If I'm not mistaken, Telkom's plans are to eventually replace 384kbps with 512kbps, and that with a 1mbps/1.5mbps linear service sometime after 8mbps has been 'enabled' throughout all of SA.
If one looks at how DSL accounts alone have changed over the past 6 months though, there seems to be a lot of internal discussions regarding package pricing etc, because I'm fairly sure that basic uncapped services could have technically been 'as cheap as they are right now' since the opening of Seacom in July last year. If you look at it, that's roughly around when the first spate of uncapped accounts began appearing anyway, and some of them were actually 'affordable', like (I think) Axxess with their 256kbps/384kbps uncapped that was 'full line speed' after hours.
The only way they could have afforded the kinds of bandwidth people were using up on that was if they weren't feeling it at all thanks to the Seacom infrastructure.
And yet, it took almost a year for us to begin getting accounts that are uncapped, but hard-limited in terms of speed?
Just doesn't seem right to me.
Anyway, Shadowfox, agreed, I'd also like to be able to make more use of legal online media that takes less time to get, without having to worry about a cap.