Neotel NeoFlex pricing comparison

they not bad but not so great either, dare i say telkom even looks better.:eek:
 
I still don't see why NeoFlex Data should be more expensive than the NeoConnect Prime. Sure, it has more speed, but then the Prime option have a lot of other extras. If the price was at least the same, it would have made more sense. At the moment, it looks like 1.3Mb/s of bandwidth is worth more than all those free minutes and sms's they bundle with the Prime package.
 
Neotel’s consumer offerings have an out of bundle rate of 8c per MB, significantly lower than Vodacom and MTN’s R 1.20 or Telkom’s 30c.
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Doesn't it cost R69 for 1GB with a Telkom line, as far as I know that works out to 7c per MB, cheaper than Neotel there who stated they would be undercutting Telkom's prices. Am I wrong, or did the person stating this make a massive mistake, or is this thing just seriously biased in favour of Neotel? I've had that impression more than once now on MyBroadBand.


sunsoffun said:
You also have to take into consideration the QOS.... who is the worse of the lot?
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That is seriously debatable the way things are going, I have never had a problem with my ADSL on the Telkom side, infact installation/activation was far quicker than they said it would be and the only problems I've had are thanks to ISP/I.S. While I read about people loosing coverage with Neotel and recently their network and website went down.

I'm not trying to defend Telkom (if Bin Laden offered the best/cheapest internet I would take my money there for all I care, I have 0 loyalty to any of these blood suckes), but Neotel is currently unimpressive and are not delivering on their promises and require you to to buy stupid hardware (that you can't sell since you have to buy it when signing up) and they are not undercutting Telkom as they said they would.

Infact Neotel seems like nothing more than a glorified iBurst.





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Isn't Neotel now majority owned by Tata, an Indian company? If that's the case I wouldn't expect much from them, people running it from another country won't give a damn about anything other than how much money they can suck out of the country. Remember what happened with Telkom when it was basically run by some american telecoms company. Competition will be the last thing they want.
 
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Nope, I stay with my iBurst for R239/month and get 8Gig/month just a lot slower:)
 
Now why cant they just increase the upload speeds on the prime and make it a decent service??? 7kBps is pathetic....cant they even give us 384K upload? thats the only complaint I have at the moment with them..
 
Could anyone tell me where I can get a Telkom 4Mg ADSL line with 10Gb bandwidth for R1135 p/m including the ADSL and line connection fees.
 
Well obviously they make more profit on the "extras" in the Neoconnect prime package.So take that out of the equation and there is not enough profit to reduce the price of the Neoflex offering.

Also, they have totally missed the 5Gig offering for Home use. Why the hell not?
Telkom gives me 5Gig (on a 3Gig account 4Mb ADSL) on closer package for R680 not to mention the free local. Why not beat that !!!

No Home offering - no use to me.

Tata my Neotel tata
 
Style said:
Now why cant they just increase the upload speeds on the prime and make it a decent service??? 7kBps is pathetic....cant they even give us 384K upload? thats the only complaint I have at the moment with them..
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The limitation is more the device and than the network. Its transmitter is not that strong and I've looked into somehow boosting the signal but there are no off the shelf products yet. (Came across similar issues in Europe on the web)
 
Let's hope Neotel also reads the article and that they notice that there is a pricing discrepancy between their products.

If pricing sanity would be restored between Neoflex and Neoconnect, things would look significantly better.

Still, the pricing is overall insanely high compared to our international trading partners.
 
Browser said:
Doesn't it cost R69 for 1GB with a Telkom line, as far as I know that works out to 7c per MB, cheaper than Neotel there who stated they would be undercutting Telkom's prices. Am I wrong, or did the person stating this make a massive mistake, or is this thing just seriously biased in favour of Neotel? I've had that impression more than once now on MyBroadBand.
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You're thinking of ADSL, and this is not an ADSL offering.
 
Thank you MyBroadband for the fast and detailed Neoflex pricing of yesterday and the comparison of today.
I understand why its being compared to Telkom 4Mbps. I remember last year when you previewed their NeoFlex router, and it got speeds rivalling Tkom's 4Mb service. I have one question tho.

