November 1st Doomsday

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donaldza

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Hey everyone,

I am also a high usage ADSL user and have a total of 3 30 Gig accounts for my business and we manage OK, reason for this is we do a lot of video conferencing and off site backups with our line.

What I want to know is, when SAIX/Telkom first came up with the pricing for these high cap accounts, ie R349 for 30 Gig accounts, I'm pretty sure there is no way they would have published those prices, if the prices didn't

A) At least cover costs
B) Make them a profit

What we are seeing here is just Telkom just saying to themselves 'Hey we can rip off the public again, lets do it!' As they saw the demand for these high cap accounts increase they just realised they can make some more quick money off the poor South African consumers until true competition arrives.

THERE IS NO WAY THEY WERE RUNNING AT A LOSS BEFORE

Telkom is essentially taking a service that costs them about R200 per month, and blowing out the price to R2000, why? Because they can and guess what, there's nothing we can do about it.

Just another case of Telkom not using lubrication with the consumer.

Donald Jackson

I saw this signature the other day, "I HATE TELKOM" I second that.
 
donaldza said:
What I want to know is, when SAIX/Telkom first came up with the pricing for these high cap accounts, ie R349 for 30 Gig accounts, I'm pretty sure there is no way they would have published those prices, if the prices didn't
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Unfortunately Telkom did not come up with those prices, it was the ISPs (That apparently are only paying for 3GB accounts and just not telling Telkom the account is capped before it reaches 30GB).
 
The bottom line is were being ripped off.
 
Hi Gangrel,

The prices of those high cap ISP's is based on a SAIX price given to them for High cap ADSL, but the ISP's must do their own authentication.

IE Saix provides reseller accounts at say R250 and Axxess for example resells for R350, just like normal 3 gig accounts but the ISP must do their own authentication.

Cheers,
Donald
 
There are many theories about the high cap ISP's but the main one is that they pay the R190 (same as 3GB) and do their own authentication. The theory is they found a loophole and Telkom basicallly said they were allowed to use it in the mean time (The reason most of them stated that thier pricing was only for a while and not garuanteed to stay even before the whole Nov1 thing hit).

I'm not saying this is true, but it is very believable.

And yes the bottom of the line is that we will be paying way too much (and are at the moment).... I did a small calculation for myself the other day and worked out that we will be paying about 8-9 times more for a 30GB account than what BTYahoo in the UK users pay.... and they get 2Mb line to boot.

Edit: corrected a typo on Mb (was originally MB).
 
donaldza said:
Hi Gangrel,

The prices of those high cap ISP's is based on a SAIX price given to them for High cap ADSL, but the ISP's must do their own authentication.

IE Saix provides reseller accounts at say R250 and Axxess for example resells for R350, just like normal 3 gig accounts but the ISP must do their own authentication.

Cheers,
Donald
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Incorrect really, it was allowed but it wasnt common practice, from the start it was only allowed for a short period of time. Since the introduction, all of these isp's knew allready about changes in November, thats why they limited it till November.
 
Where in the world would you have to pay R2000 (30GB) + R477 + R80 = R2557 for 512k ADSL? I can't see ICASA allowing this sort of thing.
R2557 for ADSL yeah right, can get it for R200-R300 in other countries. Cheaper to save up for 3 months and buy a plan ticket to another country and move there for ADSL.
 
And to think that Steven White of Telkom threatens to pull the plug on ADSL in SA through Telkom if the ICASA regulator forces them to drop these insane prices...

Stingy ****s.

I hope his house burns down tonight in his sleep.
 
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