Bandwidth prices to plummet

lower bandwidth costs = more profit for fat cats.
If the cost saving gets passed to the customer, I'll be heavily surprised.

Hold thumbs though!
 
"Expexted"; "likely"; "confident" - three words that also describe my feelings when I play the lotto. Yet the odds are stacked against me.

Call me a sceptic till prices really plummet.
 
Peder said:
I REALLY hope this comes true, would be heavy kewl :)

R7.90/GB International YOHOO!!

R0.12/GB Local YOHOO!!
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hrm.. depends, i was about to just type 'woah isp's are gonna die' and then realized that they usually only add small % to the current price. saix.. oh how i wonder how they will regret introducing usage models now muwahahahaha

Can u imagine with a prepaid system the rental being the most expensive bit
 
"South Africa’s local and international bandwidth pricing remains one of the biggest hindrances to broadband and IT growth in the country."

I would have thought Ivy was the cause more than anything else.

Just for Libs....

</ End Ivy's charmed life>
 
At the end of the day, it's talk. And talk is, um... whats that word again? Oh yes, cheap.
 
12 to 18 months. That's too long. If Seacom is launching May 2009, Why should we only see a reduction in 12 months (November 2009) to 18 months (May 2010).

Personally, for us the end user, I don't expect international bandwidth prices to drop by 80%. 1GB currently R65 or R55. The lowest it will go to in 12-18 months is R30/GB. There'll be too much profit taking.
 
zeb said:
"Expexted"; "likely"; "confident" - three words that also describe my feelings when I play the lotto. Yet the odds are stacked against me.

Call me a sceptic till prices really plummet.
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I am with you on this!

With all the simultaneous fibre projects some commentators predicted a bandwidth glut in South Africa in future, but SEACOM’s Herlihy said that the concept of too much bandwidth is not realistic.
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I agree. I reckon that we will always find ways to use all storage and bandwidth. You can never have too much for long :)
 
Something i was just thinking now, the cost of local bandwidth is likely to remain constant as that is Telkom + saix/is/uunet dependant and remember isp's have to pay for connections.

What i do however see changing tho is isp's perhaps buying they way they do their ADSL accounts at the moment. If the isp is large enough, they can lay their own cable to landing site and circumvent telkom/neotel links to there(if telkom wants to still milk us) which could save a lot in the long run combined with maybe proxy/vpn like services?

Just think, an openbrowse like solution might work out better than buying a international adsl account?
 
I'm with most people on this thread. I'll believe it when I see it.
How about we stop reading weekly reports promising cheaper international bandwidth "soon" and we start seeing results.

Lets not forget that ISP's and other providers are in this to make a big fat profit first!

We've seen Virgin Mobile, Neotel, number portability, cheap fibre access (for the Telco's and ISP's, savings are never passed onto the consumer) and a million changes in policy, but at the end of the month my cellphone and DSL bill is still inflated.
 
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