How quickly can you hit your data cap?

[Polemus]

This is the only important piece of the article:

Telkom is in fact not that bad when compared to the worst offerings available globally,

It says a lot when you are compared to the worst, and feel good about your results.

Absolutely !@$#ing pathetic.

 

[ebudae]

Well I can easily work my way through 10 Gigs in a day. My 50gig monthly cap is often not enough to see me through the month. On average I go through about 140gigs a month.

 

[nelwa]

100meg? Whoohaa,You need to slowdown man

haha, yeah I do that on my phone only in a couple of days...

 

[guest2013-1]

Now to complete the article it would have been nice to see a cost associated with the services. It makes Telkom look angelic, which they are not. In these far off lands, the data costs basically nothing, so you just keep topping up or buy a big cap for next to nothing. Here we pay through our noses for the line rental and ADSL rental and data.

+1

Not only are we well below-average according to their statistics, but I'm pretty sure we're #1 in terms of cost. It also needs to be mentioned that Australia has several free-peering policies in the mix as well, which gives their users unlimited data depending on the service (almost like Web Africa attempted to do with Steam). And if you wanted to use the "but we're on the tip of Africa, that is why bandwidth is so costly" excuse. IMAGINE AUSTRALIA! An entire continent cut off from any big civilization...

Also look at their broadband penetration compared to ours. As well as the # of citizens compared to the other countries mentioned... you'll soon get a clearer picture.

/hates These "Telkom PR" sponsored articles...

 

[shadowfox]

article only showed offers that were on the low end spectrum. how about we look at the most popular offer's and see how they measure up?

Agreed.

This comparison is kinda pointless actually - the article is comparing starter/low-end packages (the kind granny uses to check e-mails) to Telkom's high-end (*cough cough*) packages.

Why not compare apples with apples and then see how it stacks up?

 

[Diesal]

It may take 8 mins to reach the their cap, but should they need more its way cheaper to buy say 10 Gigabytes than it is here

 

[Quest10n]

Why not say how fast you blow your money instead of how fast your cap go

Spot on, because right now all that matters is the cost of bandwidth for the consumer in SA.

 

[Sodan]

Now to complete the article it would have been nice to see a cost associated with the services. It makes Telkom look angelic, which they are not. In these far off lands, the data costs basically nothing, so you just keep topping up or buy a big cap for next to nothing. Here we pay through our noses for the line rental and ADSL rental and data.

Exactly. Without a cost indication, this article is incomplete.

 

[gryster]

ITT: Applauding mediocrity. You go MyBB.

 

[torgo]

Why not compare against BT:

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displayTopic.do?topicId=25633

 

[K3NS31]

Why not compare against BT:

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displayTopic.do?topicId=25633

FOOK me!
Cast my eyes down their prices, check this out, for 38 Pounds, or R 417,63 at today's exchange rate:
40Mb/s down, 10Mb/s up
Uncapped
Free phone calls
Line rental included (@ 10 pounds)

This is basically their most expensive option!!!

 

[pjjdp]

FOOK me!
Cast my eyes down their prices, check this out, for 38 Pounds, or R 417,63 at today's exchange rate:
40Mb/s down, 10Mb/s up
Uncapped
Free phone calls
Line rental included (@ 10 pounds)

This is basically their most expensive option!!!

Afrihost/M-Web, look at this and revolutionize the internet forever, PLEASE...

 

[Elimentals]

Afrihost/M-Web, look at this and revolutionize the internet forever, PLEASE...

Cant be done without LLU

 

[MFour]

As many have said, pointless comparison if you do not bring cost into the picture. Telkom is no angel and the sole cause for our p#$@ poor internet usage limits.

 

[pjjdp]

There is fiber all over the place, so a fiber cable into your home. No need for LLU or am I missing something?

 

[grok]

Not in the least fair comparing Telkom's 10meg speed against the rest, when only a small percentage of Telkom clients can reach that.
Be realistic and compare Telkom's 4meg as that's more or less what the average Telkom high-speed client top limit is.

 

[Scoliosis]

Not in the least fair comparing Telkom's 10meg speed against the rest, when only a small percentage of Telkom clients can reach that.
Be realistic and compare Telkom's 4meg as that's more or less what the average Telkom high-speed client top limit is.

This is it in a nutshell. My exchange is 10meg capable (according to their website as well as their call centre) but my line is only stable at 3meg due to aging infrastructre and a lack of investment in the last mile. In site of this I still do 350-400 Gb per month, courtesy of Axxess. Articles like this make me think that the author was given a 50Gb local only bundle from Telkom to portray them as a the best of a bad bunch.

 

[Grep]

I don't think many internet users complain about the cost of Internet anymore, it is more based on the cost to get and stay connected via Telkom. Again I think the pricing is almost now world class, everything else is the problem.

 

[Grouter]

And again, in the real world...

http://www.shaw.ca/Internet/

 

[Browser]

Rather useless information without the cost per meg/gig.

Also Telkom doesn't exactly stack up well against "research revealed that (only) 32% of all DSL products had monthly caps, with an average cap size of 48GB."

How this news tries to put a positive light on Telkom is strange. In fact it's inline with Telkom's own PE, omitting important information and overlooking what makes them look bad.