{"id":1869,"date":"2012-01-18T22:21:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T22:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2012-01-19T06:02:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T06:02:48","slug":"making-money-from-uncapped-adsl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/1869\/making-money-from-uncapped-adsl\/","title":{"rendered":"Making money from uncapped ADSL"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Telkom<\/a>\u2019s high IPConnect costs and declining ADSL prices, the sustainability of uncapped ADSL services in South Africa has been questioned.\u00a0 Industry experts, however, argue that it is possible to create a sustainable uncapped business model \u2013 if you do it right.<\/p>\n

Two industry players, who both manage their own ADSL networks, shared their views on the business of uncapped ADSL products.<\/p>\n

We know uncapped ADSL is sustainable: MWEB CEO<\/strong><\/p>\n

The person who was behind South Africa\u2019s uncapped ADSL revolution, MWEB<\/a> CEO Rudi Jansen<\/a>, says that they know uncapped is sustainable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ISP business is all about volumes and usage ratios. We have seen a phenomenal uptake in ADSL subscribers and usage has increased. Growth in both of these drivers has ensured that uncapped is sustainable,\u201d said Jansen.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we buy more capacity, the unit price decreases – which, in turn, ensures that more bandwidth can be added to the network as demand grows.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jansen told MyBroadband BusinessTech that all MWEB\u2019s uncapped ADSL products are profitable.<\/p>\n

Manage uncapped properly: Neology CTO<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neology<\/a> CTO Roelf Diedericks<\/a> says that, while uncapped is difficult to manage, it is sustainable.<\/p>\n

\u201cRunning an uncapped network requires you to throw more geek skills at it than the average network operator has available,\u201d says Diedericks.<\/p>\n

Diedericks provides an interesting example:<\/p>\n

\u201cDid you know that it’s possible to download nearly every single popular torrent over peering capacity with MWEB only? This means that if you block your torrent client from all networks except MWEB’s IP space, you can download nearly everything you need with local-only bandwidth. That should tell you something about the power of uncapped, and settlement-free peering.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diedericks, however, highlights that uncapped products are not great profit drivers for ISPs right now. \u201cGenerally I think it allows them to create bigger networks, but not necessarily make lots of money,\u201d said Diedericks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ADSL Internet service providers explain that, while uncapped ADSL may be difficult to manage, you can create a sustainable business model around uncapped broadband if you do it right<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[79,26,38,413,411,41],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-adsl","tag-headline","tag-mweb","tag-neology","tag-roelf-diedericks","tag-rudi-jansen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/2383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}