows people in their employ who can get away with suggesting that it's ok to discard some clients!
 
Please elaborate on * remember this is a special rate
Afrihost's adsl cost per gb is here to stay (have just confirmed with some one at Afrihost - and in fact their prices may be dropping again based on the excellent response)

R10 is R10, clients are tired of all the "value added services" that you keep punting in all of your attempts to fight fire.
Steam content server going live - wasnt this supposed to be live already?
Auto top ups - wooopy ****
24/7 dedicated adsl support -woopy ****
Reliable network - who are you kidding?

Come on, wake up and quit sniffing your royal web africa glue and address the questions on here already
 
Wow I'm disappointed, really thought it would be amazing, at least the local....... but nothing substantial....
 
If I hear about this afrihost "special" from Web Africa again I'm going to go on a shooting rampage at their offices.

Did these guys BUY their marketing degrees?
 
Krayon said:
Hope this answers your question.
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Hardly. I was also waiting for a response in this regard but your response confirms that there is nothing to be gained from using WA unless you have a combined package. You keep harping on about how easy it is to swop your line to WA, but for crying in a bucket, if you don't want to there appears to be nothing to be gained (apart from gaining a lighter wallet). You merely used that post as a soap-box marketing opportunity. What Linoman asked was what is the advantage of using WA bandwidth. If you advertise bandwidth only, then at least stop treating us like infants and answer questions proposed about bandwidth only pricing, as opposed to deflecting all questions to combined packages discussions. Telling us that we cannot ignore it is all good and well, but I'm telling you I'm not swopping it to WA merely for the sake of getting bandwidth that's still even more expensive than Afrihost. So where's the benefit for me, as a WA bandwidth user? And if you feel the urge to mention line-cost again, don't bother replying...
 
You know considering the mybb users are such a niche group in webafricas eyes you think they would have taken a page out of internet solution's book and thrown us a 30 gig local account for slightly less than R130. It's odd the other tier-1 provider has been able to do this for a few years already.
 
isp-insider said:
Please elaborate on * remember this is a special rate
Afrihost's adsl cost per gb is here to stay (have just confirmed with some one at Afrihost - and in fact their prices may be dropping again based on the excellent response)

R10 is R10, clients are tired of all the "value added services" that you keep punting in all of your attempts to fight fire.
Steam content server going live - wasnt this supposed to be live already?
Auto top ups - wooopy ****
24/7 dedicated adsl support -woopy ****
Reliable network - who are you kidding?

Come on, wake up and quit sniffing your royal web africa glue and address the questions on here already
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I based it on the following:
http://www.afrihost.com/images/ADSL-29-per-GB.jpg

Which other questions would you like me to answer isp-insider?
 
FFS I'm not sifting through 35 pages to see WAs response, isn't there an easier way to do it?
 
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