Dial-up minute rebate secrecy continues

[rpm]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Telecoms/643.html

 

[Syndyre]

Interesting, wonder what Telkom's motivation is? I'm guessing with the proliferation of cellphones and ADSL their fixed line PSTN is becoming underutilised so this way ISPs can afford to offer cheaper dialup accounts and thereby increase usage. Could be the same motivation for all the closer plans.

 

[andres101]

telkom promoting dialup... now there is a surprise!

 

[Tns]

they up to something, again....

 

[DragonLogos]

The public have a right to know, it is after all their / our money - one can understand why they would not want the public to know, but you cannot have back doors - it is bad enough that people have to pay for a service that could be un metered, but now take this curse of a charge and hand it out to others like hush money is just to much

 

[telkomsuig]

lol in 10 years SA will be the only country in the world where we still use and actively market dial up internet.

 

[Syndyre]

Wouldn't this have had to have been approved by ICASA?

 

[DragonLogos]

Maybe ICASA gets 1c a minute of the total take

 

[ic]

Clearly Telkodemonopolies is trying its worst to protect its obsolete dialup market & revenue stream.

My suggestion, to kill dialup at a faster rate, is that !CASA needs to create a regulation that expressly prohibits lengthy dialup contracts, such that all dialup customers can get out of a dialup contract by giving 30 days notice and not be tied into dialup for 12 months or more as is currently the case.

 

[DragonLogos]

Other than people buying PCs from Game etc. were do people sign one year CONtracts

 

[MFour]

The title "BACK to the Future" comes to mind...

 

[StefK]

No comment.

 

[Tux]

Exactly the type of thing you'd expect from the worst telecomms company in the world

 

[antowan]

Sick!

Local call should be free. We've had this discussion so many times before. Telkom is simply trying to protect its per minute and per second analogue business.

 

[telkomsuig]

in the 80's it was if I remember correctly... half a step forward...6 steps back for telkom.

 

[DOOMIE61]

lol in 10 years SA will be the only country in the world where we still use and actively market dial up internet.

no no give it a year. they have stopped ISDN here never mined dialup

 

[AirWolf]

World's first: telecommunications company promoting dial up and not broadband

 

[telkomsuig]

Actually a good business opportunity import second hand modems from the first/second/rest of the third world and sell them here

 

[schchris]

I don't think I have ever read anywhere Neotel speaking about Dial-up or ISDN.

They must be thinking to themselves "shame poor Telkom, they really don't have a clue"

 

[msmoorad]

id rather use dial-up

when i had a dial up connection, i used to download over 25GB of stuff a month- it was slower but if i had to compare the two i prefer dial up- for the simple reason that there is no cap.

and for some reason(please feel free to tell me if anyone knows why) i used to get a better connection to the P2P networks-much better than i do with ADSL- and i have XP SP2 and Mcafee antivirus and firewall.
if only telkom would offer a flat rate of R250 monthly for unlimited dial up internet use- i would pick that until our ADSL offerings are decent.