Web Africa uncapped ADSL in the pipeline

I was hoping for WA to actually drop their normal ADSL account prices (e.g. 5GB/R290). The uncapped solution will most likely be aimed at the business market and it won't really help the consumer.
 
Possibly SEACOM's biggest impact was bringing SAT3 prices down, not necessarily being the saviour itself.
 
Gaz{M} said:
Possibly SEACOM's biggest impact was bringing SAT3 prices down, not necessarily being the saviour itself.
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Very true. Bringing competition to the market was needed, and that is what SEACOM did. The cable system itself is certainly of value, but most providers will most likely still use SAT3/SAFE as their primary international bandwidth carrier.
 
So now they say SAT 3 is cheaper and more reliable than SEACOM, might as well just roll it up again and go home.
 
i want cheaper shaped
i want cheaper unshaped

and then

i would want cheaper uncapped...
 
Robocop said:
So now they say SAT 3 is cheaper and more reliable than SEACOM, might as well just roll it up again and go home.
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Not cheaper - but more competitive than two years ago. SEACOM is cheaper, but does not provide redundancy...SAT3 has SAFE as a 'backup' route...
 
Is that the status though... what exactly are the seacom problems?
 
I still don't understand, SAT 3 prices is said to have come down by 40 % or so since the inception of SEACOM, shouldn't we have seen price drops by now on the consumer side. Especially from Neotel since they have shares in both cables.
For example Prime Ulimited R999-40% = R599.
 
Robocop said:
I still don't understand, SAT 3 prices is said to have come down by 40 % or so since the inception of SEACOM, shouldn't we have seen price drops by now on the consumer side. Especially from Neotel since they have shares in both cables.
For example Prime Ulimited R999-40% = R599.
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Not always that easy: Their R 999 pricing may well have been in anticipation of SEACOM. We have shown previously what the cost for the provisioning of 1 GB of bandwidth is: even at R 20 per GB it means that a company will incur a loss rather quickly. This is why true uncapped services are typically very expensive.
 
rpm said:
Not always that easy: Their R 999 pricing may well have been in anticipation of SEACOM. We have shown previously what the cost for the provisioning of 1 GB of bandwidth is: even at R 20 per GB it means that a company will incur a loss rather quickly. This is why true uncapped services are typically very expensive.
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But there still isn't an excuse for not making local 100% uncapped in the true sense of the word... flat rated and unlimited...
 
If Neotel has any brains it would "link" SEACOM to SAT3/SAFE as it owns bandwidth on both. Then viola we have SEACOM with redundancy. I'll be very surprised if this isn't already being offered to corporates.
 
if their prices are good they will attract customers.
 
And from where does all the Sat3/SAFE bandwidth come from now, there was nothing and that is why they said that there prices were that high?
 
We keep hearing the argument that SEACOM has no backup. Why can ISPs not just use SEACOM and then if it goes down, route all the traffic over SAT3? I imagine this is how the failover works wrt SAT3/SAFE?

Interesting news from WA - it seems they are in a position where they can potentially start offering some exciting changes to the SA broadband situation. Or am I too hopeful?

Nick
 
I use 2 b lost and then I found WA :) They might not b the cheapest currently but their service is great and seem 2 have some clever guy doing their coding :)
 
rpm said:
Not cheaper - but more competitive than two years ago. SEACOM is cheaper, but does not provide redundancy...SAT3 has SAFE as a 'backup' route...
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Check your sources. Telkom dropped pricing on the SAT3 cable to be directly in line with SEACOM 2 months before launch of the cable. I'm not suprised that all the ISP's kept this under wraps, especially Web Africa, now testing their own Tier 1 facility.

With the upgrade of SAT3 I also expect more providers being able to afford direct access instead of going through SAIX/IS
 
all i can say is :D that's great, finally an ISP who will have control over everything, this should be a step up for SA broadband... Now if only Telkom would drop prices for us ADSL users.
 
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