Comments on: SEACOM cable launch in Durban

By: jacques

jacques — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:12:41 +0000

the problem with south africans they want to get rich in 1month and the big companies are succeeding with that

By: jacques

jacques — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:08:20 +0000

im happy with the speeds im on vodacom hsdpa. how about something like 2gig for 189rand and 4gig for 289rand and etc

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:43:16 +0000

And what about neotel whats happening with them.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:31:52 +0000

Yo! Well i for one play online games. WoW is the better one of all. The speed we had within South Africa was never the problem..It has always been the speed From the WoW server to South Africa that made things not so cool when it comes to lag. From Telkom to my home although not true broadband it was fast enough to handle all the data i needed for a smooth gaming experience. I always had huge latency problems when the international connection or server at Telkom gave them trouble and they even gave me a Proxy server address i can use in case it does. This server fixed my lag when i used it. Now what i care about is the speed and reliability of the international connection and not really what we have in South Africa. So if i get this right the international data speed Telkom or Neotel receives might change a lot in the future although not true broadband i think it will increase drastically and make my internet gaming experience so much faster so i will be able to compete in some areas of the game where i need the better latency to move forward. Well just tell me if i’m dreaming a dream that won’t come true. If yes then Damn! I have been looking forward to nothing. What was the use of the seacom cable then?

By: kevin

kevin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:08:40 +0000

when will we be able to start using this net??? they keep showing but nothing dated???

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:28:44 +0000

We wont see much of a decrease in speak as Seacom will simply make their price slightly lower than SAIX (telkom) in order to maximize profits.

Do you really think they will lower the price unnecessarily?

By: Charl Norman » Seacom cable

Charl Norman » Seacom cable — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:41:19 +0000

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By: JBagley

JBagley — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:52:57 +0000

@alan, ADSL2 goes up to 8MB, once again, not true broadband and not sure if this is something that is being rolled out or how long it will ever take to be rolled out. Copper telephone cables can only handle so much – thus the reason I say we have an old infrastructure.

Yes, Seacom does increase the supply of international bandwidth, thus my reasoning for saying the price our our internet connections will decrease – its the speed however that our current networks cannot handle. That cable pumps data to us at 1.3 Terabytes a second, whereas our current Sat3 cable is dying a slow death at 130 gigabytes a second. The problem being our grid cannot handle that speed, so in essence our infrastructure is throttling the possibility of SA having true broadband speeds on par with the US, Europe and the East.

By: alan

alan — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:57:23 +0000

One other thing: the argument up to know was that high bandwidth costs are related to specifically high international bandwidth costs.

Doesn’t Seacom imply a vast increase of supply/availability of international bandwidth (and a drastic reduction in price)? The problem hasn’t been the local (old and existing) infrastructure – the issue has always been the cost of international bandwidth, and the (other) cable that Telkom has been monopolising..

By: alan

alan — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:44:58 +0000

“ADSL in SA will never get faster than 4MB/s” – isn’t Telkom looking at ADSL2 at this very moment? Or doesn’t that count as ADSL?