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Hi guys ! We recently built a house in the Faerie glen area of Pretoria East. The house we built is inside a gated community and the problem we're facing right now is that our entire estate is connected with the open serve network ( telkom ) exept for our street . I'm guessing this is due to most of the houses not being complete. So the fiber cables have been run in front of my house, but the only way I can get them activated is by getting FTTH through telkom. Do you guys know of any other person I can try and get in contact with to get the street activated ?

Also there is a telkom LTE base station roughly 200 meters from my house ( telkom LTE has a 350Gb FUP , where as the 10mbps fiber has a weird shaping policy )

Which service would you okes reccomend ? , telkom LTE ( PROS - uncapped,350Gb FUP , R799 ) (CONS- Telkom LTE, unstable , no garuantee, 24 month contract (._.')), or tekom 10mbps FTTH (PROS - uncapped , Low ping , stable , constant speeds ) ( CONS - 24 month contract , Weird FUP which might be soft capped at 100Gb ? , low-ish speeds which I won't be able to upgrade for 2 years )
 
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ENIAC said:
tekom 10mbps FTTH (PROS - uncapped , Low ping , stable , constant speeds ) ( CONS - 24 month contract , Weird FUP which might be soft capped at 100Gb ? , low-ish speeds which I won't be able to upgrade for 2 years )
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huh? Somebody is feeding you BS.
 
Don't go with Telkom, rather choose another ISP where you are not fixed to a contract.

Currently I am with Webafrica on the Openserve network on a 4mbps uncapped account, did
about 350Gb in January not shaped or throttled once.
 
Koosie said:
Don't go with Telkom, rather choose another ISP where you are not fixed to a contract.

Currently I am with Webafrica on the Openserve network on a 4mbps uncapped account, did
about 350Gb in January not shaped or throttled once.
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No contract? What happens if you want to move from WA to another ISP next month?
 
MickeyD said:
No contract? What happens if you want to move from WA to another ISP next month?
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If you take the free router and 2 months free fibre you will need to return the router or pay for it,

Otherwise month to month and if you want to change ISP I think you need to give 1 months
notice.
 
Koosie said:
If you take the free router and 2 months free fibre you will need to return the router or pay for it,

Otherwise month to month and if you want to change ISP I think you need to give 1 months
notice.
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And pay back the installation cost, activation cost, etc. Better read those T&Cs :p
 
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