Uncovering Telkom's bandwidth markup

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<b><u>AUSTRALIA</b></u>

<b>SPEED:</b> 512/128
<b>LIMIT:</b> 32GB
<b>COSTS:</b> R347.60/mo
<b>EXTRA:</b> Static IP included free

<b>SPEED:</b> 1500/256
<b>LIMIT:</b> 32GB
<b>COSTS:</b> R589.60/mo
<b>EXTRA:</b> Static IP included free

Affordable in anyone's opinion and if my Geography wasn't on drugs I'd be correct in stating that Oz is further south than SA. We are paying 10.5 times as much as our mates across the way. Telkom's excuse all along has been "We is faar fromme rest of de world dat are whaai bendwidf am so expensif".

Just disproved that now didnt we. Oh, and only downlaod counts toward the cap, which is quite fair IMO.

<font color="navy"><font size="1"><b>Where others have progress, we have Telkom.</b>
Hellkom website - www.hellkom.co.za</font id="size1"></font id="navy">
 
let's crunch some numbers - 3gb / at say R800 pm = 26c per MB - - 32gb / R347 pm = 0.10c/mb
 
What i wouldnt give to be in a place where the country doesnt try to rip you off.

Fantasy is what people want, reality is what they need.
 
Hmm, okay, that looks pretty good. But 128 or even 256 up is much less than what I get on ADSL, and I've exceeded 32GB this month (but I have a proxy which makes int'l browsing possible), partly because we get 512 up (as it seems we do).

What happens when you exceed 32GB on those packages?

1500 down would be nice though.
 
So <i>me</i> you've been downloading almost a gig a day for a month? BTW ADSL is 256 up, 512 down... after the ozzies hit their cap their speeds are reduced to 56K

<font color="navy"><font size="1"><b>Where others have progress, we have Telkom.</b>
Hellkom website - www.hellkom.co.za</font id="size1"></font id="navy">
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by MaD</i>
<br />"We is faar fromme rest of de world dat are whaai bendwidf am so expensif".
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ROFL

Eish, ant wi closa to america? noo, the weld is rawnd...

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By the way, on that same site buying extra bandwidth is:

AU$4 for 1GB..... R17 per GB!

<font color="navy"><font size="1"><b>Where others have progress, we have Telkom.</b>
Hellkom website - www.hellkom.co.za</font id="size1"></font id="navy">
 
Presumably this is unshaped.
So the maths of OZ v Telkom is:

Telkom. 4 into 32 is 8 x R870odd for the unshaped bandwith = R6960+Line Rental R680 = (drum roll) R7640
Oz = R347. With a static ip. Or R589

Cost per GB - Telkom R238
Oz cost per GB - R10.85 or for 1500 downpipe R18
 
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