Webafrica Response To Mweb uncapped

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506easyEASY

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"I don't see how this is going to sustainable. Seems like Verizon (now MTN Business) Uncapped offering all over again back in 2005. Amazing offering which quickly became unmanageable. After 3 months the service degraded to a point which made it unusable and we had to refund our customers. After 6 months Verizon discontinued the service.

Cheap uncapped unfortunately makes managing the quality on the network impossible, unless they're prepared to be pumping cash into it monthly to keep the capacity excessively high - which makes it unprofitable and unsustainable in the long run. International broadband markets have proven this.
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Rupert Bryant
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from http://forums.webafrica.co.za/showthread.php?t=3422

Sounds like sour grapes to me
 
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506easyEASY said:
Cheap uncapped unfortunately makes managing the quality on the network impossible, unless they're prepared to be pumping cash into it monthly to keep the capacity excessively high - which makes it unprofitable and unsustainable in the long run. International broadband markets have proven this.
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Don't the same international markets provide cheap uncapped internet or are all those 30 euro/month 24Mbps uncapped deals I saw in Europe fake?
 
orin76 said:
Don't the same international markets provide cheap uncapped internet or are all those 30 euro/month 24Mbps uncapped deals I saw in Europe fake?
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Yeah that's what I was thinking, these prices are good for us because we were raped hard but compared to international options it's still a joke... mostly due to telkom with it's expensive rental and slow ADSL.
 
I wouldn't like to have been in any of the other ISPs offices this morning when this bomb dropped, can you imagine the anarchy.
 
orin76 said:
Don't the same international markets provide cheap uncapped internet or are all those 30 euro/month 24Mbps uncapped deals I saw in Europe fake?
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A friend of mine in the Netherlands has the option to get 20Mbps uncapped for around 25euros per month. This has been going on for how long now.
 
froot said:
A friend of mine in the Netherlands has the option to get 20Mbps uncapped for around 25euros per month. This has been going on for how long now.
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Same, got friend who has a 20mb uncapped line for 20 pounds in London.

We still far behind but MWEB has just made a great move for us
 
Screw webafrica with their high prices then. Just a word of warning to webafrica. We ALL know that Mweb has a MASSIVE marketing budget. Look at all the TV ads. Now if they start advertising the cheapest unlimited internet in South Africa. There will be problems for Webafrica and companies a like.
 
Fudzy said:
I wouldn't like to have been in any of the other ISPs offices this morning when this bomb dropped, can you imagine the anarchy.
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Today at WebAfrica offices:
CEO: Good mourning guys
Staff: (all silent)
CEO: Whats wrong
Staff: You havent been to MWEB's site.. have you?
CEO: Who, those over priced shmohogs?
Staff: No, the ones who offer R500 4MB uncapped
CEO: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU*K
 
Schwartz said:
Today at WebAfrica offices:
CEO: Good mourning guys
Staff: (all silent)
CEO: Whats wrong
Staff: You havent been to MWEB's site.. have you?
CEO: Who, those over priced shmohogs?
Staff: No, the ones who offer R500 4MB uncapped
CEO: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU*K
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Post of the day dude.. post of the day :D
 
I obviously think that WA are telling the truth, but while everyone was pumping specials, MWEB was dead quiet.
They wouldn't do this unless they either "knew" something that others didn't know or have really done something awesome.... suffice to say, I'm going to sit back and watch for a month or so...
 
506easyEASY said:
Sounds like sour grapes to me
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Not at all. Just providing an objective opinion.

Did you see my post further along qualifying my statement?
Comcast, worlds largest ISP had to pull their uncapped after MUCH backlash and deliberation:
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2...-october-1.ars

Australia who we're a solid few years behind is still struggling delivering on this:
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2010/03...om-tpg-exetel/
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If Mweb pulls it off I will be well prepared to eat humble pie, we will of course be keeping a close eye on them. Regardless one has to commend Mweb for their bold move! We are loving this added heat and benefit to the industry - nothing strengthens one like adversity.
 
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waroop; So you guys have NO surprises coming ?

Because alot of my friends are going to cancel and goto MWEB - I'd like to tell them to wait and stay with WA, simply because WA is just... (IMO) BETTER.
 
waroop said:
...nothing strengthens like adversity.
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Sure, if you learn from it and respond to it, but rolling over and playing dead won't make you strong.

Hey, maybe you can resell MWeb uncapped accounts... I'd buy one.
 
gdiza said:
waroop; So you guys have NO surprises coming ?

Because alot of my friends are going to cancel and goto MWEB - I'd like to tell them to wait and stay with WA, simply because WA is just... (IMO) BETTER.
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Of course! We have some very exciting stuff planned in the coming months that we've already started working on. Announcements will follow soon, thats all I can say for now :)

PS. Thanks for the kudos.
 
waroop said:
Of course! We have some very exciting stuff planned in the coming months that we've already started working on. Announcements will follow soon, thats all I can say for now :)
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Thing is WA keeps saying that... they've been saying that for almost a year now :cry:
 
Lol, Mweb are owned by Telkom so I doubt bandwidth shortages will be an issue.
My guess is that this is Telkom's first salvo in what should be an interesting bandwidth war.
They will watch the numbers and see how many new subscribers Mweb gets without having to drop any of their mainstream Telkom and Do clients.
Total win, win for them.
Sadly i think this marks the end of the line for the smaller players like Axxess. Hell they are charging resellers R28.50 per gig while Mweb are uncapping lol.
Vernon Koekmoer just got a snotklap. :wtf:
 
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