Makedon said:
thats like 5% Iburst users are happy with the service but 95% unhappy....
how can you say that though, even if there are 100 users commenting on the service on this forum, which there arent, that makes up 1% of the total user-base. Add with that the fact that this whole forum was created to attract people who are unhappy with services there is no way you can substantiate your comment by saying this forum is representitive of the overall user-base.
Lets look at the evidence shall we, we have maybe 20 - 25 users here that say they are unhappy with the iBurst service and 10 that say they are happy, everyone else who comments on the service are mainly users burned from Sentech who don't have the service or over protective ADSL users who don't have the service either.
Take TheRoDent for example, he said I was lying when I said I even had speeds ever over 100KB/s, now we all know thats false but that blatant lying for whatever reason leads other people to say "well OK if he says it I guess it must be true", the overall weight of his posts is anti-iburst with a "get ADSL" tone, now he's allowed an opinion but its not based on anything other than reading some unhappy users posts and assuming we are all liek that, well that added with the fact that he seems to have soemthing against iBurst.
Now I just used him as an example, I could have used lots of people, but I'd say aside from the helpfull/informative threads/post about iBurst from iBurst users this forum is really about ADSL, ADSL is king and everything else must be worse. People get very defensive about it too.
The facts are nobody here knows whether the majority are happy or unhappy, that WBS has about 10 000 users whom are not tied to WBS (even if you signed the 24 month contract you can still cancel), so are you telling me 10 000 paying month after month are unhappy?? If you were unhappy you could easily choose other options so it wouldn't make sense that WBS's yearly projections were filled in 2 months.
Look choose ADSL if its best for you, nobody cares but in this country something like iBurst will beat the pants off ADSL because:
1. it's faster, even if my iBurst is having bad problems its faster than adsl 512, the ones with the bad problems are still faster than adsl 384.
2. it's instant, you get it when you want it just like you would if you lived in a normal country
3. its cheap, if my iBurst was so bad it was as SLOW as myadsl 384 or even worse 192 it would still be cheaper than the ADSL alternatives
4. it can be everywhere, its easier and faster to stick up a tower than to get exchanges digitised
5. ITS NOT TELKOM, I find it fairly amusing that the main 'activists' are ploughing money into Telkom's monopoly knowingly. Fact is telkom might get a cut of the money i pay to WBS, but not as much as they would if i went with them directly and I like that.
6. It is the ONLY broadband comparable with countries we like to compare ourselves to, like australia, in aus you get cable with a limit every month, 10GB on average, you pay about the same price as you do for iBurst 9GB with an extra GB.
And you know what people can come to myadsl and diss or praise the service all they want, but its not going to stop loads of people signing up to WBS for one/all or more than the reasons above, so the pecimists are just fighting a losing battle. More users signed to iBurst since the launch (april of this year) than ADSL got in a whole year and a half after its launch, my friends in daveton aren't going to get ADSL anytime soon because so few exchanges support it and it costs a wad for anything remotley comparable to overseas speed and bandwith, but iBurst makes broadband accesable to everyone. ADSL is for elitist geeks slash IT gurus in this country and iBurst is for the entire spectrum. We are mainly geeks here, but the profit isn't with geeks its with bringing broadband to joe average who wants to shop online, download a film or two (legally of course) and check email, people who don't even know what shaping means and don't care to learn, and thats why WBS is smart.
I think they should change the name of this section of the forum to "MORE ADSL!! (and sometimes iBurst)"
and 1mbps is way faster than 192kbps or 384kbps which would fall in the same price range. Then again I would go with ADSL if I had many problems like some ppl on the forum.
