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Question of the Day: What is the ultimate French toast topping?
Free dialup while you wait for ADSL
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Gunny
Expert Member
What is so special about that most ISP's link a free dailup account to your adsl account.
Telkom should give you a few free hours of surf time during the wait. The cost of the dailup account is least of your worries call cost is the problem.
Telkom should give you a few free hours of surf time during the wait. The cost of the dailup account is least of your worries call cost is the problem.
who.is.michael
Expert Member
Ag shame, cheap marketing trick, what's next - free music on hold...
AirWolf
Honorary Master
This must be their idea of uncapped 
Use as much as you like but you have to pay for the Telkom call costs 
Use as much as you like but you have to pay for the Telkom call costs stoke
Honorary Master
Bwaaahahahahahahahahah ... this kind of crap makes the management and planning peeps at teklom take LONGER to provide the ADSL service requested, cos they could just make more out of the poor saps using Dial-up than they will from the ADSL implementation.
THIS IS A NEGATIVE MOVE.
THIS IS A NEGATIVE MOVE.
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
Their statement of free dial-up is misleading. Mayhaps the ASA will be interested in this one?
If they say free, then it should include the telephone calls as well. In this instance, it would be more honest to say "free dial-up account while you wait"...
martmeister
Well-Known Member
did mybroadband get paid for some of the marketing here? should read "Free MWEB dial up ACCOUNT while you wait for DSL". COME ON!
Essentially MWEB are saving you what, R30, R40 while you wait.
Whatever.
Essentially MWEB are saving you what, R30, R40 while you wait.
Whatever.
AirWolf
Honorary Master
Certainly misleading IMO, considering that the actual account cost is the smallest component in the dial us cost model.
DragonLogos
Expert Member
I would think that going over the 30 working days limit should result in free dial-up (calls) and without a callmore crufew
HavocXphere
Honorary Master
Great fun...but it still costs a fortune to *use* the dial-up due to Telkoms stupid rates. Fail.
Roman4604
Executive Member
Better than nothing, if all you want to do in the short term is start using you new email addr & a bit of Googling.
HavocXphere
Honorary Master
I suppose I'm just frustrated with the overall situation that makes such half-hearted ideas necessary.Roman4604 said:
WebAfrica throws in dial-up access with every account as soon as it is created, so this is nothing special:
http://www.webafrica.co.za/adsl/complete/
And before I get rapped over the knuckles, I am in no way affiliated to them. I do believe however that good service and forward-thinking should be rewarded in this country as it is very rare.
http://www.webafrica.co.za/adsl/complete/
And before I get rapped over the knuckles, I am in no way affiliated to them. I do believe however that good service and forward-thinking should be rewarded in this country as it is very rare.