ADSL...Telkom??

[Keithk]

Hi there,
Everybody seems to be harping about exhuberent ADSL and Telkom costs, well I fully agree but the fact remains that those who have the power to see that we get a 2nd landline service provider are not doing much about this, it was on the news that this would be done but to no avail and to date Telkom is doing all the laughing and controling the market to ADSL.
Then again a 2nd service provider will get us no where if we go the same road as the 3 mobile service providers because they are still in cue with each other and are much more expensive as our international counterparts and controling the price structure.
The 2nd landline provider will still have to use all of Telkoms network to get going so how can we win at all as in the case of Cell C and again Telkom will control the price structure.
Regards
Keith

 

[plugger123]

Sentech and Iburst could kick telkom's behind but I think Telkom is making sure they don't succeed. This is only speculation on my part but I think Iburst and Sentech are having a situation where they cannot afford bandwidth because they have to buy it from Telkom. Maybe they say nothing about this because nobody would make use of a service that is bandwidth starved. Their service are overloaded/slow. Bandwidth is expensive and to still make a good profit they have to cut corners. (Take on as many users as possible and hope they can pay the bandwidth bills and other bills) - At the end of they day their users looses with slow speeds as they are probably a bandwidth starved service.

What Sentech and Iburst should do is that they should create packages to suite everybodie's needs. For example:

Have packages available with no cap. They can do this cheaply by getting bandwidth from a satelite. The bandwidth that comes from the satelite can be obtained cheaply from an oversea's provider. This will mainly be for people that loves p2p - If they are clever like thay are with shaping p2p they could sniff packets and if it's browser based they could route these packets normally through saix as it would not be p2p and this would speed up browsing - or maybe they could sniff any p2p things and route it through the satelite because bandwidth usage for 2p2 would then be cheaper.

Have a package where no ports are shaped but capped. For business uses, etc..

Why can't they not do this? or is bandwidth not the real problem?

 

[Keithk]

Well something has got to be done to kick some Telkom butt and get us a better deal than this one sided show

 

[mas]

Well something has got to be done to kick some Telkom butt and get us a better deal than this one sided show

true man!but it aint tht easy!