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sand_man said:
Yeah, the promo element puts me right off. What will the price of the gigabit package be post March 2020? R6k? R2k? Yet to be determined? @websquadza
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We don't know yet. As mentioned previously, this product was launched as a 12 month trial in conjunction with Vumatel. Vumatel came to the party in terms of line rental and ISPs came to the party in terms of a service.

The goal was to make $100 for 1 Gbps a reality - and it's been achieved. In fact, I think it's been blown out of the water judging by the number of uncapped packages available. Now it's up to Vumatel and the ISPs involved to consider the commercials and see if it makes sense to keep this product going.
 
websquadza said:
We don't know yet. As mentioned previously, this product was launched as a 12 month trial in conjunction with Vumatel. Vumatel came to the party in terms of line rental and ISPs came to the party in terms of a service.

The goal was to make $100 for 1 Gbps a reality - and it's been achieved. In fact, I think it's been blown out of the water judging by the number of uncapped packages available. Now it's up to Vumatel and the ISPs involved to consider the commercials and see if it makes sense to keep this product going.
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They should start lowering the entry price first.
 
wingnut771 said:
R399
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I don't think it's feasible to get that low, not when fibre networks have massive debt to pay and huge staff counts to deliver quick repairs and semi-decent service. Also delivering a decent service as an ISP has a real cost.

Internet is a grudge purchase, like any utility. But take in to account that your electricity bill has almost doubled in the past 5 years while you're now getting 10x + more internet speed for less than the price of a premium 4 Mbps ADSL line at current prices.

Prices are not really that low anywhere in the world (unless they're state subsidised). Private industry managed to pull off what a state-owned monopoly failed to do for many, many years. But this means consumers pay the full price of the service. Hopefully we see further adjustments on the middle packages and that they continue to beat inflation - that's progress.
 
Keen to see how having a static IP impacts the post-loadshedding issues where the DHCP servers get overwhelmed by the incidental-DDoS of everyone connecting at the same time. Will report back when it happens.
 
websquadza said:
I don't think it's feasible to get that low, not when fibre networks have massive debt to pay and huge staff counts to deliver quick repairs and semi-decent service. Also delivering a decent service as an ISP has a real cost.

Internet is a grudge purchase, like any utility. But take in to account that your electricity bill has almost doubled in the past 5 years while you're now getting 10x + more internet speed for less than the price of a premium 4 Mbps ADSL line at current prices.

Prices are not really that low anywhere in the world (unless they're state subsidised). Private industry managed to pull off what a state-owned monopoly failed to do for many, many years. But this means consumers pay the full price of the service. Hopefully we see further adjustments on the middle packages and that they continue to beat inflation - that's progress.
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Wishful thinking I guess just throwing it out there :), also thinking along the lines of fibre having to compete with LTE, and then 5G.
 
Waylander said:
Keen to see how having a static IP impacts the post-loadshedding issues where the DHCP servers get overwhelmed by the incidental-DDoS of everyone connecting at the same time. Will report back when it happens.
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Airial or trenched.
Im airial and static and no issues after laodshedding
 
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