WORLDWIDE MARKET RESEARCH REPORT - CISE

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EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920 Work Package: 6 Type of document: Report Date: 20.12.2007 File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0 Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 338 / 356 instruments), online services (Your Bill Online, SmartMoves, Telkom PDC) and invoice services (Understand Your Invoice). Another big firm, operating in South Africa, is Telesciences, which provide access solutions based on fibre optic equipment, VoIP and VoD (Video on Demand) services, WLAN solutions (using Aruba's tecnology), Integrated Access Devices (IAD), Customer Premise Gateways (CPG) and the very publicized “Triple Play” solution: this platforms allow for services delivery of voice, data and video services. A firm specialized in wireless communications is instead Wireless Online, located in Cape Town, South Africa. Wireless Online provides broadband internet without the need of a phone line. The starting packet foresees a bandwidth of 512 Kb and it is sold at the price of 169 Rand. The most expensive solution is sold at 999 Rand and it foresees 1 M of bandwidth. A complete and diffused, at least in South Africa, Internet Service Provider, is Snowball (www.snowball.co.za). It offers wireless connections beginning from 200 Rand (512 Kb of bandwidth), up to 650 Rand (2048 Kb of bandwidth). ADSL is offred at R 152 (384/128 Kbit/s), up to R 413 (4096/384 Kbit/s), on Telkom's lines. They are available also ADSL to consumption (1GB of data at R 70 and 10GB at R 490). The ADSL can also be furnished via satellite or via fiber optics, at the price of R 1539 p/m for 512 Kbit (R 3078 for 1024 Kbit) and R 2850 p/m for 512 Kbit (R 5700 for 1024 Kbit) respectively. Snowball offers also the traditional analog dial-up and the ISDN dial-up (64 Kbps) access at R 70 per month, while the ISDN dial-up at 128 Kbps is sold at R 140. A complementary to Telkom provider is instead Breedenet (www.breede.co.za). Breedenet Internet is the largest wireless internet service provider in the greater Breede River Valley. Breedenet has many clients situated outside of Telkom's service areas for ISDN and ADSL. The South African ISP offers a 1GB wireless connection at R295 per month and a 5GB wireless connection at R795 per month.
EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920 Work Package: 6 Type of document: Report Date: 20.12.2007 File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0 Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 339 / 356 Another important provider is Amobia (www.amobia.com). Amobia is a 100% South African owned company offering fast, cost effective access to a range of wireless services. Amobia offers, among he various alternatives, a 128 Kbps always-on wireless solution at R398 per month (R2499 for the installation) and a 1024 broadband internet access at R299 (2000 MB capped). Another South African ISP is Aerosat (www.aerosat.co.za), located in Port Elizabeth. It offers ADSL internet packages, dial-up traditional solution and SatDSL (always-on wireless broadband solution). The ADSL solution is sold at R275 for the 512 Kbit/s with 3 GB of data cap (R1699 for the uncapped one). Dial-up solution is offered at R50 per month (R180 for the 128 Kbit/s ISDN dial-up). The SatDSL solution is sold instead, at R295 for the 64 Kbit/s access and at R950 for the 512 Kbit/s access (both always-on). Also Aerosat, as the most greater part of the South Africans ISPs, furnish its services above the Telkom's network. At the moment, cheapest broadband is offered, in South Africa, by Sentech. [A27] Their MyWireless broadband products, make them the most affordable broadband provider in South Africa. On the low usage side, Sentech has cracked the R 100 barrier with its 150 MB offering for R 99 per month. Its 500 MB offering comes in at R 199, cheaper than similar services in the market while its 1 GB package is priced at R 299. There is also a 2 GB package available to consumers at R 449, a little more expensive than MTN’s R 399, but still competitively priced when compared with iBurst, Vodacom and CellC. One of the major barriers of entry to the wireless broadband market is the relatively high cost of the modems required to access the service. New modem prices will also be reduced from R 2600 to R 1500. As it regards the mobile telephony operators, the undisputed leaders are Vodacom (www.vodacom.co.za) and MTN (www.mtnsms.com). Vodacom, in particular, partly owned by the colossus Vodafone, operate in five countries on the continent. In all, it has to 10.32
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