Can you tell me if this NeoFlex service is shaped like NeoConnect, and what protocols get lesser priority?
As a gamer, who wants good delay, and a large inexpensive cap, this is the deciding factor.

Thank you again for a great comparison chart... showing that no other wireless service comes close to their pricing(undercut by R300), and even Telkom's fixed line with their 1month installation+1month activition service.


And to all the people moaning about NeoConnect being cheaper.. u need to wake up and realize that NeoConnect is slower and focused on consumers who want to move away from Telkom's fixed line telephone services. And you can't offer an uncapped wireless service with a free router that lets you share the connection with countless ppl.
 
Please fix the table for download speeds for Neotel, it's misleading as the advertised speeds can in no way be achieved. I'm on prime unlimited and can barely get 300kbs. Should read 'Claimed' or 'Theoritical'
 
Agreed, no point helping neotel advertise speeds that are never actually ever reached.
 
MurderFace said:
Thank you MyBroadband for the fast and detailed Neoflex pricing of yesterday and the comparison of today.
I understand why its being compared to Telkom 4Mbps. I remember last year when you previewed their NeoFlex router, and it got speeds rivalling Tkom's 4Mb service. I have one question tho.

Can you tell me if this NeoFlex service is shaped like NeoConnect, and what protocols get lesser priority?
As a gamer, who wants good delay, and a large inexpensive cap, this is the deciding factor.

Thank you again for a great comparison chart... showing that no other wireless service comes close to their pricing(undercut by R300), and even Telkom's fixed line with their 1month installation+1month activition service.


And to all the people moaning about NeoConnect being cheaper.. u need to wake up and realize that NeoConnect is slower and focused on consumers who want to move away from Telkom's fixed line telephone services. And you can't offer an uncapped wireless service with a free router that lets you share the connection with countless ppl.
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Neoconnect isn't shaped. Neither is Neoflex.

Browser said:
Doesn't it cost R69 for 1GB with a Telkom line, as far as I know that works out to 7c per MB, cheaper than Neotel there who stated they would be undercutting Telkom's prices. Am I wrong, or did the person stating this make a massive mistake, or is this thing just seriously biased in favour of Neotel? I've had that impression more than once now on MyBroadBand.




That is seriously debatable the way things are going, I have never had a problem with my ADSL on the Telkom side, infact installation/activation was far quicker than they said it would be and the only problems I've had are thanks to ISP/I.S. While I read about people loosing coverage with Neotel and recently their network and website went down.

I'm not trying to defend Telkom (if Bin Laden offered the best/cheapest internet I would take my money there for all I care, I have 0 loyalty to any of these blood suckes), but Neotel is currently unimpressive and are not delivering on their promises and require you to to buy stupid hardware (that you can't sell since you have to buy it when signing up) and they are not undercutting Telkom as they said they would.

Infact Neotel seems like nothing more than a glorified iBurst.





edit,,,,

Isn't Neotel now majority owned by Tata, an Indian company? If that's the case I wouldn't expect much from them, people running it from another country won't give a damn about anything other than how much money they can suck out of the country. Remember what happened with Telkom when it was basically run by some american telecoms company. Competition will be the last thing they want.
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I dare you to try but 10mb of data for 70c.
 
Has the data usage with Neotel been sorted? If not, your 10Gb account can end up costing around R1,245 anyways... :sick:
 
cbrunsdonza said:
The limitation is more the device and than the network. Its transmitter is not that strong and I've looked into somehow boosting the signal but there are no off the shelf products yet. (Came across similar issues in Europe on the web)
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You're right that it's the device but it's not the output power, rather kind of modulation they use. This then determines the up/down speeds you'll get.

As a rough analogy, the 'Lite' product uses "GPRS", the 'Prime' offering will be using "3G" and the 'Flex' product "HSDPA".

I'm too lazy right now to get the exact modulations they use for each product but read up a bit on CDMA and you'll see the different speeds.
 
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