ICASA: Your feedback needed

Quote by hArth
-Break the SAT3 monopoly. Local competition means buggerall if Telkom can dictate international bandwidth pricing. ICASA must nationalize SAT3 or give ISPs access at wholesale prices.

This will sort out most issues automatically.
 
what about,

1) No static ip's are available on ADSL. Is this to protect the massively overpriced diginet market?

2) When the cap was enforced, only information downloaded was counted towards the cap. This was suddenly changed to include both uploads and downloads to suite telkom, without notice. How can the product be made inferior when there was already a large subscriber base. I know that telkom have their little statement about being able to change anything they please when they please ... but this should really not be allowed.
 
Force SLA kind of data to be guarenteed by all ISP's for all consumer internet connectivity products: eg minimum repair times, maximum helpdesk queue times, worst contention ratios etc. and add a requirement that an auditors report must be presented to ICASA for public publication how they ensured they complied to the SLA and if they managed to do so.
 
1) I have often wondered where on earth Telkom, and now even MWeb, get the idea that paying in the region of R 600.00/month for ADSL 192 is "extremely affordable". Do they not now that a dial-up connection, although slower, is still a better option for the home user as far as affordabillity and value for money goes. Obviously it depends on your usage pattern, but to me it seems a case of false advertising could be brought against them.

2) Also the capped imposed on us seems to be quite harsh. The thing that bothers me is that they grant you full access for local traffic when capped, but basically cut you off on international traffic. Why then not exclude local traffic from the cap, seeing that they are able to make that destinction. I find it very wrong to include local traffic until you reach the cap, and then suddenly by some miracle local traffic is "free". It would therefor seem that it is not necasary to cap local traffic in the first place, so why use it to help fill up your cap.
 
Steve White referred in some statement that we are only targeting Telkom. The others he listed were Sentech and iBurst, unsure if there was another. I live in Worcester. Can I get Sentech here? NO! Can I get iBurst here? NO! Telkom has such a large share of the market concerning broadband; in my case I CAN'T choose iBurst OR Sentech or I would have gotten iBurst a long time ago.

So that is why me, personally, target Telkom for their exorbitant prices and crappy cap.
 
the wood for the trees.....

the single most important point among all these posts is IMHO from Debbie2:

School learners, students and teachers should be able to have broadband internet at affordable rates (like R80 a month, with a cap even). The internet is the best thing to happen to education since the frigging Guttenberg printing press was invented. I may be wrong, but isn't it true that the govt devotes, in the budget, more money to education than any other sector? Forcing cheaper internet will go a long way in advancing education in SA. *

Nothing is more important than this technology being available to the teachers and youth in this country. At the moment the idea is laughable .. tis way past time a change was made .

WretchedToad
 
rpm:

Here's an idea. Stand up there and say:

"I read in the media that Telkom were planning to ask us why we were 'picking' them out. To answer that, I would like to ask Telkom the same question- "why do you think we're 'picking' you out?" - Truth is, we all know the answer to that question, we all know it goes back to a history of Telkom's overcharging. So lets not waste time on that question any longer."
 
Compare Telkom's prices to those of another 3rd world country that offers cheaper prices.
 
Antowan' presentation for ADSL hearing

Outline of my presentation to ICASA. Note that this can and probably will change slightly before Wednesday...


My presentation to the ICASA panel will focus on the following core issues:
1. Cost structure of ADSL
2. The disparity between what we need versus what we get
3. What are we missing out on!
a. Restrictions on local innovation because of cap
* People don’t want to surf local in order not to waste international bandwidth
b. Radio
* Internet radio can is one of the first things that should be spawned after broadband release in particular area. We don’t see a commercial entry into the market.
c. Television
* Online television should also be a money spinner but people’s fear of using local bandwidth and limiting international is hampering this.
d. Local high def websites using intense multimedia aimed at broadband market.
4. Recommendations to fix the current situation
a. Lower entry price to ADSL
b. Don’t count local bandwidth toward international cap
5. A vision for the future
a. Upping instead of downing service options
b. Buzzing local sites
c. Multimedia driven broadband – not just HTML and EMAIL!
 
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The current cost of telecoms in ZA is stifling eCommernce = lost jobs, less skills development, less taxes for the gov.
 
Did they move the hearings?

I saw somewhere it was advertised as from the 13th...

I reallt want to try and attend so please could you refer me to the updated agenda if there is such a thing
 
ICASA should hear about the downward trend of prices/ upward speed for the same money for ADSL in the rest of the world.

Telkom reduced its pricing minimal, but keeps on adding services so slow that it makes SA look like a banana republic.
 
Try to get the dammage this high prices are doing to the economy into the picture.
 
Compare to BT

Compare our broadband to BT.

Go to www.bt.co.uk. Click on broadband.

Wow.

1MB bandwidth with 1GB included at 17.99 Pounds. That is R210.
2MB bandwidth with 15GB included at 24.99 Pounds. That is R 291.

Compared to what I have, I am being ripped off.

Cedric
 
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