So, Seacom is being launched next week and is hailed to bring down prices to the local telecoms community. With 1.4TBps of international bandwidth, are we going to see a huge reduction in ADSL prices, are we going to have free for all packages where one can download as much as they want or is our backhaul technology not capable of these throughputs. Is Seacom going to build their own network structure or make use of the existing Telecoms network. If they make use of existing infrastructure how are they going to bring down prices seeing it will be using Telkom for backhaul and with high interconnect fees, is a price reduction feasible?
I personally still feel that the days of cheap bandwidth is far off, with Telkom and its SAT3 sea cable, it still holds most of the aces. I predict we might see small reductions in prices or maybe higher caps been given to clients but nothing drastic.
I think 2011 will be the year an increase in data speeds and bandwidth will come to the forefront that is if the Eassy cable is launched on the due date of June 2010, which I doubt, seeing that it is a government initiative, but with the huge improvements in 4G technology speeds of 100mbps is already a reality.
Anyway, that is a bit of technology conundrum we are sitting with today, are we going to wait for the promise of LTE or are we going to use our existing technologies to keep with the pace of the rest of the world.
Next ttopic will be whether W-CDMA is a superior 3G technology or whether it is just a flash in the pan with handsets not being manufactured for this technology, that is me, over and out.
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Correction re: SEACOM cable system
SEACOM will be launching their cable on 23 July 2009 and the subsea cable system has a 1.28 terabits capacity.
Thanx for the the correction, it is launching this week, and I had terabytes per second and it should be terabits per second :)
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