COUNTDOWN TO UNCAPPED

Telkom says that this forum is a small group of unhappy users and that the majority is quite pleased with being shafted.

I get many people asking me about ADSL... They're interested, but unsure whether it is ready yet for them.

I think that even if Telkom is right and this forum managed to attract the sum total of unhappy users, then what about the mass potential market that's unwilling to sign now because they think Telkom must first sort out the problems?

Sure the broadband service must grow in SA, but I don't see Telkom promising us better, faster, capless and cheaper connectivity in the near future. They're talking about bigger and more expensive.

The global trend is the other way round. Why must SA always be "behind the rest of the world"?

I saw someone post something earlier about us being seperated by a great physical distance and that's why everything is more expensive. We're not further away from anything than say NZ. They had their Telecoms sector deregulated and invited competition and now they have more speed and bandwidth than we will ever see.

Protectionism and government favoured monopolies suck.
 
i honestly don't think that there are that many "home" users that use adsl for the odd browsing and internet access..I might agree with you if the cost was relative to that of the states or the UK where the average home user could justify broadband..
but at close to R1000 a month for browsing and email, you either have to be stupid or well off enough to not care.

broadband is meant for small business and power users, and that constitutes the people on this forum..telkom knows that but honestly does not give a hoot, why ? well read todays paper (second SNO postponed until 2005) ..
hmm .. the reason for this is clear, telkom is not in a position to compete at the moment..they are busy retrenching ppl by the thousands, hoping to streamline their fat cat business in time.

politics politics politics ..
 
2 days to go before the uncap.

There are thousands and thousands of people who need internet access - <i>at the same QoS as the rest of the world</i>.

Soon the government will realise that it and its people are being <b><font color="blue">HELD TO RANSOM</font id="blue"></b> by the monopoly.
This situation is of the goevernment's own making and soon, I believe, it will make a u-turn on the failed processes that are denying the <b><font color="red">MAJORITY</font id="red"></b> of our people the RIGHT of access to information on a broad scale at a competitive price.
 
<font color="blue"><font size="4"><font face="Arial Black">ADSL FOR THE MASSES!!!</font id="Arial Black"></font id="size4"></font id="blue">
 
LESS THAN 1 DAY to being UNCAPPED

It would be interesting to find out if Telkom would have
"qualified" Icasa's SnO test.

I would have given them 25 / 100 - but then again that's a pass [:D]
In fact even a best effort is good enough.

No guarantee to boot and a severely crippled service.
Ah!, but they are exempted from the exam.

Why did I bother to go to school ?? [V] [V]
 
Hoorah ALL are uncapped [:)][:)][:)]

But this is not the only problem [:(!][:(!][:(!]

Got to stay completely away from local until
the cap kicks in.

Telkom you are the master of my browsing habits
 
heheh, International till round the end of month when cap kicks in again :b
 
TELKOM have solved my cap problem...[V][V]

I got my adsl connection last month and it did not take long to
get capped and throttled. The speed was great so the cap kicked
in quite quickly. Mirc is my source.

This month with same source (Mirc) I cannot DL faster than about
10-15MB / hour after hours. Last month was over 100MB /hr - same sources.

Well Telkom with your adsl now running at about 56K modem speed
maybe I won't get capped this month. What a great solution ! [:(!][:(!]
 
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