Increase in Telkom ADSL growth

That's very good. Almost 10% year on year.

The more people that see value in fixed line services, the closer we get to better economies of scale that allow prices to fall.
 
Jan can you do an article on the ADSL subscriber base growth vs Telkom's ADSL price drops over the years?
 
Well that's great. They told me I can't receive an ADSL line. I so wanted to be part of that stat.
 
Chevron said:
That's very good. Almost 10% year on year.

The more people that see value in fixed line services, the closer we get to better economies of scale that allow prices to fall.
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If they listened 10 years ago, then I'm sure there'd be well over a million ADSL subscribers by now.

Drop or, God forbid, scrap your rental charges and then see how many more folks will move over to DSL!! You'll make back some, maybe even all, of that revenue loss via the increased demand for IPC or other data/traffic revenue streams.

Adapt or die.
 
The table below shows the growth of DSL in South Africa since the launch of the service in late 2002:
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most people process ideas and stats better with pictures. a graph might help.
 
MickeyD said:
If they listened 10 years ago, then I'm sure there'd be well over a million ADSL subscribers by now.

Drop or, God forbid, scrap your rental charges and then see how many more folks will move over to DSL!! You'll make back some, maybe even all, of that revenue loss via the increased demand for IPC or other data/traffic revenue streams.

Adapt or die.
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Too true. But hey it's fun milking those who can afford it and way easier than providing access to the majority of the population

Despite the growth in ADSL subscribers Telkom said that revenue from data connectivity services decreased 0.5% to R2,744 million (down from R2,757 million in September 2013), caused by a decline in Diginet and IPLC revenue due to increased competition and migration to Metro Ethernet services. This was partially offset by an increase in Metro Ethernet services and ADSL revenue.
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Am sure if they dropped the line rental the numbers will quadruple in record time
 
Meanwhile, elsewhere, the Oxygen Monopoly Supply Company, which supplies oxygen to all the residents on the moon, has seen a remarkable rise in subscribers.

Said spokesperson Inooit Liegie" Most people seem to understand now they need our oxygen, and is taking advantage of our great deals. Even thought they have to also pay extra for the taps that come supplied on the oxygen bottles."
 
ttygt said:
Meanwhile, elsewhere, the Oxygen Monopoly Supply Company, which supplies oxygen to all the residents on the moon, has seen a remarkable rise in subscribers.

Said spokesperson Inooit Liegie" Most people seem to understand now they need our oxygen, and is taking advantage of our great deals. Even thought they have to also pay extra for the taps that come supplied on the oxygen bottles."
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http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/660301-Turnaround-strategy-paying-off-Telkom

Well... if you turnaround the bottles then everything is mos alraait!

Except for those wanting more oxygen!!!!
 
How is this even possible? Fixed-line subscribers are declining every year, and Telkom is refusing to replace stolen copper in a number of suburbs suffering from repeated copper theft, as well as refusing to install new lines in new developments. I can't see how ADSL is growing when it's obvious that Telkom has no interest in maintaining or increasing it's fixed line business.
 
MickeyD said:
Drop or, God forbid, scrap your rental charges and then see how many more folks will move over to DSL!! You'll make back some, maybe even all, of that revenue loss via the increased demand for IPC or other data/traffic revenue streams.
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In South Africa the born and bred mentality is to milk as few as possible people for as much as you legally can, instead of milking as many people as you can for as little money as possible.

Strikes me as very risk averse
 
If only they have more ports available, then I will be able to be part of the stats as well.
2 months, and no internet at home. Why?!
 
15 years on, and the same truths, ideas and frustrations still stand...

Back then, us ISP's begged Telkom, to scrap charging for voice calls on ISDN. Loads more people would have signed up for what was then, the precursor to ADSL. This would have immensely helped fund the national roll out of infrastructure to even, the remotest of areas.
Back then I was showing the guys at Tellumat (making the PABX's for Telkom) how using spiffy Cisco kit, we could cram 4 digital voice calls over an isdn line with awesome clarity. But no, this would have eaten into their Diginet profits! Short sighted to say the least.
Etc etc etc. There were loads of other guys showing Telkom cool things and better ways to implement those ideas.

ALL was ignored. Telkom passed on the golden of opportunities, to roll out the de-facto standards back then. They would own it all and be untouchable. And as an added bonus there was easy migration to newer technologies as they would become available.

Fast forward to today, and Telkom, for the most part has gone backwards, and has single handedly held this country back, mauled our competitive edge and heavily contributed to inflation and economic hardship.
If I think where South Africa should have been technologically, all I want to do is weep.

The solutions we proposed are still valid today and their benefit to the countries growth, still as possible.
 
The day they remove line rental is the day that everyone else who is contemplating will easily arrive to the decision to take up ADSL. Right now people are considering other wireless solutions, like me
 
MickeyD said:
If they listened 10 years ago, then I'm sure there'd be well over a million ADSL subscribers by now.

Drop or, God forbid, scrap your rental charges and then see how many more folks will move over to DSL!! You'll make back some, maybe even all, of that revenue loss via the increased demand for IPC or other data/traffic revenue streams.

Adapt or die.
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except that if the scrap all copper related charges and keep IPC at the applicable carriage through price they would have the usual gang complaining to the competition commission
AND in order to make the copper charge argument work Telkom would have to retain "inflated" prices at IPC - so no transparent pricing

The alternative would be to unbundle the local loop with an appropriate transparent costs model and for an intermediary revenue division to offer "free copper" (so it pays to wholesale for copper rental) with traffic being obligated to go through its IPC mechanism
 
Nod said:
If only they have more ports available, then I will be able to be part of the stats as well.
2 months, and no internet at home. Why?!
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Same problem here, they asked for a large deposit on an ADSL line, paid it, and still no ports available for the past 2 months :(
 
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