Telkom to drop ADSL pricing.

[Gamos]

A good start, but still lots of improvement to be made. If the rumours, that the 3Gb cap will include local traffic, pans out - this will be no more than a way to drop price to increase ISP cost.

http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=339

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Telkom today delivered on its promise to reduce ADSL and data prices even further, with the entry-level high-speed Internet access product down to R270 per month.

Prices for International Private Leased Circuits (IPLCs) via the submarine cable and satellite will be reduced by 28%, having decreased by 23% during 2004.

These price reductions will be implemented on 1 August 2005. They form part of Telkom’s broadband strategy to manage its ADSL and data costs down to ensure that access barriers to speedy Internet services are lowered, and that the Company responds aggressively to competition on the international traffic front.

Telkom has not increased its ADSL prices since it launched the ADSL service in 2002. On the contrary, the company lowered ADSL prices by 12% in March this year when it reached a 50 000 customer mark, lifting the ADSL subscriber base to a record 67 000 to date.

In pursuit of its objective to manage prices down and promote widespread Internet access, Telkom launched the HomeDSL 192 low-level broadband solution for residential customers at R329 in March this year.

This ADSL product offering will now cost 18% less at R270 per month, allowing customers to surf the Internet and download content faster at t this affordable and flat monthly rate.

HomeDSL 384, Telkom’s middle-level broadband solution for those residential customers on the faster Internet lane, will be reduced from R449 to R359 a month.

The HomeDSL 512 and BusinessDSL 512 super-fast ADSL products - currently priced R599 and R699 per month respectively - will be reduced to R477 a month.

“Reducing the cost of all our ADSL products will pave the way for our existing customers to migrate to more speedy Internet access options. Equally, this will encourage those who have not yet entered the high-speed Internet space to take advantage of our low-access, yet high-speed HomeDSL 192 broadband solution,” said Telkom’s Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Nombulelo Moholi.

She said Telkom was mindful of the fact that the price decrease announcement would stimulate demand for the ADSL service, imploring new applicants to bear with the field operations team as they work flat out to improve installation levels.

The good news though is that Telkom’s ADSL Self-Install trials are nearing completion and would go a long way to assisting customers set up their broadband ADSL connections fast.

She added that Telkom’s managed reduction of data and ADSL tariffs was one of the ways the company was contributing to reducing the cost of doing business in South Africa.

[Odyssey]

For now, this is good news.

[<A>BioGizzard]

i just hope that they don't learn any tricks from the petrol price drop system we have

drop some and increase it by double the dropped amount a few months later

[LeG@cY]

Pfffffffft when that happens I'll cancel my DSL.

Oh did I tell you guys, rofl they are going to put mine in 15th of June. After 5 months of struggling. Can you believe that ???!?!??!! I ordered my DSL @ the end of January 2005

OMG :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

[<A>BioGizzard]

well good luck to ya man

i'll congratulate u when u make ur first post from it

[VirtualForce]

I think they just messing with you, come June 15th they gonna giggle themselves into a come as you anxiously await their arrival! :P

[Gamos]

Well, apparently the 3Gig cap will include local traffic too, come Aug1st. So what you save in rental, you just make up with ISP accounts.

[crash]

The local traffic in your cap is gonna blow a couple of the uncapped providers away I think. The guys that run an end point, or rent an endpoint should be cool.

[GunJitsu]

Legacy, just keep pressure on them, when they told me they had to order a part from overseas I phoned the lady that has to order the part to ask her when it will arrive. Or get the number for your local exchange and ask them when it will be installed and the reason for the delay.

[Macera]

Eish, that will suck!

[Ragnarok]

a record 67 000 rolf well done noobs

[mudd@]

Yo Legacy,

I placed my order for my new house about two months ago - I moved in yesterday - they installed yesterday.

The good news - adsl is working fine - the bad news - i cant dial out cause on their system the call is still open - weird - said i must wait till today - will see what happens.

At least Im online.

[Cataphract]

a record 67 000

And on any given night a maximum of 20 people play UT online, not all of them on ADSL either. That constitutes 66'980 wasted ADSL lines :(

[DawEEd]

Remeber that 67000, is ppl subscribed, of them no more than 50000 actually have their adsl installed, the rest of us are just waiting suckers, like me and legacy.

[VirtualForce]

LOL @ DawEEd!
Don't forget the 10329 with connection problems :P

[sneaky]

Remeber that 67000, is ppl subscribed, of them no more than 50000 actually have their adsl installed, the rest of us are just waiting suckers, like me and legacy.

or per acount and not per person.

[camel]

Remeber that 67000, is ppl subscribed, of them no more than 50000 actually have their adsl installed, the rest of us are just waiting suckers, like me and legacy.

u guys will remember about 2 months ago i posted saying i spent an hour on the phone and got nothing out of it, i followed it up with a very insulting but well worded e-mail to them.

they called me back, and sorted everything out, as in, on 3rd of may i ordered my adsl, on 21st may 7pm (saturday) it was installed ( i have a crap ping, hop 2 is 40ms), they even called me to ask me when to disconnect my old adsl, and i forgot to call them on the day, but they didnt. so dont call them, e-mail them.

my latency issue is in the exchange and the techie dealing with it cant even spell "tracert", and doesnt understand the term "HOP", so i'm almost ready to write another tactfull e-mail.

