ADSL prices over the years

Remember when I wanted ADSL in 2004, I was still a student, I promised myself "one day" :p :D

Will Telkom ever provide ADSL without the mandatory line rental? :(
 
I wondered if other countries have the same, afaik in the UK you have the same thing. (People there also don't like it :p)
 
Many Internet users in South Africa were ecstatic when Telkom officially launched its ADSL service in August 2002. With a downlink speed of 512 Kbps the company’s ADSL service offered far better speeds than dial-up (56 Kbps) or ISDN (64/128 Kbps), and also did not require users to ‘dial-up’ and be charged by the minute to access the Internet.
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I remember back then when I was on dial-up and any time on the internet just added up to huge amounts of valuable money on the next telkom bill. then came ADSL. First, it was a dream moving to 64k from 56k (which I thought was 'ample why would anyone want more' until I actually felt the responsiveness of 64k) - then I paid for a multilink account with uunet which allowed me to get 128k - WOW 14KB/s, DOUBLE that of 64k, but at a HUGE cost. Then ADSL - wow, downloading at 52KB/s. What a leap, and for gaming the latency went from 150, to 40, to 15 in those few years. Somehow it feels like not much has changed since 2003 - we used to have uncapped local for a while, but because international was so expensive, people abused the local infrastructure... well now international is a lot more affordable and yet all these years later we're still being capped for LOCAL use at a fraction of the average GB's that overseas ISP's cap their customers at for INTERNATIONAL bandwidth (if they even cap them at all), at speeds often way faster than ours... so 8Mbps (at the very least) is overdue if you ask me, and it's not going to look good for telkom if they can't make it happen ;/
 
All I can is memories, memories....... However there's still a lot to be done!!!
 
I'm afraid that the broadband bus has been moving too fast for Telkom to cope with...

The rest of the first class telecoms world has migrated to bullet trains and we are still on a PUTCO bus held together with bloudraad!
 
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What would been even more interesting would be to log the regulatory actions against Telkom on a time line and compare it to the price adjustments...

Part of the problem is ICASA no setting a proper framework to force Telkom to move this market forward, the result, price and product stagnation for the past couple of years.
 
Techrat said:
I wondered if other countries have the same, afaik in the UK you have the same thing. (People there also don't like it :p)
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They dont like it, but they have it MUCH better than us, larger caps/uncapped, all in one packages (data/voice/tv), MUCH cheaper.

Telkom should at least give you 50% off adsl access if you have voice rental as well.
But oh... yes, its TELSKUM. What did we expect, they been raping us all these years, who's going to stop them now?
 
Way back in June 2006 I ordered a ADSL line. Today I still have not got it.

Lets do a then and now on HSDPA over the last 4 years, that will be easy. Nothing has changed.
 
rpm said:
Telkom launched its 512 Kbps ADSL service in August 2002, priced at R680 per month. This is what has happened since then.
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And for almost as many years, these forums have been filled with "Telkom this, Telscum that" or "Telkom is raping us" and so forth.

Yet, all this time Telkom has been attempting (with varied levels of success) to do exactly what it should be doing. Telkom is a company, and as such, has only one mandate: To maximise return on investment for its shareholders. A company is not responsible for the well-being of the public or the growth of a country, it is responsible for only itself.

These forums are filled with so much misdirected hatred. The entity responsible and accountable for the telecommunication problems (and so much more) is the South African government, for poor regulation and protecting the monopoly. Ultimately then, as with almost every other problem in South Africa, the blame should fall upon 66% of the population of South Africans, by last count.
 
Betonro said:
And for almost as many years, these forums have been filled with "Telkom this, Telscum that" or "Telkom is raping us" and so forth.

Yet, all this time Telkom has been attempting (with varied levels of success) to do exactly what it should be doing. Telkom is a company, and as such, has only one mandate: To maximise return on investment for its shareholders. A company is not responsible for the well-being of the public or the growth of a country, it is responsible for only itself.

These forums are filled with so much misdirected hatred. The entity responsible and accountable for the telecommunication problems (and so much more) is the South African government, for poor regulation and protecting the monopoly. Ultimately then, as with almost every other problem in South Africa, the blame should fall upon 66% of the population of South Africans, by last count.
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Telkom is a Parastatal. Their shareholders are the govt which is indirectly us (us as shareholders not govt).
 
flip man these guys are like the ANC- with no REAL competition, there is no incentive for them to up their game and lower their prices
 
Lol, this must be the only country where entry-level adsl actually got slower as time progressed.
 
Betonro said:
And for almost as many years, these forums have been filled with "Telkom this, Telscum that" or "Telkom is raping us" and so forth.

Yet, all this time Telkom has been attempting (with varied levels of success) to do exactly what it should be doing. Telkom is a company, and as such, has only one mandate: To maximise return on investment for its shareholders. A company is not responsible for the well-being of the public or the growth of a country, it is responsible for only itself.

These forums are filled with so much misdirected hatred. The entity responsible and accountable for the telecommunication problems (and so much more) is the South African government, for poor regulation and protecting the monopoly. Ultimately then, as with almost every other problem in South Africa, the blame should fall upon 66% of the population of South Africans, by last count.
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Why am i to blame? I haven't got a telkom line. I vote with my wallet. The problem is theres no one else. Its the Devil or his wife (iBurst) for me. Iam with the wife atm, i just like woman better, but thats just me.
 
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