When will Seacom afect consumers?

[boramk]

ETA was July I think? Well that's not far away... When it lands in July wil it instantly drop prices/raise caps for us?

 

[elL0L]

Seacom already landed, but there are still trials an testing ahead.

 

[Swift-wp]

Seacom already landed, but there are still trials an testing ahead.

Are you referring to the landing station being built or the cable being connected?

 

[elL0L]

The landing station

 

[Gaz{M}]

IMNSHO, all the VANS and operators have already signed agreements for SEACOM bandwidth and will have their capacity switched on in July. They have already done their pricing forecasts, product plans and strategy for the rest of the year. If nothing happens, they are just blatantly price gouging and reaping the profits without passing on savings to their customers. Time to plan some riots and protests just in case.

 

[online14230]

Heads up: Check the Financial mail on Friday for the full page Seacom ad

 

[Yuu]

thanks for that info online, will check it out.

I thought all was set to go ahead in June

 

[LazyLion]

There is no reason why prices should not drop from the very moment that Seacom goes live. As was stated above the IPSs have had plenty of time to conclude their agreements and to structure their pricing. But to be fair we should give them a month to work everything through their systems.

What is more interesting though is that Telkom always claimed ADSL costs were high because of the restrictive bandwidth available through the SAT3 link. I will be very interested to see if Telkom drops their ADSL prices the month after Seacom goes live since they can then no longer use that excuse. By the same argument caps should also increase substantially the following month.

I'm not betting any money on it though.

 

[Vincent_Thorn]

I don't believe something will change. What a reason to reduce price? Just to make YOU happy? Of course not. Taxes also eats any capability to offer cheaper service. And that old-whites habit to get benefit from nothing (just reselling same sh*t for triple price).
And one more thought: "election of ANC" already past. Read: "economic goes faster to be dead". What "Internet" you're talking about? Beware to be full! (and alive) God and guns bless you.

 

[PDonut]

say what?

 

[gregmcc]

I don't believe something will change. What a reason to reduce price? Just to make YOU happy? Of course not. Taxes also eats any capability to offer cheaper service. And that old-whites habit to get benefit from nothing (just reselling same sh*t for triple price).

Of courses prices will drop. They might drop to the level we expect but they will drop.

And one more thought: "election of ANC" already past. Read: "economic goes faster to be dead". What "Internet" you're talking about? Beware to be full! (and alive) God and guns bless you.

Dude - lay off the tik!