Kilps' Blog » Telecoms http://www.kilps.za.net/blog thoughts. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:14:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Neotel doing something right? http://www.kilps.za.net/blog/2008/neotel-doing-something-right/ http://www.kilps.za.net/blog/2008/neotel-doing-something-right/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:31:43 +0000 kilps http://www.kilps.za.net/blog/?p=7 The failing of my blogging caught up with me all too quickly; no time to write. Nevertheless I’m back – hopefully with more regularity.

So Neotel has released their pricing for their first offering, and generally people don’t seem that happy. But for me it’s a little more simple:

  • Right now I pay Telkom R152 for 348 DSL line (+R100 odd for line rental)
  • I then pay WebAfrica R199 for a 3 Gig shaped account
  • The cap is too small

So I’m paying R451 for internet which isn’t really as good as I need it to be. If I was to upgrade to a 10GB cap I would be paying R742 (bearing in mind that all of this is shaped, and that it is probably cheaper with another ISP … but let’s not get too specific).

So now Neotel wants to charge me R600 for the 10GB option; which looks like a nice saving. Oh and for interest they would charge me R80 per extra GB as opposed to R70.

Then again Neotel is supposed to be unshaped, but that really isn’t an issue for me. And there is the 24 month contract issue … no chance.

So we are looking at a nice little R150 saving. After that build up. Right.

It’s something nice, but nothing revolutionary – I’ll let someone else test it.

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