Broadband Infraco plans to cut telecoms prices

One more step in the right direction. When all of these systems come online prices will drop in a major way.

Good times ahead.

Someones seriously has to campaign to get the IP connect price reduced. Local loop unbundling is going to be stalled into eternity.

Maybe we need to email JZ ;)
 
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Lies lies and more lies. They need to show a gap that they can fill, so they claim they will bring down prices.

Notel did exactly the same, claimed they need the licenses so that they can bring down prices. The moment they got their licenses they started shafting the public right there alongside telscum.

So, they need a reason to exist: To bring down prices.
Once they exist: Profit!
 
jak3 said:
One more step in the right direction. When all of these systems come online prices will drop in a major way.

Good times ahead.

Someones seriously has to campaign to get the IP connect price reduced. Local loop unbundling is going to be stalled into eternity.

Maybe we need to email JZ ;)
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+ 1. Telkom's dominance of the local loop is what is keeping prices up. Either they have to relinquish control of their exchanges and allow other providers to install DSLAMs there (LLU) or they have to relinquish control of their ADSL cloud to a neutral third-party to allow all ISP's equal and cheap access to the last mile connection.
 
Over the last financial year Broadband Infraco expanded its transmission capacity by 33% while the quality of the network was enhanced with the objective of achieving service availability levels of 99.95%.
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Very funny. If you are a carrier of carriers your service availability OBJECTIVE should not be 99.95% - carrier or carriers/ Tier-1 networks Service Availability targets is the so called five 9s. 99.999% (works out to 5 minutes per year). Look if Infraco doesn't take themselves seriously, why should the market?

99.95% is over 4 hours of unavailability per year. For carrier of carriers this is unacceptable.
 
The consumer is not the target, once again. So, while this is all luke warm fuzziness it does about the same for us when compared to SEACOM. We can hope for prices to drop, but once again it will be up to the little guys to do so. From the big guys, prices will not drop and there will be many conflicting explanations as to why not.
 
jak3 said:
One more step in the right direction. When all of these systems come online prices will drop in a major way.
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It'll look cheap on paper, but when you add in the tax hikes that will result from all of the bailouts then it all evens out.
 
porchrat said:
It'll look cheap on paper, but when you add in the tax hikes that will result from all of the bailouts then it all evens out.
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Cheaper internet will help the economy grow. Look at india.
 
‘significantly lowering prices’...just like SEACOM was going to, until it was explained that it would, in fact, make no difference at all to the end consumer.

Yay, for South Africa Telecoms
 
Still wating, still wating after/for 5years+, promisses, big talk, lots of expectations, exitement and after all that

STILL FKING NOTHING!!!
 
We know the procedure :

Hype, More Hype, getting ready, imminent, imminent, imminent, launch, long delay to filter "down to end users"....., nothing

Then start cycle again with another company.
 
There is a significant conflict of interest with this development.

How can an entity (government) who wholly own an enterprise (BBI) compete with a company that it partially owns (Telkom)??

Either:
(a) nationalise Telkom and combine it with BBI to form a non-profit govenrment department, or
(b) sell its entire stake in Telkom and then compete head-on via BBI.
 
Rouxenator said:
We know the procedure :

Hype, More Hype, getting ready, imminent, imminent, imminent, launch, long delay to filter "down to end users"....., nothing

Then start cycle again with another company.
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Who said that when you are being raped you should enjoy it :confused: :rolleyes: :eek:
 
jak3 said:
Cheaper internet will help the economy grow. Look at india.
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You're missing my point.

The economy won't grow if the total cost to the consumer is still the same. Internet won't end up cheaper because Infraco will be run inefficiently, money will be stolen, tenders given to inept buddies, union officials pandered to and before you know it your tax money is being used to bail the monstrosity out.

The sum goes kind of like this:
(cost of privatised internet) = x

(cost of infraco internet - arguably cheaper than regular internet from a private company in much the same way as fares on SAA and Mango are cheaper than competitors) + (your tax money used to bailout infraco when it collapses) = 2x

In the end when broadband infraco gets screwed up by the government you are going to end up paying more for internet, not less.

Has our government gleaned nothing from their experiences with other failed state-owned white elephants?

Unless they are prepared to sell this monstrosity off the minute they can't handle it then I don't want to hear about it.

Of course this is merely my opinion and if a flaw exists in my thinking then please let me know.
 
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Broadband Infraco said it will adopt a wholesale, carrier-of-carriers business model, as the most effective way of making the network and services available to its future target market.
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Over the last financial year Broadband Infraco expanded its transmission capacity by 33% while the quality of the network was enhanced with the objective of achieving service availability levels of 99.95%.
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99.95% availability level is not carrier class :rolleyes:

Broadband Infraco is a government orginasation, Telkom is partly governement owned, does no one see a problem with this on multiple levels?
 
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