ADSL is dying (globally)

[kianm]

Not around here

 

[TheChamp]

I'm not so sure. Telkom has always hated ADSL. They have always seen it as a grudge investment. Ironically, ADSL is where they have a monopoly (due to the last mile access), yet they are more interested in playing in the LTE and Fibre markets where competitors have been successful.
Telkom has no interest in investing anymore in ADSL so if a DSLAM is full or there are issues with your ADSL, they'd rather drive you to one of their other products.

I don't know what Telkom are doing. Surely it's cheaper and quicker to upgrade ADSL in areas that already have ADSL and roll out Fibre to new areas first?

ADSL is Telkom's bread and butter I don't know where you get the idea that they hate it, they have invested in ADSL and they are still investing big money, most of the exchanges have been upgraded to MSAN and the project is still going on to upgrade others.

Unfortunately some exchanges are not profitable so it does not make sense to pump more money into them, that is where you will be encouraged to move to other alternative technologies.

 

[ldmelsa]

We will follow the global trend, because there is no other option. Video websites, games and video over ip (Netflix, TV) are going to require big bandwidth. They are not going to slow down for us. Doom4 is like 50GB I think. How do you download that on ADSL1?

 

[Devinity]

Now, redo this article with specific reference to South Africa. To me, this means sweet blue f-all. I know for a fact we wont get FTTH for at least another 5-10 years, if ever. (Quote direct from Telkom). Heck, we dont even get VDSL.

+1

 

[cpu.]

Probably the same tbh, but Telkoms usage of it is shocking to say the least.
It seems like they have configured it to give 10mbps subscribers 6-8mbps, 4mbps subscribers 2.5mbps etc.

My 2Mb line is connected at 2.5Mb. I'm not complaining.

 

[ponder]

I would like to see the sample size / demographics of this study. It might be true for first world countries but I cannot see this being true for the rest.

 

[whatwhat]

I would like to see the sample size / demographics of this study. It might be true for first world countries but I cannot see this being true for the rest.

Honetly, who cares about those countries? Why should the world stand still because some banana country in the armpit of Africa has an incompetent monopoly on their telecoms infrastructure.

 

[Gekco]

Now, redo this article with specific reference to South Africa. To me, this means sweet blue f-all. I know for a fact we wont get FTTH for at least another 5-10 years, if ever. (Quote direct from Telkom). Heck, we dont even get VDSL.

+1

 

[me_]

ADSL is Telkom's bread and butter I don't know where you get the idea that they hate it, they have invested in ADSL and they are still investing big money, most of the exchanges have been upgraded to MSAN and the project is still going on to upgrade others.

Unfortunately some exchanges are not profitable so it does not make sense to pump more money into them, that is where you will be encouraged to move to other alternative technologies.

Telkom was initially very late to launch ADSL. They were worried that it would cannibalize their ISDN and leased line businesses. I strongly suspect that was why they had such low caps initially and used anti-competitive behaviours to keep ISPs caps low as well.

Recently there was an article where one of the guys from Telkom was saying that they were aggressively moving users to FTTH because of the improved supportability of fibre.

A friend of mine moved into Woodstock and there were no free ports available and there were no plans to upgrade the exchange and add more. He waited 6 - 8 months before cancelling his order. With such a long waiting list, surely there must have been a business case there?
A colleague had his line speed drop from 4Mb to 2Mb. He queried with Telkom and they said the line was only 2Mb capable (even though it had run at 4Mb before) and offered him LTE instead. Since he's not a big data user, he took it.
Another colleague had an outage on his line. After a month of following up, they said it would not be fixed and he should rather buy LTE. He went in and completed the contract. The next day, he got a SMS to say his ADSL line had been restored so he went to cancel the LTE which the sales person did reluctantly - they wanted him to cancel his ADSL and keep the LTE instead.
At my wife's work, they have a crappy Telkom ADSL router that has to be restarted daily and resets to factory defaults on average once every 2 weeks. When it resets, they usually call Telkom to assist with setting it up again. On one occasion, the support operator recommended buying an LTE contract to fix the problem - it would because they would get a new router, but they could have just said buy a new router.
There was another case on these forums where someone mentioned they had cable theft which affected their ADSL and Telkom came back afterwards to say they would not be restoring the lines and recommended they buy LTE instead.

There seems to be a trend here...

 

[Tns]

cable is here to stay for a long time