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EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920<br />

Work Package: 6<br />

Type of document: Report<br />

Date: 20.12.2007<br />

File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0<br />

Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 338 / 356<br />

instruments), online services (Your Bill Online, SmartMoves, Telkom PDC) and invoice<br />

services (Understand Your Invoice).<br />

Another big firm, operating in South Africa, is Telesciences, which provide access solutions<br />

based on fibre optic equipment, VoIP and VoD (Video on Demand) services, WLAN solutions<br />

(using Aruba's tecnology), Integrated Access Devices (IAD), Customer Premise Gateways<br />

(CPG) and the very publicized “Triple Play” solution: this platforms allow for services delivery<br />

of voice, data and video services.<br />

A firm specialized in wireless communications is instead Wireless Online, located in Cape<br />

Town, South Africa. Wireless Online provides broadband internet without the need of a<br />

phone line. The starting packet foresees a bandwidth of 512 Kb and it is sold at the price of<br />

169 Rand. The most expensive solution is sold at 999 Rand and it foresees 1 M of<br />

bandwidth.<br />

A complete and diffused, at least in South Africa, Internet Service Provider, is Snowball<br />

(www.snowball.co.za). It offers wireless connections beginning from 200 Rand (512 Kb of<br />

bandwidth), up to 650 Rand (2048 Kb of bandwidth). ADSL is offred at R 152 (384/128<br />

Kbit/s), up to R 413 (4096/384 Kbit/s), on Telkom's lines. They are available also ADSL to<br />

consumption (1GB of data at R 70 and 10GB at R 490). The ADSL can also be furnished via<br />

satellite or via fiber optics, at the price of R 1539 p/m for 512 Kbit (R 3078 for 1024 Kbit) and<br />

R 2850 p/m for 512 Kbit (R 5700 for 1024 Kbit) respectively. Snowball offers also the<br />

traditional analog dial-up and the ISDN dial-up (64 Kbps) access at R 70 per month, while<br />

the ISDN dial-up at 128 Kbps is sold at R 140.<br />

A complementary to Telkom provider is instead Breedenet (www.breede.co.za). Breedenet<br />

Internet is the largest wireless internet service provider in the greater Breede River Valley.<br />

Breedenet has many clients situated outside of Telkom's service areas for ISDN and ADSL.<br />

The South African ISP offers a 1GB wireless connection at R295 per month and a 5GB<br />

wireless connection at R795 per month.

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