Broadband awards

The Broadband Provider of the Year, recognizing both excellence in providing broadband access and changing the industry for the better - was claimed by Vodacom for a third year running.
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Shouldn't Voda get the BrowseBand award with latency figures past the 500ms mark for local resources?
Yea, I know I should have spoken sooner, but, I only started really using Voda "broadband" recently.
See you next year Voda.
 
stoke said:
Shouldn't Voda get the BrowseBand award with latency figures past the 500ms mark for local resources?
Yea, I know I should have spoken sooner, but, I only started really using Voda "broadband" recently.
See you next year Voda.
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And lets not forget the Frequent Timeouts Award .... Voda best by far!!!

There's just no competition ;)
 
The best Internet Service Provider of the Year was won by Axxess with an overall customer satisfaction rate of 89% lifting them above the competition.
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I must admit that I love these guys! Well done! You deserve it.
 
I say Special award for Virgin Mobile for their 50c per MB (now 60c) data rate. For out-of-bundle use (like using a cellphone to view the internet) it's awesome.
 
On my votes regarding "changing the industry for the better" I didn't choose any option for either Telkom [work] or Vodacom [home].

How does Vodacom win this when prices have not changed for two years nor has there been any innovative data offerings [such as seen by the ADSL ISPS] and pricing is decidedly the same as MTN?:confused:
 
The axxess/engen prepaid & topup system is pretty awesome :)
 
stoke said:
Shouldn't Voda get the BrowseBand award with latency figures past the 500ms mark for local resources?
Yea, I know I should have spoken sooner, but, I only started really using Voda "broadband" recently.
See you next year Voda.
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No doubt there will soon be a bunch of posts accusing me of defending Vodacom, I do however think I have a valid point even if everyone else disagrees.

IIRC, from your recent posts in MBB's Vodacom forum, you're using Vodacom's EDGE service, which is 2.75G, and IMO EDGE [as implemented in SA] is not actually broadband, GPRS and EDGE suffer from the timeslot limitations of GSM.

HSPA is a completely different radio network, with different problems [primarily higher frequency and cell breathing - both of which require more base stations to provide GSM-equivalent cell-cluster coverage], but HSPA does have lower latency - provided that there aren't backhaul contention issues in a particular area - which comes back to Telkodemonopolies and its pathetic Digicrap lines.

My point is, if you are referring to EDGE [in SA] as a broadband service, then it is not broadband.
 
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