Skype to be shaped by Telkom

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caramel said:
telkom telkom! bunch of loosers and ripp offs of the south african public! they have to keep competition out as every single south african is so sick and tired of telkom... everybody has had a bad experience with telkom before be it from calling 1023, adsl connections, absorbetant prices or just plain unproffesionalism... sa people have been exposed to the above at least 1 times in their lives....
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Ye right

Surely this would justify a complaint to ICASA considering telkom would be deliberately trying to thwart recent legalization of VOIP by the government. Talk about an un-level playing field.
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Ye right complain to the toothless wonder!! Fat lot of good that will do.
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How are they going to prove the allegations?:eek:
 
w1z4rd said:
Okay, just got off the phone from an undercover Telkom person. Sype is to be shaped (heavily). That has nothing to do with what port it uses, but every thing to do with packet headers.

So expect your Skype to go pear shaped. Im sure this is anti competive behaviour. I run a skype phone at home (cheaper prices, and i dont suffer from a degraded service), so this is going to effect me.
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How about MTN? It seems they don't allows any VOIP calls in their Network.
 
Tell Icasa

Franna said:
This is bad news...

The easiest way to shape Skype VOIP traffic is to give a low priority to the ports used by the software.

But why not configure Skype with the ports used by Telkom Communicator, as it apparantly does not shape its own VOIP software?

This may be an option - but would Telkom be that stupid!

My guess is that Telkom have implemented a OSI Layer 7 deep-packet filter appliance (like the NetEnforcer from Allot) to control P2P abuse and limit the use of other VOIP software clients like Skype to give it an unfair advantage.

This is just outrageous. We must do everything in our power to stop Telkom from shaping ADSL traffic. It is totally unacceptable!!!!!!!!!!

I mentioned the same thing earlier today: With the new per-gig billing proposal for November 2005, why the hell must they port shape. Surely you can do with your 1 Gig as you please.


More info about NetEnforcer:
http://www.allot.com/html/products_netenforcer.shtm
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I believe that ICASA would not permit this sort of treatment which smacks of 1984. They have no right to affect any transmission you make - it is written in the communications act. You might not believe this but if any professional service interferes with an amateur radio signal the perpetrators will be punished. Telkom will be interfering with my signal going out and possibly my reception. IT IS TOTALLY ILLEGAL.
 
guys telkom sucks, yes it true.

find all the bad sites created sbout them. they dont really have any competition, thats y they are so SH*T expensive
 
This really is bad, a lot of companies rely on skype for int calling, sigh @ Telkom.
 
against the law?

Yes I believe Geofft is correct - they are not allowed to interfere!
 
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