Your emails to/ from SEACOM!

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by the looks of this email i received from seacom they will be uncapped.

i asked them what pricing they would be charging and if their lines were capped/ uncapped/ shaped etc and this is the reply i got

"Hello *****,



See the attached brochure.



We sell line capacity and not capped /uncapped services.



The brochure will explain.



Cheers,"

for anyone wanting to know more about seacom visit their webpage found here.... http://www.seacom.mu/intro.html

or contact them here http://www.seacom.mu/contact/contact.html.

come on guys...lets all send them emails and post the replies you get here regarding capped/uncapped services from seacom so TELKOM CANNOT MAKE UP ANY MORE EXCUSES ABOUT LINES BEING CAPPED IN THE FUTURE.

i think if we all post our emails here and we have several hundred emails all stating that seacom only sell the speed and not the size, then Telkom wont have any excuses if they try and cap us stating that seacom caps them. So we got several more months to post emails here, and they responded to me within 12 hours (during non working hours), so guys...dont moan and say we capped we capped we capped.....start today.....so in the future there will be no excuses.
 
Seacom is only the means to an end - that last mile and the servicing thereof is dependent on the wholesalers that'll tier down that bandwidth to us.

Seacom is and has done all it can.
It's up to operators, ICA(n)SA and the rest of government to make sure our needs are fulfilled.

Networks big and small, fibre rings and Fibre To The Home (FTTH).
These are the kind of companies we need to get involved with.

Seacom is great and I love them for what they are doing here and on the continent.
They're bringing "true internet" to the country, it's left to this country's players to make sure we get it the way we want it: Fast, Affordable and Reliable ;) (FAR if you like LoL :D)
 
Um, Seacom is not an Internet Service Provider, they are a top tier provider. That is like phoning the wheat farmers and asking if they sell sliced bread.
 
Garyvdh said:
Um, Seacom is not an Internet Service Provider, they are a top tier provider. That is like phoning the wheat farmers and asking if they sell sliced bread.
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Yebo it was never going to be capped or uncapped they sell capacity. Same as the current cable just more of it.
 
if i was able to upload the file i would as it's not big, where in here can i upload the file as i cant find any setting to upload files.

yes...they are not an ISP, but.....they sell the line that the wholesalers will use, so technically the wholesalers will get an uncapped line, but it will depend what they wanna do with it, but if they do cap us then this country would probably be the only country in the world that caps the customer with such a small bit, hell....the US get their 1.5MB line with a 250GB international cap, so why do we get a 3 GB cap?

well...to cut a long story short....ISP's will be getting a faster uncapped line so now it's up to us to make a noise to ensure our uncappible status;)
 
If I am not mistaken, the reason that the ISP's cap us is to put more consumers on less lines, thus more profit, less expense.
They know that not all of their consumers will be online at the same time
 
yeAh, but that is not the right way to go, did they ever hear of marketing? people want fast uncapped lines, not capped lines, when ever i see the word "capped" on any packaged i turn my back and walk away, i dont even bother to read it, hell, even if u offered me a 4MB line with a 1GB cap for R150 a month i would laugh at you and tell u that u must be smoking something, but if u had to offer me a 1MB line uncapped, unshaped for say R350 a month, then you would win me over right away, but unless you are gonna start making offers like this, dont bother asking me if im interested, cuz quite frankly i think ur marketing strategy sux at the moment!!!!!!!!
 
Capping will probably never go away completely in South Africa. There will hopefully be uncapped products, but they will remain expensive. For most of us though we will have caps for quite a few years still. If they decide to do away with it, it will be around 2020. Seacom will simply mean that our caps will be larger. By a factor of 10 I hope! :p
 
Current ISPs also get uncapped lines from SAIX if I'm not mistaken. Seacom doing the same doesn't say much. If higher bandwidth lines are available for cheaper from seacom, then uncapped offerings by our current ISPs will be more affordable. Another thing, our adsl lines (4Mbit etc) aren't offered by ISPs nor seacom, only by telkom and one day hopefully neotel, so the line rental probably won't drop because of seacom. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong :)
 
kuga said:
So why don't we make our own ISP and sell true broadband to the consumers?
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Sure, you have the money to invest? Then you want to recover that over 2 years and still make a profit. Thus we are back to square1. Like Telkom and others GET the customer to pay what he is willing to pay and no less thus therefore the predicament we are in.
 
kuga said:
So why don't we make our own ISP and sell true broadband to the consumers?
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The business plan is the only thing lacking, but thinking out of the box is what got everyone else going ;)

So how many active registered users are we on this forum?
Everyone cough up R1k - R5k for the initial investment.
What are we looking at as a ballpark figure on that?

A gaming clan I belonged to some time back also wanted to go the ISP route, but we were to small (to few members) to get the cash flow going.
Though I think they did get it going eventually - how succesfull they are or were, I don't know.
Forget what the name of their site was right now...
 
Praeses said:
Current ISPs also get uncapped lines from SAIX if I'm not mistaken.
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Some of them yes. Usually those that don't just resell saix accounts. Afaik they eg. buy/hire/lease chunks of SAT3 at $x per mbps per month. They can then transfer 'unlimited' amounts of data over that line at the given speed.
 
Uhm,

No ISP (unless they are a virual ISP operating from some arb datacenter) pays per MB for uplink bandwidth - it is all based on fixed rates. Welcome to the real world, and this is why I HATE the whole per MB pricing scheme. It is nothing but a money making scheme used by ISPs
 
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