WiMax pricing explained

Smelling a rat right here!

If you can run the service with a normal DSL account like a verison-,saix- and IS-" unshaped" over wimax it compares JUST AS GOOD as their apparent "leased" line version.

A moerske lot cheaper aswell!

telkom wimax ftw!
 
So because Wimax has the "advantage" of a better contention ratio, that is reason enough to charge higher rates? Are all these telecoms companies just out to take advantage of this country?

Here iBurst has the perfect opportunity to offer direct competition to Telkom's ADSL, but greed prices the product out of the market.
 
iBurst WiMax may be expensive, but there is a reason for it.
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Sorry this article doesn't really explain in clear terms why the costs are so high.
You have a price breakdown and then mention a little bit about contention ratios.

The Staffwriter needs to really dig a little to shine above the average journo in south africa. This article reads like he went and looked at the product spec sheet on ibursts website.

How about some international comparisons, iburst comment or device costs?
 
I suppose this is one way to keep the contention ratios low. Overprice the product so that no one in their right minds will use it and guess what? You end up with low contention ratios.

If they did supply WiMax at ADSL prices they would not be able to maintain the low contention ratios (as has been my experience with cell towers, oversold pieces of ...)
 
Yep, another myopic article that seems to be more of an advert than anything overly informative.
 
i don't care it cost to much, way to much! #$%$#!
 
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Contesion Ratio Alone

I am sorry but contention ratio alone cannot be the only selling point.
Internationally, contention ratio's of 20/1 not 50/1 as suggested by the article.

I cannot believe how much BULLS*** these companies try to feed you.

Lease circuit, right Wimax = Broadband.... Right.

What bull.

I am sick of these companies comparing themselves to anything internationally and then saying it is a true comparison. Internationally, best effort does not exist.
 
armitage said:
Sorry this article doesn't really explain in clear terms why the costs are so high.
You have a price breakdown and then mention a little bit about contention ratios.

The Staffwriter needs to really dig a little to shine above the average journo in south africa. This article reads like he went and looked at the product spec sheet on ibursts website.

How about some international comparisons, iburst comment or device costs?
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...or copied the press release from iBurst word 4 word, as is usually the case....
 
when to much complains.... go pricing explained :rolleyes::D
 
I suspect most of the people who posted above have not actually used this WiMax product nor understand its positioning?

I have. For around a year now, and in that time the link went down maybe 3 times. (A CPE reboot fixed it).

I get my 1024/1024 service 24x7 and this is international as confirmed by my extensive use of international performance test sites like giganews which shows a constant downlink speed of 120KB/s. Torrent-based uplink tests show a similar level of performance.

So, if you're in a non-ADSL area (like I am) and you need a highly reliable, stable link with near guaranteed throughput, this is probably your only option.

I honestly don't see this product aimed at normal residential use. Rather it's a Diginet replacement for SME's and up.
 
vodacom3g said:
I suspect most of the people who posted above have not actually used this WiMax product nor understand its positioning?

I have. For around a year now, and in that time the link went down maybe 3 times. (A CPE reboot fixed it).

I get my 1024/1024 service 24x7 and this is international as confirmed by my extensive use of international performance test sites like giganews which shows a constant downlink speed of 120KB/s. Torrent-based uplink tests show a similar level of performance.

So, if you're in a non-ADSL area (like I am) and you need a highly reliable, stable link with near guaranteed throughput, this is probably your only option.

I honestly don't see this product aimed at normal residential use. Rather it's a Diginet replacement for SME's and up.
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So why offer a "diginet replacement" in areas that don't have ADSL coverage?

Why throw those two statements together?

And one last thing, who decided that Wimax should be a diginet replacement? Why not do something that telscum is getting right just once. Offer Wimax for what it is: Last mile access.

I don't care what voda and ibust think are best for international connectivity. Why not let me choose? Offer me a Wimax link for a fixed price, and let me choose what to do with it?

Oh, wait, telscum has that option. Guess who I will be contacting if I ever need Wimax... ;)
 
Wimax is for mobile internet access. Why the heck pay this much if HSDPA or 3G will give you your fix even if its slower...Wimax is just a whole big fail for me with the ridiculous pricing all round.
 
Contending means competing for bandwidth. So if the contention ratio is 4:1 and four customers have a 1 meg service each, that means those 4 customers compete for 1 Meg of total bandwidth on the network. If all 4 are using the service at the same time, they each get 256kbps.

A contention ratio is like megapixels on a camera - it's marketing speak and offers very little insight into the quality of a broadband connection.

I doubt whether any non-business user would notice the difference between 3:1 and 20:1, certainly not 3:1 and 4:1 or even 5:1.
 
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vodacom3g said:
I get my 1024/1024 service 24x7 and this is international as confirmed by my extensive use of international performance test sites like giganews which shows a constant downlink speed of 120KB/s. Torrent-based uplink tests show a similar level of performance.
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I'm really interested to know: How is the latency? (Let's say you can't get ADSL, would a low-contention WiMax product then be the best option for gaming purposes?)
 
Don't these people think we have Google or do they think our connection is so low that we won't be able to go and do some research ourselfes.
 
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