International Bandwidth is cheap !!

[kaspaas]

Hi,

RPM, will you politely send this to Mr White and ask him where I'm wrong - because if seems as if Telkom is selling us a major lie somewhere.

I just realised that Telkom admitted that International bandwidth is cheap.

For a business they charge R800 per month for the privilege of having a signal running over an existing telephone line from an exchange to an office.

There is NO international traffic included in that.

International traffic only gets included if you order "Prolog" (R219) or "Prolog+" (R239)

The high cost of ADSL is NOT in the cost of International bandwidth as Telkom claims, but in the cost of providing the service over the line.

Funny, but why should Telkom's cost be so much higher than the european Telco's?

The only obvious reason is that they have too many slackers to fund and now we have to pay for it! Nice being a statutory monopoly, isn't it?

 

[Chubs]

Nice one Kaspaas. Overseas they would only charge the R200 odd for the internet, not the line rental too!!!!!!!
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[kaspaas]

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<br />Nice one Kaspaas. Overseas they would only charge the R200 odd for the internet, not the line rental too!!!!!!!
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In Germany you buy the 2 seperate as well.

A friend there says he pays around E20 for the line and another E20 for unlimited bandwidth with no priority problems.

E40 is around R350

 

[rpm]

Hi Kaspaas

I received even more interesting information regarding the price of international bandwidth from a very reliable source. He asked me not to publish his writings in draught form, and said he would email me a more precise article on the issue for publication. It handles all relevant factors including the international optical fiber cables etc. I was quite surprised. I hope to receive a version for publication soon.

Regards,

RPM
[email protected]

 

[VQuest]

kaspaas, I had never looked at it like that. Very good point.


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Would love to read the publication. []

 

[madala]

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Funny, but why should Telkom's cost be so much higher than the european Telco's?
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It isn't, but they have bundled two services, and are fiddling with the selling prices to stifle competition.

I suspect that what is going on here is similar to what happened earlier with PTTs in Europe. Telkom are abusing their carrier monopoly to charge an inflated price for the ADSL last mile, and then using some of that money to subsidise bandwidth provision, thereby making it very difficult for the unsubsidised ISPs to compete on bandwidth costs. The customer pays the bulk of his money to Telkom for low-cost ADSL, regardless of which ISP he uses. It is a clever way of leveraging their carrier monopoly into a bandwidth provision advantage. They want it ALL!