[<A>BioGizzard]

as far as i know they changed all the exchanges back from 2048/512 to 640/384 fast path....well that's what they told me when i complained about it

[camel]

i dont care what they did, on adsl i refuse to have an isdn ping, and i have made that clear to them.

[<A>BioGizzard]

according to the dsl specialist they sent to my house sub 50 ping is acceptable and they wount do any thing to get lower though i had weird jumps from 150 to 500 ms
and it would last an hour at a time so that dude told them to check the atm and they found a problem with it so my ping is constant again @ 32ms

[Scrye]

Jesus I almost passed out reading that sentence

[hai2u]

" to check the atm "

Do you even know what ATM is? Or are you talking about your bank or something... They probably laughed when you hung up the phone....

[DawEEd]

I seriously doubt they laughed... they most probably still trying to work it out for themselves. So many of them call center ppl can't even read what's on the screen in front of them. I have to got through at least 2 ppl at their call centers before I can find some1 who can say more than "I don't no"

[~MA~[peterpan]]

" to check the atm "

Do you even know what ATM is? Or are you talking about your bank or something... They probably laughed when you hung up the phone....


...so that dude told them to check the atm...


I dont think bio said that.......

[<A>BioGizzard]

look man i dont care what an atm is. i bearly know how dsl works. thats is what the dsl guy told me, so that is what i repeated...all i care about is it works again

p.s sorry scrye i was in a hurry, but at least now u know ur lungs can still hold out..
so there is no need to run around the block to test it :P

[sneaky]

Hmmmmm or those pesky lamenites they always seem to stuffing up the dsl network.

[Ragnarok]

ATM is infact a connection oriented switching technology, its common for phone companies to use ATM to transfer data over the internet

[sAm]

This is a bit of the topic...

i might wanna get dsl but the future complete local cap is holding me back

when gaming with dsl, how much on average do u upload n download in an hour?

[DJRob]

I think Telkom should place in the business stratedgy they have over sees - one price and you get both the line and the account. UK has 1MB/s connections going around 30 pounds per month - that's like just over R300 - and its uncapped. Now that's a connection I want in SA!

[-=BeLgaRiOn=-]

Good news, this is.

[VirtualForce]

Insane, u are. :P

[Cataphract]

Any idea when we'll be able to get 1mb lines?

[Scrye]

Good news, this is.

Oh for the love of... Give us a break!

[DJRob]

Any idea when we'll be able to get 1mb lines?

Maybe when Telkom don't have the market control of ADSL lines! :mad: They would have to first upgrade their exchanges, international bandwidth, etc etc... what's the rush when you are the only provider of a service like this :pissed:

[-=BeLgaRiOn=-]

Oh for the love of... Give us a break!

For the whole community, you speak?

[sneaky]

Pretty much, it was fun but now its done.

OMG Im a poet and I didnt even know it!

[<A>BioGizzard]

" to check the atm "

Do you even know what ATM is? Or are you talking about your bank or something... They probably laughed when you hung up the phone....i phoned them and asked

apparently ATM = Asimetric"spelling" Transfer Mode/Module, the line was a bit bad couldn't here the last one so clear

wich is the way they transfer the data through the main pipe or somthing like that....if u can tell me what that is it be great, cause i don't quite know that either

[~MA~[peterpan]]

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/ATM.html

:)

[<A>BioGizzard]

thx

[]H[ellboy]

guys from your house to the exchange its already 8mb capable depending on the distance of course

[Macera]

This is a bit of the topic...

i might wanna get dsl but the future complete local cap is holding me back

when gaming with dsl, how much on average do u upload n download in an hour?

With my bandwith proggie i use, i get about 10.8 mb per hour flowing at a constand 2kb up and 2 kb down

[sAm]

Thanks mac 8)

[hai2u]

H[ellboy']guys from your house to the exchange its already 8mb capable depending on the distance of course

6mb on Telkom's network.

[sneaky]

Might as well be 1 000 000 000mb capable.

[Peon]

You know all this helps fellas like Daweed, legsee and me buggerall.


/makes hoola hoop dance while frothing at the mouth

[hai2u]

are you on crack?

[Peon]

Nah, its just when you have to restart a laptop 5 times to download a 5 mb file because the Vodacom gprs/3g dialer keeps crashing and TOTALLY owning your computer, it gets to you.


KNow wHat i MEAn ???

[hai2u]

not really, I dont use crap services like that :P

[Peon]

Well its this or nothing at all. And btw, Vodacom give this little aerial free of charge but dont be fooled, no no. When you plug it into the data card it believes in its heart that it can download at 20 kb/s when its maximum throughput is 5 kb/s. You do the math what happens next!

pffft!

/me very bitchy and itchy right now