ADSL prices drop

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Telkom announces its intention to reduce ADSL prices and international private
leased circuits from 1 August 2005
On 1 August 2005, Telkom will reduce prices for its monthly ADSL subscription
prices as follows:
March 2005 August 2005 % change
ZAR ZAR
HomeDSL 192 329 270 (17.9)
HomeDSL 384 449 359 (20.0)
HomeDSL 512 599 477 (20.4)
BusinessDSL 699 477 (31.8)
 
well its a step in the right direction!
 
lol three threads on the same topic, clearly Telscum was watches wit eagle eyes :D
 
I was thinking more along the lines of: Uh, oh, uhm, is that it? ... damn, still can't afford it :mad:
 
My reaction exactly. At that price we are still being insanely ripped off. Drop the entry level package price to R150 or less and drop ISP costs to R100 or less, and then we're starting to approach reasonable costs. Not acceptable costs mind you considering the inferior quality of the product on offer, but slightly less insane. A comment in the President's State of the Nation address about how high bradband costs are holding back development and and two weeks of ICASA hearings and we get a measly average drop of 20% on a product that is overpriced by 400%? That's like stores marking up their products by 400% and people getting excited about a 20% sale!

We are not amused.
 
Flint, I agree with you but if there is nothing better what we should do? Don't use internet at all?
 
Flint said:
My reaction exactly. At that price we are still being insanely ripped off. Drop the entry level package price to R150 or less and drop ISP costs to R100 or less, and then we're starting to approach reasonable costs. Not acceptable costs mind you considering the inferior quality of the product on offer, but slightly less insane. A comment in the President's State of the Nation address about how high bradband costs are holding back development and and two weeks of ICASA hearings and we get a measly average drop of 20% on a product that is overpriced by 400%? That's like stores marking up their products by 400% and people getting excited about a 20% sale!

We are not amused.
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Yes and then don't forget about the looming more restrictive cap they are about to impose. Makes it even worse :mad:

Oh and welcome Flint! Thanks for joining, albeit under these circumstances :)
 
Thanks MFour. :) I've been lurking for a while, but I have been looking forward to the new pricing details and was horribly disappointed both at the lame price drops, and the fact that anyone actually said anything positive about it!

swordfish1, obviously it's not practical to go boycotting the only internet options we have available, but I don't believe any positive response is appropriate. We are being handed an inferior product at overinflated prices, if Ivy or anyone from Telkom looks over a consumer forum like this I think they should be getting an overwhelmingly negative reaction to make it blatantly obvious that we as consumers know we are being ripped off and are really not happy with it.

I know it's a price drop, but it's just not good enough! Not even as a start!
 
Although I agree with you Flint the only positive thing, for me really is the fact that MyADSL (RPM and Gang) managed to do this. Well that's what I believe anyway, without the presure put on Telkom, intiated by RPM and the ICASA hearing, not even this would have happened. So in that I see a victory of sorts.
 
Flint, I just cancelled my iBurst, and to me ADSL looks like the best, most reliable and usefull internet connection I can ever imagine :-) So sorry if I look a bit excited about it, but if you try iBurst, everything will excite you afterwards! iBurst is much worst than dial-up modem, and you can't compare it to ADSL at all!

So, yes, Telscum sucks! Broadband should cost 200-300 rands all inclusive! And we should have no traffic limits, or if there are any they should start at 30GB+ ... After 2 years, when the world start to watch proper TV over 100 Mbit internet connections we will get what we ask for now ... but SA is so much behind in this stuff and with people like the WBS CEO and the telcum management it will get even worse very soon, I am afraid!
 
Dominic Rooney said:
I still want to see the ICASA report though...
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Yes most definately. Wonder if ICASA can force Telkom to further reduce their prices?
 
nothing works with "forcing" ... it works with competition ... if there is competition no one needs to force anyone to do anything ... they will just be out of business shortly
 
Watch them come up with some other "feature" you have to pay a monthly fee for all of a sudden.

Lets take a few wild guesses...

Hmmm. XTraContentionTopup
Upgrade your contention ratio from 1:100 to 1:99 for 20% of the cost more.

Hello Telkom Spy. No, it's not an Idea. Its Not Psychic.
It's Pre-emptive Reserved Psychology. Or was that Reserve. Reverse. Whatever. I couldnt access the online thesaurus quick enough.
 
Am i the only one who thinks its actually the line rental that is the REAL issue in terms of cost ???????
 
swordfish1 said:
nothing works with "forcing" ... it works with competition ... if there is competition no one needs to force anyone to do anything ... they will just be out of business shortly
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Yes you have a point there. I'm just a bit sceptical about the SNO being competition. What's to stop them from reaching some kind of an argreement with Telkom to not drop fees. After all, they will still use Telkom's network to start off with, won't they? But in principle competition should reduce pricing, I'm just not sure that it works so well in SA. It did'nt realy have a hudge impact on the Cellphone players. Prices stay more or less the same, but more trinckets are offered, I don't want trinckets, I want real affordable DSL :)
 
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