Not happy with the ADSL prices?

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If you are not happy with the new adsl prices that begin in November, then the best thing to do is to cancel and select a non Telkom service such as wireless (legal or illegal).

The best way to have your voice heard is to hit telkom in the wallet. If you cancel your service effective November 1, 2005 it will show that you are not going to take the increases and they can stick it.

The best way to do this is for as many people as possible to submit their request with the 1st as the cancel date. It will fill the queue with cancellation orders and will increase the volume of support tickets for the exchanges. This volume is watched by senior telkom management and when it exceeds certain levels management starts asking why. They will immediately see a large drop in income and will have to react to the situation.

It is a boycott of sort.
 
I was thinking we should create mini banner thingys for websites and everyone who has a site should put it on and link back to myadsl or so..

online awareness :)
 
Well for some businesses this is simply not an option. They need VoIP, a constant online connection etc.

Secondly rather than cancelling, MyADSL should draw attention to it (as we're currently doing through the Sunday Times initiative.)
 
i too need a permanent connection and i can't afford diginet. by people boycotting adsl, it will simply be a pinch on the arse for telkom, it wouldn't hurt them much - they already make a killing with diginet and phone calls alone. if we have maybe 1 million+ adsl subscribers then maybe it would be a good idea to boycott.

in any case as we all know, if they lose revenue with one thing, they simply jack up the rates of everything else to cover up for it. why? simply because they can. sure theres the whole basket thing - but as we've seen they lower the rates of services which a small percentage of people use, and then hike the rates of services which the majority use.

dominic is right, we should rather bring it to the attention of the public, especially those who cannot afford adsl. explain to them how the masses overseas get adsl dirt cheap, and how we are being denied access to affordable, fast internet. let them know how telkom is denying their kids access to information. get the masses p!ssed off, and then we have a better chance of effective results.
 
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I agree, some people or businesses can't. I may cancel the lines we have including the analogue phone portion, but we only hit the cap after the 23rd of the month or so. It is only used for mail inbound traffic and temporary failover for browsing and we average about 40-50k messages a month on each.

I have spent almost R10k in equipment to run the ADSL service including the cisco 2600 routers and WIC-1ADSL modules.
 
I'm thinking that these rates are a knee jerk reaction to ICASA and its findings.
It smacks of Telkom showing how it can wield it's monopoly as it wishes to.

If anything, it's a challenge for ICASA and in fact, our democracy. If ICASA fails to bring Telkom in line, we can be sure that there is no hope for reasonable telecoms rates even with a SNO.

What Telkom have effectively done, is to pull a big zap and say "try me" - lets hope that ICASA will rise to the occasion and slap this nasty company silly.
 
I am also at a point to cancel ADSL, but what will be the alternative? My wallet does not support any wireless or satellite option. So, no more internet for me or back to the "roots" (dialup). Its just a shame and its very sad.
 
Why Now Telkom ????

Reading a thread a moment ago it stated that telkom wants to cancel their ADSL service(of 100 000 members) if IASCA controls their pricing and so on.
[thats the whole idea-to have the prices lowered and the cap removed]
Well that is absolute #$%#$% *!! Telkom should go right ahead(after the SNO their adsl in service) . SNO already stated more competive packages! This whole idea of having Capped limits should be ablolished by the end of the year. Telkom is just making more money! Beleive me, I personally experienced it. I UNFORTUANATELY have a dial up (isdn,adsl-all toooo affordable) my internet continued to get disconnected after 6-12 hours of internet use. After drilling my ISP they pointed blame to TELKOM. After the scores of calls to telkoms fault service .I eventually was told the following :

1.) THe problem will be sorted out in 48 hours
60 hours later... (another call made to them)

2.)lay the complaint again
24 hours later -no technician came...

3.)Called again -Received a long epic tale about my line was DOWNGRADED cos they thought i never use the internet,then they told me of move up to ADSL (so they will make more money!!!! ). After refusing i was told that I could do nothing else as the increase in phone lines being installed meant by speed and stability of my line will decrease. I have being using dialip for over 4 years.
Why now TELKOM ???

BYE BYE TELKOM!!!!>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>HELLO SNO!!!!
 
Hello Who? Oh SNO.. Sorry buddy, there is no SNO here, only cold weather.
 
Good luck trying to get people to cancel a service that is, without a doubt, still the best quality of connectivity in the country for the price. The rest are just not worth the money.

Even at 3Gig, it would still be more reliable, and cheaper than 90% of the crap that's being sold in this country at the moment.

You obviously haven't looked at the alternatives with a good magnifying glass...
 
TheRoDent is correct. ADSL is currently a pretty good service. It is just overpriced and ICASA exists to protect us against the harsh realities of living with a company in an environment totally devoid of any form of real competition. We should not have to boycott. ICASA needs to do their job and nail Telkom.
 
It is the best priced option that is widely available..

There are other options if you need more than 3gigs..

There is a wireless option for 512k 10:1 ratio and unlimited use for about R1k .. You can select other speeds and pick your contention ratio starting at about R400 per month total.

Of course these are not advertised highly, but are mentioned on the forums here.. I may even start selling the product line myself.. It gives me the ability to use the providers network or via a point to point to mine..

This may not be an option for many, but is an option for some to say good-bye to telkom..
 
TheRoDent said:
Good luck trying to get people to cancel a service that is, without a doubt, still the best quality of connectivity in the country for the price. The rest are just not worth the money.

Even at 3Gig, it would still be more reliable, and cheaper than 90% of the crap that's being sold in this country at the moment.

You obviously haven't looked at the alternatives with a good magnifying glass...
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Yup.

e.g.

MyWireless flexi Packages
MyWireless flexi is available in a range of packages to suit your individual needs. Starting from monthly packages of just 200MB of data – sufficient for the average home user
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That is retarded.
 
antowan said:
TheRoDent is correct. ADSL is currently a pretty good service. It is just overpriced and ICASA exists to protect us against the harsh realities of living with a company in an environment totally devoid of any form of real competition. We should not have to boycott. ICASA needs to do their job and nail Telkom.
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ICASA are (supposed to be) a regulatory body - not consumer protection. Some of their roles will have the effect of "protecting" consumers but thats not why they are there.

And ICASA should keep their noses out of it.
 
This place grows in "wise guy" concentration every day.

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) is the regulator of telecommunications and the broadcasting sectors. It was established in July 2000 in terms of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa Act No.13 of 2000. It took over the functions of two previous regulators, the South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (SATRA) and the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA). The two bodies were merged into ICASA to facilitate effective and seamless regulation of telecommunications and broadcasting and to accommodate the convergence of technologies.
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Their decision to become a gateway for consumer lobying is beyond their intial functions, namely that of SATRA and IBA.

ICASA derives its mandate from four statutes. These are the ICASA Act of 2000, The Independent Broadcasting Act of 1993, the Broadcasting Act of 1999 and the Telecommunications Authority Act No. 103 of 1996.
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Namely, to enforce *these* acts, not be party to consumers demanding random things - that is the job of the elected DoC.

I fail to see the logic behind pushing ICASA to enforce further regulation and general hand waving when it is lack of regulation that provides market freedom.
 
Hey I'm just quoting what they said; as far as I'm concerned they *should* be there to ensure equitable distribution of and access to communications services - their role in protecting the consumer is implicit - there's no point in regulation if it isn't for the public good. Our demands are certainly not random. I don't see price regulation as the cure-all for our bandwidth woes - regulation of telkom pricing structures should be an interim measure - pending true deregulation and an open and competitive market.
 
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