Bye Neotel - Hello Telkom WiMAX

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I finally got my Telkom Wimax Installed yesterday, and OMW its awesome.

35ms ping to local gaming servers.
65kb/s (for 512k)
freedom to use my own uncapped ISP
R220 (Line Rental) + 299 (ISP) = R519 pm

Compared to my Neotel Prime (un)Limited.
300ms to local servers (minimum ping)
3-4kb/s (at the best of times)
no freedom, isp wise
R999 pm

Sure I got connected the same day with Neotel, but they signed me up as full coverage (according to their system) got to my place and had barely any coverage (1bar). It is this that put me off, they sounded so confident in their product without testing my location for coverage. But paid R999 for a connection as slow as dial up.

Telkom came out to do some tests and confirmed i was propperly covered for Wimax, and then installed it. (sure it took 20 days) but rather do something propperly. Paying R500 odd, for an uncapped solution that is a million times faster than Neotel's 3kb/s.

Cheers Neotel, thanks for stealing money from me without reimbursing me for your mistakes, hope the wheel turns and u lose another couple billion rand next year.
 
Sounds interesting, how did you get out of you Neotel contract? They want me to pay the remainder of the device fee =R900 :-(
 
freemilo said:
Sounds interesting, how did you get out of you Neotel contract? They want me to pay the remainder of the device fee =R900 :-(
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Eish bru, that my friend is the hardest part, it was laywers, me threatening them with ICASA etc.....good luck with that.

moklet said:
Are they doing wimax installations again from telkom ? I thought they put a freeze on that ?
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yup seems like they do, its not their highest priority by the way, they actually losing money with WiMAX in the short run, wimax equipment is costing them R8000 per customer, and the rental is only R240 pm, so basically for 36months they make nothing.
 
moklet said:
Are they doing wimax installations again from telkom ? I thought they put a freeze on that ?
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Yes, would like to know how you got a Telkom Wimax connection. I've tried but with no avail - the answer everywhere is just "we don't do WiMax installations anymore".
 
We have our WiMax offering.
Just need to enquire first if you are in coverage area. (Line of sight dependant)

Hugo
 
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