Phoning

[istari]

hi everyone

I don't have an ADSL line but am interested in getting one.
I've pretty much picked up on this and just wanted to double check.

Are you billed extra for using the phone with your adsl line?

istari

 

[Andre]

Yes.

 

[freeek]

You can use the phone with an adsl line? Don't you need a seperate line for that? Do you need a digital phone?

..- dot dot dash

 

[PierreLeRiche]

It's one line. The ADSL itself doesn't use the lower frequencies used by ordinary telephone equipment, so you can connect an ordinary telephone to the same line that you use for your ADSL modem and they won't affect each other at all. The only requirement is to use a low-pass filter between you ADSL line and your ordinary telephone. Telkom usually provides one with the modem.

 

[freeek]

kewl! That makes things interesting, so hopefully in june or so competition will drive telkom to bring adsl to about R400 a month and that will be a promising deal for me

..- dot dot dash

 

[PierreLeRiche]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by freeek</i>
<br />competition will drive telkom to bring adsl to about R400 a month
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I would be very surprised if Telkom were to do that. The most I'm hoping for is for them to raise the cap to something more reasonable, and maybe to drop the port shaping - but that may be pushing it.

Let's hope I'm wrong and you're right...

 

[istari]

well, thanks for the help.

 

[GhostMan]

Don't you love the free world... you can rant and rave all you like, but there's some fat cat bastard up there, dumb as a bag of hammers who just doesn't care what you think or say, but is happy to steal your money every month... South African adsl (l)users are getting their pockets picked every day.

GhostMan

 

[Strobemeister]

Hear Hear.
I totally agree with Ghostman & PierreLeRiche. The Telscum hierarchy and their shareholders are laughing all the way to the bank and don't give a rats about complaints about their adsl service(used very liberally). At least, thats the impression i get. I got back from europe in july & have been hanging round waiting for things to improve b4 taking the plunge, but instead i've gone for isdn, as i don't see any indicators for improvement in the near future. The worst thing about the whole scenario is that I'm now supporting the very same company that's shafting everyone by going isdn. But what can you do except wait for the day that i can close my telscum account completely when some decent competition arrives.

Telkom - South Africa's Handbrake to progress.