When will iBurst drop prices...?

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Your top up rate is extremely high. Looking at other services (DSL) they offer top ups of under R100/GB for unshaped traffic, iBurst charges R499 for 3GB =
R166/GB as the cheapest they have for shaped traffic.

Will you drop prices?
 
Ludicrous out of bundles rates destroy Iburst as a serious broadband service. Of course the same can be said for VC and MTN. Only Neotel have got the pricing right, if not their coverage. And ADSL works best because there is so much flexibility in designing your package.

Extra bandwidth prices for iBurst used to be much cheaper, competing well with ADSL. Then someone decided that iBurst should be competing with the cell operators, rather. That is where the crappy, idiotic, out-of-bundle mentality comes from.

Additional bandwidth usage should be charged on a reducing scale, not an increasing one. It is very short sighted, greedy and exploitative. It has driven many users from the service.
 
Another thing that iBurst should consider is upping the throttle speed to at least about 128K - i mean 64K wtf...
 
They can't drop anything right now cause they've got a new CEO that will require a BIG bonus at the end of this year.
 
No doubt Iburst will come back by comparing their prices to other wireless operators and saying how cheap they are compared to them. They will completely miss the point that what we want is a wireless provider whose pricing is comparable to fixed line offerings.
 
1 Gigabyte VS 30 megabytes.

Odracir said:
They can't drop anything right now cause they've got a new CEO that will require a BIG bonus at the end of this year.
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Yeah, that guy came from a company that believes it's OK to charge people R2 for a single meg....

iBurst and vodacom are both pathetic - unreliable Wireless with high latencies which makes online gaming SUCK, at insane prices.

People think Telkom is bad - but what about the pathetic wireless iBurst/Vodacom?

Vodacoms Out of Bundle, In Bundle, Advanced and Basic options are silly...

Basically, if a Company works in MEGS, and not GIGS, it's a a Mickey mouse Internet.

If you want real internet get ADSL and pay a fixed rate for how many Gigs you want, or Unlimited Internet. axxess/etc charge like 60 bucks per gig - vodacom would give you 30 megs.

I know it's out of bundle - but we want freedom, and not watch our connection like a hawk - sometimes we go over - it happens.

1 Gigabyte VS 30 megabytes? Vodacom is screwing the public!

And ADSL Latencies are the only way to go if you want to join the rest of the world with online games - wireless sucks at it.

I know i'm ranting about Vodacom, but their Representative is now an iBurst CEO - so just saying that you should expect nothing better, because they can't do it.
 
PeterCH said:
Your top up rate is extremely high. Looking at other services (DSL) they offer top ups of under R100/GB for unshaped traffic, iBurst charges R499 for 3GB =
R166/GB as the cheapest they have for shaped traffic.

When will you drop prices?
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When pigs fly.
 
ADSL is definitely the way to go in the future. iBurst will never be able to compete on price, speed or latency.
 
I really think some of these comments towards Jannie is a little uncalled for. Firstly he was not the CEO of Vodacom before he took the lead at iBurst as CEO, so lets compare apples with apples here. How many of you in this thread were operating within set boundaries at one job, and on promotion to the next job was given freedom to realise your full potential. Come on be honest.

Secondly his efforts as the previous Vodacom rep here was noted by many of us as commendable, and his current representation as iBurst CEO is visible, his posts and comments transparent and his efforts can already be seen in the reduction of technical issues with the iBurst network (and I have to mention Shaun here too).

So, lets give the man his chance to make things right before starting the mudslinging. I myself, as many of you, have been with iBurst for many years, I have felt the pain of absurd bandwith booster prices with you, and have had my fair share of run-ins with their (notorious) accounts department.
 
How many of you in this thread were operating within set boundaries at one job, and on promotion to the next job was given freedom to realise your full potential.
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What does this have to do with anything? :confused: [not that it makes much sense, considering that promotions should do that regardless - else it's not much of a promotion?]

So, lets give the man his chance to make things right before starting the mudslinging.
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I have, twice... seems that iBurst still loves to ignore it's customers. Serisously, was anyone else informed they moved offices? I wasn't and ruined my day trying to find them! I've also email accounts department 3 times, of which all were 100% ignored (reason for having to try and find the new offices, find iBurst ignores you less when you are there in person).

Not much has changed.
 
I'm sorry, but at the moment iBurst are guilty until proven innocent, not the other way around. They have had enough chances, it's time to move past the 56k-like internet at decent prices. not even kenya's ISP's are this pathetic.

V3G had a hand in bringing us Broadband Advanced for vodacom - I'm sorry, but the team that came up with that is a FAIL, nuff said.


Yeah, ok - so the signal towers cost money. good. but i'm sure they have been paid for by now...so why not bring down the prices eh?

At this moment in time i'm grouping Vodacom along with iBurst - yeah, 3G is a bit faster, but at what price?

Nothing is uncalled for anymore - the time has come to get SA's internet on the move now, come now, we've had enough of this bullsh|t.
 
HCT_Banned? said:
iburst is rubbish i have been using it for a year or so

once a month they are down or there is a problem with something
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it's not that - it's just, even when it's even working 100%, it's not really working...if you get what im saying... :erm:
 
1. iBurst caps us.
-What is cap?
It is a money making 'scheme'.
-Do we need cap?
No.
-Why not?
Because iBurst does not have a cap that they are restricted to and therefore
have no reason to cap us other than the fact that they are greedy pigs who lie
about the costs of running a internet service, saying it is extremely expensive
when in reality is is no where near as much as they make it out to be.
-How do you know this?
Well, look at the prices of internet in other countries. There you get uncapped
internet, you only pay more if you want a faster line additionally the line speeds
there are 'miles' ahead of the speeds we have here, we have a max line speed of
1mb/s with iBurst, in most other countries a 1mb/s speed is not even an option
it's so slow.
-But the prices for bandwidth out of the country are high, so they must be expensive.
No. That is wrong, thanks to the seacom cable data in and out of the country is
now much cheaper and much faster with low latency. In the past caps were
designed to keep peoples usage low so the lines would not get congested, but
that is over, there is no longer any excuse to have caps in this country and
therefore the prices we pay are extreme.

2. In theory we pay thousands of times more for our internet than any other country.

-How is that so?
It is like that because we have a hard limit on how much data we can use, for
example when I was in Mauritius you could pay less than R300 for a 1mb/s line that
came with uncapped bandwidth. Lets say then that I downloaded 30gb that
month and ended up paying R300 for it, then the next month I downloaded 50gb
and ended up paying R300... Now compare it to here, we get 3GB of bandwidth
for R449 and lets compare that to the uncapped internet, you'd be paying R300
a month for any amount of data you would like to transfer, lets do a calculation
take 1mb/s and work out how much you could get in 30 days of downloading, if
my maths is correct that's (((60x60x24x30)/10)/1000) that's aprox. 259.2 GB for
R300 and we pay R449 for 3GB... so if I'm correct we pay 38793.6 times more
than they do, in theory of course.

In conclusion we can say that iBurst is robbing us blind, we should kill them all!
 
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