On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Mark Tinka <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 08 April 2009 08:04:34 pm Rob Gipman wrote: > >> I'm not to sure about those big cost reductions. To much >> is still in the hand of global players and the current >> sat providers plus African governments that require a cut >> to play. > > True price cuts will come as more cables are lit. With 3 > cables on the east coast scheduled to come online within the > next 2yrs, it's a good start.
Seems so...Here is some good news from Balancing Act Africa reporting on a satcon in SA a few days ago. <quote> Some snapshots of the exchanges at the conference give some idea of the shifting of the tectonic plates: * It’s pricing, stupid: Brian Herlihy, CEO of Seacom spoke about offering prices of between US$50-300 an mbps per month and whilst IRUs might add as much as 20% in interest payments, this is still much sunnier that the US$4-6,000 per mbps currently being charged for satellite. Better still, Seacom is promising this price wherever the capacity lands, whether in a coastal country or one inland. Paul Edwards, Chair of Nigeria’s largest CDMA operator Starcomms said he had been offered US$100 per mbps on one of the west coast fibres. In addition, O3B’s pricing is pitched fairly close to these numbers. The traditional satellite operators are stuck: they either have to take what’s left over or come up with something innovative technically which will improve their price offer. If they do, then it runs the risk of cannibalising existing revenues. (According to a report in an international industry paper, 03B has been in discussions with both SES New Skies and Intelsat. Read that how you will. Who’s courting who?)" </quote> So it sounds like small ISPs CAN buy from SEACOM, and pick it up inland!! w00t! -- Cheers, McTim _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
