Cheaper bandwidth in Lesotho

Check the traceroute to Lesotho Telecom routes via IS and its cheaper
too, 1/2 the price of SAIX prices.

Telkom SAIX
64k SAIX Gold R6k/month
128k SAIX Gold R12k/month
256k SAIX Gold R24k/month
512k SAIX Gold R48k/month +- Please update
1 Mb SAIX Gold R100k/month +- Please update
2 Mb SAIX Gold R250k/month +- Please update

Lesotho Telecom (LT)
64k LT Gold R1.8k/month
128k LT Gold R3.2k/month
256k LT Gold R5.8k/month
512k LT Gold R10.3k/month
1 Mb LT Gold R19.5k/month
1 Lesotho Loti = 1 ZAR
Not sure of CIR and contention ratios

http://196.211.2.162/cgi-bin/traceroute.cgi?t=www.telecom.co.ls
Local IS Peering link to Lesotho (no International hop).

196.211.2.161 (196.211.2.161) 1.386 ms 1.894 ms 1.480 ms
2 196.211.129.13 (196.211.129.13) 73.672 ms 62.600 ms 65.929 ms
3 196.36.80.209 (196.36.80.209) 73.080 ms 65.725 ms 63.681 ms
4 196.26.96.203 (196.26.96.203) 68.654 ms 62.227 ms 74.369 ms
5 isl.nmszone.is.co.za (196.26.0.3) 66.303 ms 63.677 ms 64.661 ms
6 168.209.86.122 (168.209.86.122) 69.216 ms 69.008 ms 63.888 ms
7 196.38.244.10 (196.38.244.10) 93.561 ms 94.583 ms 94.495 ms
8 217.74.230.6 (217.74.230.6) 102.429 ms 118.567 ms 94.005 ms
9 gw1.ilesotho.com (209.212.124.81) 124.544 ms 105.501 ms 121.347 ms
10 196.202.243.129 (196.202.243.129) 99.419 ms 105.179 ms 94.583 ms
11 mail.health.gov.ls (196.202.244.98) 121.067 ms 110.844 ms 105.119 ms

Lesotho Telecom Internet gateway provided by Econet http://www.econetsatellite.co.uk/
Lesotho Telecom website http://www.telecom.co.ls/news/wless_bband.htm
1 Lesotho Loti = 1 ZAR
http://www.telecom.co.ls/news/wless_bband.htm

A slight comparison mistake here..

These prices should be compared towards ADSL pricing in SA, Iburst or Mywireless, probably the same contention on it aswell.

In that case, the lesotho prices doesnt look all that great at all.

Thanks Clipse

Yes you are right that is wireless broadband and not leased line
and it is not cheap for broadband. Sorry my mistake