A million lost, and counting

Telkom : Resistance are Futile. Your wallet will be assimilated.





...NOT if the current trends continue at a steady pace without any interruptions or meddling by !casa, Ivy, the DoC and Stalin-Malofe...
 
Goldstuck predicts that wireless broadband as a primary form of connectivity will overtake ADSL at the end of 2009 and that Telkom is aware that it should not lose out on this market.
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Rubbish? Goldstruck is a little bit confused -- many people are, and will be for the forseeable future, reluctant to use wireless services for internet - and rightfully so: it's slower and more contented.
There will always be wired services available, be it copper or fibre.
Right now Telkom holds the monopoly in that department, and the problem is they don't seem to realize its value by the rate they're pushing into the wireless area and doing little to restore broken fixed-line infrastructure.
 
Hmmm... is Telkom going mobile because they think fixed line is out of vogue?
Pfffffft
 
Free installation and low service charges

Telkom may manage to hold onto their existing customers and acquire a few more if they offered free installation and low service charges (line rental). At least for Residential users as this is where I think they have lost a lot of customers as some people can ill afford under these trying financial times to even pay for the line rental.
So at least offer a service where Residential Users can still have a phone even if they cannot afford to use it. In other words receive calls. Telkom is still making money that way.

Installation should not take longer that 2 weeks and should be free. Monthly service charges should be nothing more than about R19.95.

It seems like Telkom are happy with what they have?
The bulk of the Fixed Lines in operation in the hands of Business, Government and Residential. Residential of course only available in certain areas.

The trouble is Telkom have left it too late. The Migration has happened. They can only hope now that the remaining residential customers don't migrate as well and certain small businesses.
I say certain small businesses as recently I used the services of a very small business operating from a shop, but the lady that owned the business had no Fixed Line at the shop and if you needed to get hold of her you must ring her cell phone.
Maybe it is me, but I cant get used to that.
A business needs a fixed line, like a boat needs an anchor.
 
BTTB said:
Telkom may manage to hold onto their existing customers and acquire a few more if they offered free installation and low service charges (line rental). At least for Residential users
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They do have the prepaid Waya-Waya service. Installation and first year's rental is R250 all inclusive. Thereafter it costs R120 per year. Your calls are extra of course. HOWEVER, call rates are 20 to 30% more expensive than a conventional postpaid line. And, of course, ADSL does not run on prepaid.
(I share an ADSL line with 2 other guys over wifi, so I pay about R50 odd per month for "connectivity rental", and the rest is just my own ISP costs as each of us make our own PPPOE connections to the net)

I have two of these Waya-Waya lines. One for grandma and grandpa who still insist on calling us on a "normal" line and the other is my fax line.
 
Hello MoHag,

Goes to show I did not know such a product existed.

Looks like an option for residential users. Bit late for many who opted for just a Cell Phone.

Personally I prefer a normal telephone mainly because it far cheaper than a Cell Phone. My Cell Phone lays on my desk most of the time.

Cheers.
BTTB.
 
No matter what service they offer at what price, they are still Telkom. The company that raped this land for decades on end. If you consider becoming a customer then you should perhaps think about the atrocities this company done to the country you love.
 
telkom is like a weed and they don't die so easy
 
fragtion, you seem to be the confused one. Nothing you say contradicts anything I have said.
Arthur
 
The roof the roof the roof is on fire
The roof the roof the roof is on fire
The roof the roof the roof is on fire
We don't need no water let the motherfscker burn

Tux said:
Burn Motherfsckers... BURN!
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The problem is there is a lot of people out there saying :
- "Ja but it is all I could get so that is why I have Telkom".
- "But I play games and fixed copper is cool so I use Telkom".
- "They are still the cheapest for what I want to do".

And other excuses just to back this corporation that rapes our nation.
 
Rouxenator said:
The problem is there is a lot of people out there saying :
- "Ja but it is all I could get so that is why I have Telkom".
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To my knowledge, this is rubbish. There's almost no-where (that I'm aware of) where Telkom is absolutely the only option available.

- "But I play games and fixed copper is cool so I use Telkom".
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This is a valid statement if you're a gamer and require low latency.

- "They are still the cheapest for what I want to do".
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Sometimes, this is actually the case.

And other excuses just to back this corporation that rapes our nation.
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These are not excuses, although due to you being an avowed Telkom hater and prepared to pay more/able to afford more, you always take them as such.

I, like most people, would love a ferrari or a porsche or a lamborghini or mercedes or whatever, and since I can't afford it, or choose not to pay the ridiculous fees in order to have one, I drive a car that gets me from A-B and suits my needs. There are plenty of other more affordable cars, but I choose not to use them as they don't suit my individual needs.
Similarly, my internet needs are currently met by Telkom's ADSL service, which no other supplier (at present) can match, whether on price, speed, latency or whatever.
As soon as a viable alternative arrives, I will move. In the meantime though, this continual diatribe about Telkom being the devil and how everyone should just stop using their services in order to just stop supporting Telkom, even if the alternatives are inferior or don't match the needs, is really useless.
 
Well, I have been mostly happy with DSL for some time. It is expensive, but then again, I use it for work, and I need stability.

Of course, the last 3 weeks the line has been close to useless - syncing issues and so on.

Telkom seems incapable of fixing it, despite many call outs - and do not seem to have even the basic tools to TEST the line, let alone fix it.

So, Neotel may be gaining one new subscriber next month.
 
I'm one of the 110000 customers they lost in 2007...LOL! And I've never regretted it for one second.

On Tuesday someone in my suburb (close to the East Rand mall) wrote a letter to the local paper and said they've been without a phone since Feb after the cables in our suburb where stolen...so if I styed with Telkom I would have been in the same boat! LOL!
 
Chunkyfeather said:
Impossible, he was most likely downloading something also. I have 4 mb adsl and i get 25-35 ping.

When i was on 384k i got 65-75 ping. So that dude most likely had the connection blues that day.

Wireless will never work for low latency, too many variables. But lets hope it does improve.
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Yes you're right with the Local gaming server pings. But overseas servers favour HSDPA/3G over adsl(shaped) so far as I've seen.

Never had downtime either, except 1am in the morning when MTN did some upgrades or so.
 
Wireless

Wireless are for children and criminals, fixed line and other forms of fixed lines are for those that are serious about quality communications.
 
Rouxenator said:
Just change your needs and stop supporting Telkom.
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You can't change a need. You can change a want/desire, but a need, not so much.
For instance, you need oxygen to survive, suggesting changing it, isn't going to help.
I want/desire an ISP that supplies my needs other than Telkom, unfortunately, for my needs, none are currently available.
 
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