Vodacom’s HSDPA here in April

Are they planning to decrease per Gig cost - otherwise it's futile exercise, for at least most of us.
 
Cool. Hopefully one day the per Gb costs will come down so that the service will become feasible for us high bandwidth users.
 
Irony is, i have a Vodacom 3G contract, and i'm sitting on MTN GPRS ! All this because it's cheaper (due to prepaid bundling system) . So basically boils down to, HSDPA probably will have no point [not for me anyway] as i would require
(a) a new R2500+ datacard [not a chance in hell i'm buying a new card now, my 3G contract is only a year old]
(b) cheaper rates, i mean i cringe everytime i have to download a movie or anything related to "streamed content" ...maybe some low bandwidth gaming
might work who knows.
 
I'm sure they're still waiting for some external forces to tell them their service is expensive. Untill then it's "make hay while it's still shining!"
 
The pricing for HSDPA will initially be the same as the current 3G data rates, but Uys pointed out that they will be reviewing the pricing and that users can expect to pay lower rates for data in future.
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We really need a website dedicated to lame-assed comments like this from players in SA's telecoms industry.
 
I cant believe that Vodacom is launching their HSDPA but there isnt even proper 3G in all the metros.
 
Farquaon said:
I cant believe that Vodacom is launching their HSDPA but there isnt even proper 3G in all the metros.
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Agree entirely ! The service is p*ss poor tp begin with.
 
Vice said:
I'm sure they're still waiting for some external forces to tell them their service is expensive. Untill then it's "make hay while it's still shining!"
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compared to other similar services its not expensive. and they are expanding very fast on the 3g coverage so calm down and realise just how much it cost to put 3g in the entire country, imagine having to put a 500k 3g unit in Parys then you have 2 people connecting to it? doesnt seem like a priority does it?
 
Farquaon said:
I cant believe that Vodacom is launching their HSDPA but there isnt even proper 3G in all the metros.
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how well does iburst and mtn and sentech cover the country? at least with vodacom (and mtn i prresume) when you are outside the 3g area, you still have gprs, with iburst, you stand behind a big tree and "oh dear no signal"
 
diabolus said:
(a) a new R2500+ datacard [not a chance in hell i'm buying a new card now, my 3G contract is only a year old]
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quite honestly vodacom should upgrade every 3g data card free of charge as they should've launched the 3g with HSDPA in the first place even if they dont provide HSDPA yet!
 
ic said:
Huh? one of the reasons why HSDPA didn't get launched in December [2005] was that HSDPA data cards were not yet commercially available [i.e. in large quantities], when Vodacom launched 3G in December 2004, there were no HSDPA cards being manufactured for commercial use.
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well boo hoo :)

Thanks for that, I have now had some coffee, and I still don't see how "launched with" equates to "starting at" - maybe it is, but I wanted clarification!
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launched with... adsl launched with 512k, now you get 192k, 384k,512k oh.. and a Faster 1024k and i think most people are hopeing for 2048k. "launched" does not mean "and will never change" :cool:


but then i may be wrong and have no clue as to what the dif is i dont see why anybody would complain about a new service, nobody FORCES you to take it.
 
entrepr said:
The hsdpa cards that are commercially available all seem to offer 384 kbps. It sounds like a technical limitation on the network side. Let's wait and see what MTN offers.
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my adsl modem supports a much higher upload than 256k, yet telkom only gives 256k. why not complain about that also? and the fact that my car's tyres only makes contact with like 5% of its surface with the road at any given time, but i still have to pay for the whole tyre, and its not even solid!!
 
ic said:
To clarify [again], I was not complaining, I was seeking clarification.

The current 3G data cards from Option & Novatel, have a hardware capability upload speed limit of 64kbits/s, which is very limiting depending on what one is trying to use the connection for, I was under the impression [perhaps incorectly - memory a bit fuzzy since the HSDPA demo I attended at Vodaworld - July 2005] that the HSDPA data cards would support a maximum upload speed of 384kbits/s, and that the etwork would allow for this. Now if the data cards have a hardware-imposed upload speed limit of 128kbits/s then that's something outside of Vodacom's control, but if the HSDPA data cards support 384kbits/s, and Vodacom is [for stability or some other reason(s)] limiting the upload speed to 128kbits/s, then I would still like to know either way...

I hope that clarifies why I feel I need clarification...
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word of the day: "clarification" :)

well i'm not sure on that but as far as i could find out the card support 384, but vodacom (for now) is limiting it to 128, most probably for stability. but 128k is okay, depending as you say on what you use it for.
 
albert123 said:
how well does iburst and mtn and sentech cover the country? at least with vodacom (and mtn i prresume) when you are outside the 3g area, you still have gprs, with iburst, you stand behind a big tree and "oh dear no signal"
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You can see from the specs that the new data cards support Edge as well so there's a good chance you can still download nicely while hugging your tree
 
entrepr said:
You can see from the specs that the new data cards support Edge as well so there's a good chance you can still download nicely while hugging your tree
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exactly, so no offense but the new cards will by far put vodacom ahead of the other wireless providers, maby not ahead of adsl, but then my adsl modem's cable cant get to the tree in my garden :D

i do however have the believe that telkom will launch 2048k adsl within a month or two..
 
The pricing for HSDPA will initially be the same as the current 3G data rates, but Uys pointed out that they will be reviewing the pricing and that users can expect to pay lower rates for data in future.
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Nothing less than collusion with Telkom; It's simple Vodacom do not want to engage in a price war with their shareholder! :mad:

When will the Mbeki actually deliver on his media promises?; if a minister or official does not deliver then they should be dismissed. Why does Ivy get the royal treatment? :mad:
 
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