50 000 Adsl Users: Telkom Sec Filing

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From US SEC Filing Dated Pretoria 24 February 2005 Ref http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1214299/000111667905001149/0001116679-05-001149.txt
Telkom reaches 50,000 customers, reduces ADSL prices and introduces new ADSL products

In early February 2005, Telkom reached 50,000 ADSL customers in South Africa.

On 1 March 2005, Telkom will reduce its monthly ADSL subscription prices for
BusinessDSL 512 and HomeDSL 512 from R800 to R699 and from R680 to R599,
respectively. HomeDSL 384 remains unchanged at R449 per month. New broadband initiatives include the launch of the HomeDSL 192 service for residential customers and the commercial rollout of the Telkom T-Zone service in partnership with Wireless G (Pty) Ltd. At R329 per month, HomeDSL 192 offers a downstream speed of 192 kbps and an upstream speed of 64 kbps. The HomeDSL 192 product is available with a free modem on a two-year contract.

The company also launched Telkom T-Zone as a commercial service at R1,50 per minute, with Wireless G as both a service and channel provider. The partnership combines Telkom's vast infrastructure with Wireless G's internationalised WiFi platform. From 22 March 2005, ADSL512 customers will have free 30-minute sessions on T-Zone - 8 free sessions for HomeDSL 512 customers and 10 free sessions for BusinessDSL 512 customers per month.
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I am about to contact the Advertising Ombudsman and try and restrict them from refering to their 192 offering as "broadband".

Have alook at the bottom of the filing whose buying shares.

BAH!!! :mad:
 
So you must do the same for iBurst and MyWireless ... they run well under that speed most of the time :-)
 
IMHO 512kbps qualifies as broadband, but only just.
 
512Kbps is NOT broadband by anyone international definition that i can find.
 
huh? UK offer broadband as they have offerings HIGHER than 512Kbps. My argument is that as telkom do not offer anything higher than 512 in their DSL suite, they CANNOT refer to it as a broadband offering. QED
 
Peapod said:
huh? UK offer broadband as they have offerings HIGHER than 512Kbps. My argument is that as telkom do not offer anything higher than 512 in their DSL suite, they CANNOT refer to it as a broadband offering. QED
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Now you've lost me.
 
bwana said:
Now you've lost me.
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not really. if i offer broadband services, then one would assume that i have something in my suite of services that is actually broadband.....
 
okay.
as long as you're happy with that as the top DSL service you can get from Telkom, I'm happy for you.
Personally in global terms when i see what other developing countries call broadband, i am gobsmacked.
Then i see what they are paying for their broadband and i am dismayed and furious.
Any angle works for me.
I am just trying to make a difference through any legal avenue open to me.
 
Which by definition should be faster?

Baseband, or broadband? The old network fundis should be able to answer this... remember 10baseT and 10base2? Baseband at 10mbps? haha!
 
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