WebAfrica's interview with the CEO

Great interview. Clear and sober answers.

Thanks web africa.
 
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Gundam said:
Interesting information here:

http://blog.webafrica.co.za/?p=446

"The reality is that Seacom hasn’t changed all that much but the landscape is coming once true competition arrives via WACS and Eassy."
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Im still a sceptic although I am optimistic. I wouldnt be surprised if when those two cable do land, we end up waiting for another cable to "bring the competition"
 
So - like OPenweb - again it is Telkom with their IPConnect product - that is holding everything up? They dont seem to be in any hurry to provide isp's with this product....
 
Just_Ice said:
Im still a sceptic although I am optimistic. I wouldnt be surprised if when those two cable do land, we end up waiting for another cable to "bring the competition"
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The big problem with seacom is it doesnt really offer much cheaper prices when buying small portions. Things only get cheap when isp's buy huge 20 years chunks which run into millions per month.

With other cables landing in the next 18 months, its only logical for them to hold back a bit to see what deals they can get. If wacs proves to be a lot cheaper, then waiting those 18 month would have been wise. If an isp exhausts its whole budget buying a nice chunk of seacom now, then what is it going to do when wacs lands offering a better deal.

In 18 moths the cables will have landed and the market will have the stability it needs for big investments to occur.

I may be off on all this. Im just guessing. ;)
 
Guess who will be running EASSY and WASC!!! Go on you know the answer......

Telkom!!!
 
Actually the big problem is the lack of local loop unbundling in South Africa and the cost of the ADSL circuit. Until LLU happens ISPs will be unable to supply consumers with non-Telkom ADSL circuit and be unable to bypass Telkom's IPConnect product.

At the moment just the last mile cost of a 4MB ADSL connection is R543 (R130 odd for the compulsory voice line plus R413 for a 4MB ADSL line) and that's before we've even bought any bandwidth!!! So in my opinion the high bandwidth costs are just part of the problem.

We can have all the undersea cables in the world coming into South Africa, but it still doesn't change the fact that we have to fork out R543 before we've even bought a single megabyte of bandwidth capacity. Seacom won't change this and ISPs like WebAfrica don't currently have the power to change this.
 
deweyzeph said:
Actually the big problem is the lack of local loop unbundling in South Africa and the cost of the ADSL circuit. Until LLU happens ISPs will be unable to supply consumers with non-Telkom ADSL circuit and be unable to bypass Telkom's IPConnect product.

At the moment just the last mile cost of a 4MB ADSL connection is R543 (R130 odd for the compulsory voice line plus R413 for a 4MB ADSL line) and that's before we've even bought any bandwidth!!! So in my opinion the high bandwidth costs are just part of the problem.

We can have all the undersea cables in the world coming into South Africa, but it still doesn't change the fact that we have to fork out R543 before we've even bought a single megabyte of bandwidth capacity. Seacom won't change this and ISPs like WebAfrica don't currently have the power to change this.
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+1
 
deweyzeph said:
Actually the big problem is the lack of local loop unbundling in South Africa and the cost of the ADSL circuit. Until LLU happens ISPs will be unable to supply consumers with non-Telkom ADSL circuit and be unable to bypass Telkom's IPConnect product.

At the moment just the last mile cost of a 4MB ADSL connection is R543 (R130 odd for the compulsory voice line plus R413 for a 4MB ADSL line) and that's before we've even bought any bandwidth!!! So in my opinion the high bandwidth costs are just part of the problem.

We can have all the undersea cables in the world coming into South Africa, but it still doesn't change the fact that we have to fork out R543 before we've even bought a single megabyte of bandwidth capacity. Seacom won't change this and ISPs like WebAfrica don't currently have the power to change this.
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Very true actually
 
deweyzeph said:
Actually the big problem is the lack of local loop unbundling in South Africa and the cost of the ADSL circuit. Until LLU happens ISPs will be unable to supply consumers with non-Telkom ADSL circuit and be unable to bypass Telkom's IPConnect product.

At the moment just the last mile cost of a 4MB ADSL connection is R543 (R130 odd for the compulsory voice line plus R413 for a 4MB ADSL line) and that's before we've even bought any bandwidth!!! So in my opinion the high bandwidth costs are just part of the problem.

We can have all the undersea cables in the world coming into South Africa, but it still doesn't change the fact that we have to fork out R543 before we've even bought a single megabyte of bandwidth capacity. Seacom won't change this and ISPs like WebAfrica don't currently have the power to change this.
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So true!
But what would the GAVARMENT do without their income ? :)
 
deweyzeph said:
Actually the big problem is the lack of local loop unbundling in South Africa and the cost of the ADSL circuit. Until LLU happens ISPs will be unable to supply consumers with non-Telkom ADSL circuit and be unable to bypass Telkom's IPConnect product.

At the moment just the last mile cost of a 4MB ADSL connection is R543 (R130 odd for the compulsory voice line plus R413 for a 4MB ADSL line) and that's before we've even bought any bandwidth!!! So in my opinion the high bandwidth costs are just part of the problem.

We can have all the undersea cables in the world coming into South Africa, but it still doesn't change the fact that we have to fork out R543 before we've even bought a single megabyte of bandwidth capacity. Seacom won't change this and ISPs like WebAfrica don't currently have the power to change this.
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