GTS down, but not out

According to a well placed source doing business with GTS the company has had its ‘biggest month yet’ in July
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According to Maguire GTS is currently doing ‘fairly well’.
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These are both highly relative terms. Actual figures would be a lot more revealing, methinks.
 
I would not touch this company with a barge pole. Based on what they promised all those years ago... and what they actually have delivered so far. I would not trust them.
 
I have had the pleasure of being forced to use GTS for about a year. I live in one of these gated communities where we have fibre throughout. I in fact paid a fortune as part of the cost of my stand.
Telkom was not allowed to lay lines in the estate so we were all forced to use either the cellular networks or GTS. The cost of my 5gig package is currently R800 per month. It's often not functional and at the best of times my connection speed is a max of 1024.

So needless to say, i hope that GTS gets liquidated into the next dimension.
 
Hand in the till? Living the high life without being able to afford it? Think you have "arrived" by pushing around a few bits? No mention of the suits, ties and shiny shoes involved in what is clearly: BAD MANAGEMENT. So sure.. give them another go.. they'll probably just **** it up again.
 
What happened to broadband over powerlines that they were suppose to do? One of their projects?
 
darklordpook said:
I have had the pleasure of being forced to use GTS for about a year. I live in one of these gated communities where we have fibre throughout. I in fact paid a fortune as part of the cost of my stand.
Telkom was not allowed to lay lines in the estate so we were all forced to use either the cellular networks or GTS. The cost of my 5gig package is currently R800 per month. It's often not functional and at the best of times my connection speed is a max of 1024.

So needless to say, i hope that GTS gets liquidated into the next dimension.
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I had the "privilege" to use them in one Midstream as well. Service was mostly okay - one nice thing was that the service was symmetrical, so 1 Mbps up and down. But yes, they just can't compete on a per-GB basis with the bigger players.

Hopefully this will learn these gated communities - you can't expect a small company to provide the same kind of service that the bigger players can. GTS went down, and before that YSL and before that eTube. Even Vox managed the network for 2 weeks - and disconnected the account authentication server in the middle of a Monday morning to do changes (we unfortunately had an office who had to rely on this network there)!! Midstream should just pressure Telkom to install lines for everybody and get over and done with it.

About the ONLY thing that GTS had was a good call center - I reached a technician (multiple times, I might add) immediately when I phoned.
 
FISHborn said:
What happened to broadband over powerlines that they were suppose to do? One of their projects?
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Vapourware... yes they promised us 90 mbps over power lines way back in the early 2000s. :D The thread is still around here somewhere.
 
ebendl said:
Bladdy hell - did anybody believe it?!
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We were hopeful... the thread went on for pages and pages. But soon get buried as the years went by and as the Broadband over Power Lines technology pretty much died all over the world.
 
Garyvdh said:
But soon get buried as the years went by and as the Broadband over Power Lines technology pretty much died all over the world.
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The problem with BPL has always been pollution of the frequency spectrum in use by radio systems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_line_communication#Broadband_over_power_line_.28BPL.29

They should have addresses these issues before trials/implementation. Hopefully more research goes into the technology but on the other hand that 90Mb/s is shared bandwidth amongst many users and in developed countries this has been surpassed by other technologies so there might no be incentive to develop the technology further.
 
Garyvdh said:
Ja, those power lines gave off more buzz and static than a nuclear reactor. I don't think they were going to get the problem solved very soon.
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It's a pity though as the delivery mechanism is probably the most prolific in the world.
 
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