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Home DSL - 192 - R270 (frm 01 Aug) All costs included? Then you still need a telephone line... ?

Telkom drops ADSL and data prices further

Telkom today delivered on its promise to reduce ADSL and data prices even further, with the entry-level high-speed Internet access product down to R270 per month.

Prices for International Private Leased Circuits (IPLCs) via the submarine cable and satellite will be reduced by 28%, having decreased by an average of 23% during 2004.

These price reductions will be implemented on 1 August 2005. They form part of Telkom's broadband strategy to manage its ADSL and data costs down to ensure that access barriers to speedy Internet services are lowered, and that the Company responds aggressively to competition on the international traffic front.

Telkom has not increased its ADSL prices since it launched the ADSL service in 2002. On the contrary, the company lowered ADSL prices by an average of 12% in March this year when it reached a 50 000 customer mark, lifting the ADSL subscriber base to a record 67 000 to date.

In pursuit of its objective to manage prices down and promote widespread Internet access, Telkom launched the HomeDSL 192 low-level broadband solution for residential customers at R329 in March this year.

This ADSL product offering will now cost 18% less at R270 per month, allowing customers to surf the Internet and download content faster at this affordable and flat monthly rate.

HomeDSL 384, Telkom's middle-level broadband solution for those residential customers on the faster Internet lane, will be reduced from R449 to R359 a month.

The HomeDSL 512 and BusinessDSL 512 super-fast ADSL products - currently priced R599 and R699 per month respectively - will be reduced to R477 a month.

"Reducing the cost of all our ADSL products will pave the way for our existing customers to migrate to more speedy Internet access options. Equally, this will encourage those who have not yet entered the high-speed Internet space to take advantage of our low-access, yet high-speed HomeDSL 192 broadband solution," said Telkom's Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Nombulelo Moholi.

She said Telkom was mindful of the fact that the price decrease announcement would stimulate demand for the ADSL service, imploring new applicants to bear with the field operations team as they work flat out to improve installation levels. The good news though is that Telkom's ADSL Self-Install trials are nearing completion and would go a long way to assisting customers set up their broadband ADSL connections faster.

She added that Telkom's managed reduction of data and ADSL tariffs was one of the ways the company was contributing to reducing the cost of doing business in South Africa.
Issued by: Xolisa Vapi
Senior Specialist: Media Relations
Telkom SA (Ltd)
Tel: (012) 311 1050
Mobile 082 573 6772
Email: [email protected]
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Nope, that would just be the line. Then you still must add your phone line rental (the same physical line) and your ISP costs. Ouch, hey?
 
<Q>This ADSL product offering will now cost 18% less at R270 per month, allowing customers to surf the Internet and download content faster at this affordable and flat monthly rate.</Q>

Frucking liars !
 
Great, so instead of ripping us off a lot, they are ripping us off a bit less...
 
In the advert for the price cuts in the Sunday times, I love the final line: "Download music and movies in seconds not minutes, with Telkom HomeDSL!"
 
...low-access, yet high-speed HomeDSL 192 broadband solution," said Telkom's Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Nombulelo Moholi.
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high-speed 192k broadband... these people live in a fantasy world.

...imploring new applicants to bear with the field operations team as they work flat out to improve installation levels.
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Why don't you stop retrenching your employees then you cockbites!

She added that Telkom's managed reduction of data and ADSL tariffs was one of the ways the company was contributing to reducing the cost of doing business in South Africa.
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Gee thanks, you're such a sweetheart... somehow I don't feel my a-hole getting any smaller.
 
Dovi said:
In the advert for the price cuts in the Sunday times, I love the final line: "Download music and movies in seconds not minutes, with Telkom HomeDSL!"
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LOL are you serious? Can't anything be done to Telkom for saying that? (Legally)
 
I still think, that we should kill telkom employees and blow up the buildings & exchange boxes..

hear hear

the only way we gonna end this telkom monopoly is by taking them over
 
Jeeva said:
I still think, that we should kill telkom employees and blow up the buildings & exchange boxes..

hear hear

the only way we gonna end this telkom monopoly is by taking them over
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Maybe we should get the Oppenheimers to sponsor us or go on the JSE :D
 
Vodacom also claim that their 3G is high speed, oh and available anywhere in the country.

But, hey, most Telkom users use the phone to call their pets.

But the best thing Telkom have invented are motion stabilisers. Call a chap out of his bed in a little ship in a storm, get him to struggle into the command centre of a ship, and then either the storm stops instantaneously or the room compensates for some serious rolling. Not even the Starship Enterprise had this tech. Now if they could translate that to the building industry we'd never have to worry about earthquakes again.
 
Jeeva said:
I still think, that we should kill telkom employees and blow up the buildings & exchange boxes..

hear hear

the only way we gonna end this telkom monopoly is by taking them over
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I am in! :D :D :D
 
zoopedup.com said:
Home DSL - 192 - R270 (frm 01 Aug) All costs included? Then you still need a telephone line... ?
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Ha ha ha, are you living in South Africa :D
 
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