100Mbps Telkom FTTH project

He added that they think a financially viable business model for FTTH is possible, but only if data consumption increases.
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Why would it only be financially viable if data consumption increases ? They gonna bill a 100mbps line per GB ? Please tell me I'm missing something.

So MickeyD your numbers are off once again... 124 000 > 110 000 :p

Anyway, be that as it may, how many of those 124k ports are actually active ? Where are these people hiding out ? I don't see reports of awesome new VDSL on mybb ?
 
"enormous speeds" on a 100Mbps fibre that's kinda the point. It would only be strange if the where experiencing speeds exceeding the fiber bandwidth now that would be news worthy.

If I paying for a 100Mbps I would hope to get around 100Mbps... the enormous is probably the price tag. :D
 
Oh F OFF telkom

And here im still on a 2mb exchange and you spout this drivel.
 
How is data consumption supposed to increase if speeds don't increase? Circular argument much?
 
Let's hope this takes off and isn't exorbitantly priced. Here's to hoping!
 
This article's information seems false or sketchy at best.

I highly doubt any of this is true.

Coming from the CEO, this is just a bunch of lies and marketing hype.
 
abandonallhope said:
Why would it only be financially viable if data consumption increases ? They gonna bill a 100mbps line per GB ? Please tell me I'm missing something.
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That's exactly the connection I made. Basically people need to be willing to use a lot of data and pay current per-GB prices?

I'm happy to help any ISP blow through Terrabytes of (legal) traffic per month, I'm just not keen to pay our current per-GB prices for providing them with my valuable services :P
 
You will get a 100mbps line with a 1GB cap....

Also who cares??? Telkom can't even provide 4mbps stable connections in South Africa,

Yes I would love a 100mbps connection, Telkom might have a whole 2 people by 2020 connected to 100mbps...... :whistle:
 
Hummercellc said:
You will get a 100mbps line with a 1GB cap....

Also who cares??? Telkom can't even provide 4mbps stable connections in South Africa,

Yes I would love a 100mbps connection, Telkom might have a whole 2 people by 2020 connected to 100mbps...... :whistle:
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+1

Makes me angry when Telkom gets free marketing like this! :mad:
 
Will be pointless if offered to people that can't afford the offer ! I'm stuck on a max 4mbps exchange wanting to go higher. Wonder if fibre to home is coming to me ? Did see lots of Telkom activity in my estate with construction and nice silver coloured concrete slabs with some pipes sticking out of the ground. Also lots of orange sheath being measured in and around these latest constructions ! Can only hope !
 
Hummercellc said:
Yes I would love a 100mbps connection, Telkom might have a whole 2 people by 2020 connected to 100mbps...... :whistle:
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Interesting that they didn't mention Durban in the article. I have a friend who's had the fibre installed this week and the equipment is due Monday - The complex he stays in is part of the trial and they didn't charge him any installation costs!
 
You wan't data consumption to increase to make higher speeds possible. Well get talking to Hulu and Netflix and you can bundle it to your line, and voila, your data usage will increase massively. Telkom- making the simple complicated.
 
Moaners !

WHAT is wrong with everyone ?
When Telkom bump your speeds up again FOR FREE ( will be happening again soon )
I suppose you will ALL complain again and say the FREE 4Mb you got is NOT good enough and you NEED 10Mb ?
Bunch of useless moaners.

NOW
Telkom -- please come and trial 100Mb at MY complex :D
 
for free?

lol yeah they clearly got u suckered. We are paying WAYYYY more than we should anyway, so these "free" upgrades arent so free
 
This trial was huge, you notice how the article is worded:

Five sites were identified and, at March 2013, Telkom delivered the first 100Mbps service to a business customer and residential customer.
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Five sites were identified but only one business customer and one residential customer have actually got the service - most likely some Telkom office and it's manager.
 
Will ruin dstv.

No ugly satellite that struggled in bad weather - online options that are cheaper, on demand, and provide more.
 
What the??? Haven't even seen 20/40Mbps let alone 10Mbps n nou 100Mbps talk from Telkom.:confused: Guess in 200 yrs in my area.:(
 
Strange that we never see speedtest results from people on these trials.

Meanwhile in the real world, a bunch of redneck Brits rolled up their sleeves and upgraded their own dial-up access to 1Gb/s fiber for which they pay R470/month.

http://b4rn.org.uk/services
 
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