Misleading add from Telkom, Again

[georgelza]

Hi guys,

since we are talking about Telkom and their misleading adds, this is a link to their new 2GB package

http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/internet/2004/0409291231.asp?O=F&A=FIN

Theya re basically saying this and the HomeDSL384 together gives you everything you need for under R700, hmm. They must be forgetting the R80/month for voice which puts it over R700/month.

Definitely misleading public/false addvertising.

G

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[MaD]

Look, if the service was R199 it would be acceptable, but the line rental and the R80 phone rental buggers it all right up.

<font color="navy"><font size="1"><b>Where others have progress, we have Telkom.</b>
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[antowan]

Telkom still hasn't learned the vallue of vallue!

Until we do not have good competition, they don't have to...

Now the SNO has been delayed until November because of Nexus's crud! Another company looking for some serious flaming! If there is no price competition within a year from the SNO's start of business then we can start burning Telco boxes and destruction of their equipment. Then we need to become militant. But that we save for a later day...

Cheers
Antowan

### What we need in South Africa is cheap 24/7, always on Internet for under R300 a month. ###

 

[lewstherin]

antowan, no need to go so crazy...besides there are enough criminals ripping Telkom cabling out as it is []

Rather just begin building a public mesh...that way we own the network...and Telkom doesn't

<font color="blue">Telkom needs a leash, ICASA needs some guts, and the </font id="blue"><font color="red">SA consumer</font id="red"><font color="blue"> needs to make it happen</font id="blue">

 

[MaD]

Public mesh = good idea, no waiting 16 years for tech support we can just call a friend and tell em to bring a six pack and come around [8]

<font color="navy"><font size="1"><b>Where others have progress, we have Telkom.</b>
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[hArTh]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by MaD</i>
<br />Public mesh = good idea, no waiting 16 years for tech support we can just call a friend and tell em to bring a six pack and come around [8]

<font color="navy"><font size="1"><b>Where others have progress, we have Telkom.</b>
Hellkom website - www.hellkom.co.za</font id="size1"></font id="navy">
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May the light of wimax shine on our countenances before too long.

Telkom will prolly get the gov to ban the import of wimax cards though ... just like they did with wireless access points (for real).

wimax: &gt;2 km omni range without externally mounted antennas

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[georgelza]

guys, something to remember, our WiFi mesh nets will only allow us pnp connectivity, problem is we are still stuck with Telkom for now for international connectivity. same goes for Wimax it is basically just a replacement technolog for the last mile connectivity. somewhere this still needs to hook into a ISP for internation BW, what would be nice is if this is implemented by the ISP's like IS, that way they enable the man in the street to plug into their backbone and network using Wimax...

G

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[Spamtheman]

A possibility is then for WiFi Mesh's to bargain as a unit with upper tier ISP's for bandwidth. If you managed to get say 100 people in an area linked, you could then negotiate for a far better price structure than say 10 groups of 10.

 

[georgelza]

nice idea spam.

basically the users build their own last mile infrastructure and then as a unit bargain with ISP, should make for some interesting ideas/possibilities.

G

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