ADSL ISPs drop prices in fight for customers

It is a pity that the small ADSL ISPs need to cut their own necks just to compete with that fu ching piece of sh it telscum :mad:
 
I would like to see the break down of costs now.. rental vs ISP cost...

used to be about a 60/40 split
 
Telkom locks people into their expensive bandwidth offerings bybeing administrative deficient.

I sold a friend on the idea of getting cheaper bandwidth - until he tried to cancel his Telkom prolog or whatever - it is close to impossible.

If the smaller ISP's want to grow, they should offer a guaranteed "we will cancel Telkom's ADSL bandwidth as well for you" kind of service.
 
I can understand Mweb charging higher than most other ISPs as they have all the "value added services" but what gives TelkomInternet the right to charge so much......

Typical! :mad:

I wonder if they will ever drop their prices
 
What happened to the steaming heap that icasa fed us about local being uncapped ? If that is the case , then why do we have to buy local b/w ? Even a 10 gig local then is against the icasa ruling , is it not ? I am i missing something completely here ? Just want to know .
 
Kabal said:
What happened to the steaming heap that icasa fed us about local being uncapped ? If that is the case , then why do we have to buy local b/w ? Even a 10 gig local then is against the icasa ruling , is it not ? I am i missing something completely here ? Just want to know .
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Its not in place...
 
Why is line rental excluded? Sound very much like airline prices: only R400 to fly return between Jhb and Cape Town, until you add the R800 in "extra charges" such as taxes, fuel levies, VAT, etc. Airlines have now been given a clear directive that they should abolish this practice.

ISPs should show the total cost, or add a byline stating the additional Telkom costs, to have ADSL. It does not help if they advertise a price of R199, but then one has to pay an additional R400 or so for the "addtional costs" or "extra charges". But I guess this is what all the debate is about.
 
Well it is a separate cost, although you have to pay both, the line rental isnt provided by the ISP, its not their business.

But most ISP's do show you the line rental, but it would be harder to figure out how much you are being charged by an ISP for the bandwidth if they added in the line rental, doing comparisons would be very hard.

And of course the main thing, which line rental do you add? They arent going to advertise one of their products three times just because theres 3 different lines you could use it with.

As for the article, well I think we know by now that there is a line rental, this was written by RPM right, so its mostly for a tech savvy audience. But he probably should have included it just in case.
 
Why are we looking at ISP's who are charging us for local bandwidth, and shape all our traffic?

It is suppose to be against the law according to ICASA...
 
Cooperation a better way to compete ?

Actually more a question as a remark, when an X amount of ISP's
or for argument sake all ISP's compete over price, are there no
possibilities for them to do together allowing costsavings and do
combined promotion and marketing, the problem is when you day in
day out take TELKOM as the benchmark it could hinder all sort of
other revenue increasing creations.
I had the other day alady from Telkom at te phone, and she suggested me to
extend my contract with 24 months and by doing so i would receive
a WIFI modem,which i have already from them,she had nothing else to offer.

That sort of companies are the best ones to compete with
 
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