Who's seen the August Telkom Wholesale Reductions?

[bwana]

With recent events - the SNO Neotel and the 4mbit upgrades - the Telkom reduction in wholesale prices might have been overshadowed. Since the ISPs could claim they didnt have time last month to pass on the savings I figure that grace period has now expired.

My question - which ISPs have passed on these savings to their customers and which have decided to pocket it instead?

 

[.geek]

Yeah, interested to find out aswell. Can we safely assume those which don't reply are pocketing the savings themselves?

 

[bwana]

Good point. In fact *both* TELKOM and IS have reduced their wholesale prices. Haven't seen any indication of reduced prices from ISPs though....

Thanks - I didn't realise it was IS too.

You'd expect that at least one ISP would have passed on the savings.

 

[AntiThesis]

You'd hope that the ISP reps that are around the forums would be posting quite a lot... Has anyone heard from them recently?

 

[MrBEEP]

OpenWeb passed on the savings on the 1st of August to its clients, and introduced many new packages in line with the price reductions.

 

[bwana]

OpenWeb passed on the savings on the 1st of August to its clients, and introduced many new packages in line with the price reductions.

Awesome - figured you'd be one of the ones if anyone did. Kudos.

 

[matt156]

Yes, you would, esp. as the IS price reductions were quite chunky:
The new wholesale pricing of R 55-00 per GB, which includes 10 GB of free local traffic, is a significant reduction over its previous price of R 89-00 per GB.

The full announcement is here:
http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=3903

That article was incorrect. The wholesale pricing only includes per GB and does not include any local bandwidth. Only the normal IS accounts include local bandwidth. They are referring to the normal IS 1GB / 10GB local access acount, which is not R55.

Imagine-IPS has drastically reduced our pricing in response to the IS reductions with our new ADSL sale pricing, which can be seen at http://www.imagine-ips.co.za/za/p62.html and is advertised on MyADSL. This new pricing effectively makes us the cheapest IS reseller.

 

[bwana]

@matt156 - kudos to you too and its nice to see a competitive attitude.

Seems like the IS guys are on the ball but what's the SAIX story?

 

[warichard]

As of September 1st we have reduced both our reseller and end-user ADSL prices on our shaped higher-capped accounts, as well as our shaped prepaid per GB rates, and are as follows:

Prepaid: R70 per GB, down from R75
5GB ADSL: R290, down from R345
10GB ADSL: R490, down from R580

All prices include VAT and are available immediately, we will also be automatically passing credits on to our clients who have already been billed with the old account prices.

 

[bwana]

Nice savings there on the post paid. Kinds pissed (at myself) that I ordered a prepaid last night instead of waiting for today

BTW - have you then done away with the shaped/unshaped structure?

 

[warichard]

Bwana, not at this time, I've revised the post to point out that those prices are still on the shaped accounts. We are currently still awaiting news from SAIX as to what will be done with regards to shaping/unshaping. As it stands we currently prefer to keep the shaped offering available at the lower prices rather than go with unshaped only and have all our accounts at the currently high unshaped prices.

 

[warichard]

The reduced per GB price on the IS-side does not apply to us as we sell on a per account basis (much like what SAIX used to do before they went per GB), though it does definitely make the per GB option with them far more attractive. For the moment however prices for IS accounts remain unchanged. However, we will be reviewing the pricing of the IS based accounts and likely reduce those as well in the near future.

 

[linkinpark]

but the shaped account prices from webafrica havent dropped since the wholesale price changes. That doesnt make sense

 

[warichard]

linkinpark, what are you referring to exactly? These price decreases listed are currently for our shaped offerings.

 

[linkinpark]

Oops, sorry. I went straight to the last page of this thread. Didnt see your eariler post about the reductions.

 

[VQuest]

warichard, any reason you're not dropping the 3GB account price?

I'm happy that the 1GB prepaid has come down slightly.

 

[bwana]

Ok - so that's three so far - in order of posting:

OpenWeb (IS)
Imagine (IS)
WebAfrica (SAIX)

But I'm thinking there have to be more than 3 ISPs in SA?

 

[nexushub]

We reduced our adsl as well as hosting prices as of last month.

 

[schitz011]

While I applaud the efforts of ISP's to reduce prices I must point out that my Openweb account has seen no price reduction at all in the last few months..

The 128-IS-3GB openbrowse account with 30gig local is still R249...

I would much rather see increases in Cap size than price reductions.

 

[Gnome]

I Second that my Openweb account is still the same price.