Telkom 40Mbps ADSL speed increase coming

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Telkom 40Mbps ADSL upgrades coming

Telkom says that it will increase entry level ADSL speed to 2Mbps by 2015; top speeds will increase to 40Mbps

[Yuu]

In Simon Bird's voice "Brilliant"

/the inbetweeners are awesome

[entrepr]

As a customer, I'm overjoyed - it can't happen too quickly and is way overdue

Thinking financially - why would I customer offer free upgrades : far better to entice customers up to the next value level with a small incremental charge which they can't resist and get people to bump up voluntarily and push up arpu. That way you also don't have to file a price increase as customers do it for you.

I think Telkom needs a shrewd product management team to get these things right.

[Garyvdh]

Take a good look at the note at the bottom of the page....

* Only applies to 1% of those who have ADSL.

[ColinR]

2015: how underwhelming.

[stroebs]

Will Telkom still be solvent by 2015!? What with all of the news about Telkom's financial disaster waiting to happen, I can only wonder how long they will remain as our telecoms operator for.

[werries2]

Will Telkom still be solvent by 2015!? What with all of the news about Telkom's financial disaster waiting to happen, I can only wonder how long they will remain as our telecoms operator for.

Pray that they do, else we will most likely be in the dark ages for some years...

[Roadrunner]

Excuse my language, but **** you Telkom.

Your empty promises of 10Mbs from 2010 still remains just that.

http://www.techcentral.co.za/telkom-...ed-adsl/14548/

Don't know why anyone still take these jokers seriously. They are only building these castles in the sky to keep the investors happy. If pressured into actually showing something, they will upgrade one exchange in Waterkloof and declare the project a success.

[malier]

Take a good look at the note at the bottom of the page....

* Only applies to 1% of those who have ADSL.

Huh ???

[Garyvdh]

Huh ???

It's sarcasm.... Telkom rolled out 10 mbps upgrades a few years back, but the percentage of those ADSL customers who actually have 10 mbps is in the single digits.

[Grubscrew]

huh 2015?

[malier]

It's sarcasm.... Telkom rolled out 10 mbps upgrades a few years back, but the percentage of those ADSL customers who actually have 10 mbps is in the single digits.

If this wasn't so close to the truth it might actually be funny

[boswald]

Empty promises are worth absolutely nothing. I am still stuck on 4mb with no upgrade to anything in the forseen future.

____ you telkom (enter your own choice of word in the blank)

[abandonallhope]

Again : If broadband could run over promises/plans/rumours, telkom would probably have the best infrastructure on the planet.

Time to stop talking telkom.

[Bern]

Why shout empty promises? By then their entire Next Generation Network will be complete, there will be 3700 MSANs down and for the older exchanges 2Mbps is not normally an issue, higher speeds at long distances yes, but not 2Mbps. The NGN basically sees 10Gbps+ fibre to all the exchanges, so backhaul is no longer an issue, therefore in terms of cost to them 384kbps vs 2Mbps is not really such an issue, but it makes a big difference on user experience.

What is sad is due to many bad decisions, the most recent being 8ta, this is not already rolled out.

One great thing is it is a big F-you to the DoC terms for "broadband" - basically Telkom are going with 2Mbps as the minimum standard