DST v B-Mobile
Who will win? US!
Let's have a look.
B-Mobile recently launched their new 3.5G network.
DST will launch theirs in May.
DST seem to have lost the race to launch.. but will they lose the battle to win?
Let's have a look.
B-Mobile's offer:
3.5mbits (locally guaranteed speed as usual)
running on Telbru's backbone.
Comes with a USB modem AND a Dell laptop
$45 per month + $40 cap = $85 per month
Conditions:
Either pay cash upfront $2k plus or get yourself into more debt with their partner bank. (You gotta be kidding me!)
DST:
3.5mbit (as Bmobile) running on their own backbones to the US.
Other things?
Coming soon.
Let's analyse and speculate.
With 3.5g.. both will offer equal local connection i.e. transfers between the Brunei network should be relatively adequate. However, we dont quite have enough content hosted locally that is used by most to take advantage of that. Instead, we browse and download from overseas hence 3mbits dont mean squat to most of us. For most times, we've all at some point or another felt Telbru's somewhat problematic connections abroad. So.. when a whole bunch of users now start getting bigger download speeds on B-mobile.. eating up bandwidth.. what do the rest of us get? More traffic.. more delays.. which is probably the reason why we've been having 'technical' difficulties lately. Espeed used to take up an avg of 512kbits per subscriber (assuming most of us can only afford the $98 per month) and B-mobile with their 3G then took up another 384 kbits per subscriber. Almost a 1-1 match sharing the same pipeline. Now.. with 3.5mbits.. espeed subscribers are 1/6th of the bandwidth behind.. and with more bandwidth, Bmobilers will now start downloading more. Adding more traffic to the same pipeline AND making it even slower for the Espeed subscribers. Uh oh.. now that doesnt sound good. Yes, we pay less.. and will get even less.
Now DST.. hmm.. own line out to the US.. up to now.. using the old GPRS.. 64 to 256kbits at most.. now is giving us access to their OWN private pipeline. Wow.. now that sounds good.. why? Because we're no longer dependent on Eslow.. sorry.. eblow... oops.. espeed... think about it... a whole new path to the US.. uncongested with espeed traffic OR bmobile traffic. To me.. that is already a plus in my books. I dont know what else they will offer with this.. but at the moment, as a high volume internet user, I'd rather wait and see than jump on the Bmobile bandwagon.. SOLELY for this. Of course, I think the bmobile package FORCING ppl to get a DELL (which would be of no use to a Mac user) AND making us pay for it upfront via cash or bank for their subscriptions and a DELL which we dont need.. WTF? You want us to switch over and you dont want to take any risks? Instead you MAKE us take the risk and burden us with more debt? (4 YR CONTRACT!!!!) Sorry... that's just plain stupid marketing.
Yeah.. i know.. i'm too straightforward.. I've been told.. and sorry.. that's the way I am. Many ppl dislike me because of this. Tough. These are the facts.
Let's have a look.
B-Mobile recently launched their new 3.5G network.
DST will launch theirs in May.
DST seem to have lost the race to launch.. but will they lose the battle to win?
Let's have a look.
B-Mobile's offer:
3.5mbits (locally guaranteed speed as usual)
running on Telbru's backbone.
Comes with a USB modem AND a Dell laptop
$45 per month + $40 cap = $85 per month
Conditions:
Either pay cash upfront $2k plus or get yourself into more debt with their partner bank. (You gotta be kidding me!)
DST:
3.5mbit (as Bmobile) running on their own backbones to the US.
Other things?
Coming soon.
Let's analyse and speculate.
With 3.5g.. both will offer equal local connection i.e. transfers between the Brunei network should be relatively adequate. However, we dont quite have enough content hosted locally that is used by most to take advantage of that. Instead, we browse and download from overseas hence 3mbits dont mean squat to most of us. For most times, we've all at some point or another felt Telbru's somewhat problematic connections abroad. So.. when a whole bunch of users now start getting bigger download speeds on B-mobile.. eating up bandwidth.. what do the rest of us get? More traffic.. more delays.. which is probably the reason why we've been having 'technical' difficulties lately. Espeed used to take up an avg of 512kbits per subscriber (assuming most of us can only afford the $98 per month) and B-mobile with their 3G then took up another 384 kbits per subscriber. Almost a 1-1 match sharing the same pipeline. Now.. with 3.5mbits.. espeed subscribers are 1/6th of the bandwidth behind.. and with more bandwidth, Bmobilers will now start downloading more. Adding more traffic to the same pipeline AND making it even slower for the Espeed subscribers. Uh oh.. now that doesnt sound good. Yes, we pay less.. and will get even less.
Now DST.. hmm.. own line out to the US.. up to now.. using the old GPRS.. 64 to 256kbits at most.. now is giving us access to their OWN private pipeline. Wow.. now that sounds good.. why? Because we're no longer dependent on Eslow.. sorry.. eblow... oops.. espeed... think about it... a whole new path to the US.. uncongested with espeed traffic OR bmobile traffic. To me.. that is already a plus in my books. I dont know what else they will offer with this.. but at the moment, as a high volume internet user, I'd rather wait and see than jump on the Bmobile bandwagon.. SOLELY for this. Of course, I think the bmobile package FORCING ppl to get a DELL (which would be of no use to a Mac user) AND making us pay for it upfront via cash or bank for their subscriptions and a DELL which we dont need.. WTF? You want us to switch over and you dont want to take any risks? Instead you MAKE us take the risk and burden us with more debt? (4 YR CONTRACT!!!!) Sorry... that's just plain stupid marketing.
Yeah.. i know.. i'm too straightforward.. I've been told.. and sorry.. that's the way I am. Many ppl dislike me because of this. Tough. These are the facts.
posted by DC at
4/02/2008 10:14:00 pm
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