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martmeister
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I love the 99.5% uptime statement. That means an entire day of being offline in a year. How many sms's do they send in a day? They say 99.5% thinking it's pretty good.
They could probably do better with route diversity etc but it will cost more.
damian24
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99.999 will cost you double the price when you start routing via redundant exchanges and the like... and yes exchanges do occasially go down.
Personally, our own lease connection has been down a total of 8 days in 10 years and I I find it hard to believe it's all telkoms fault... funny that though, I never call call breakup an landline calls and whens the last time you had a dropped call fixed to fixed?
mobile to mobile all the time, isn;t that indicative of a tower issue?
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Straight from the bog at Telkodemonopolies - the stinky holy moley """truth""" is that the client is always wrong and Telkodemonopolies is always exactly 99.5% correct all of the time - in fact Telkodemonopolies has processes in place to degrade the service availability should it dare to attempt to exceed 99.5%...
Yeah I know.
It's not always Telkoms fault.
You will be amazed how many times fiber cables are broken by some indiot in a backhoe digging holes where he is not supposed to.
Then there is nature, heavy storms where trees fall over and break cables is just one of those things.
Eskom has also played it's role. Sometimes exchanges do loose power but the generators usually kick in but unfortunately with mechanical stuff things can go wrong even if meticulously maintained and they are. (Lol, you will crap yourself when one of those 12 cylinder mofo Rolls Royce engines kick in all of a sudden without you expecting it)
The we have the copper thieves.
My landline has been rock solid for years i would say. The times it did not work was because I did not pay the bill
Mobile to Mobile does still rely on Telkom infrastructure.
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The monopolistic beast is very experienced in one thing: incompetence - it is the one thing you can expect from Telkodemonopolies.
Abe
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coolbiscuit
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They All Suck
The Cellular companies say that they only have 1% dropped calls, that means that in 10 million calls, which is relatively little traffic in a day, 100 thousand people will have dropped calls, and do they get refunded that call, no f*king way, but the operators coin at least R100 000.
They are all out just to make money, and they don't care about consumers.
They all suck.
The Cellular companies say that they only have 1% dropped calls, that means that in 10 million calls, which is relatively little traffic in a day, 100 thousand people will have dropped calls, and do they get refunded that call, no f*king way, but the operators coin at least R100 000.
They are all out just to make money, and they don't care about consumers.
They all suck.
SteveO
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i'm not trying to defend the networks now, but seriously try to think about what you are saying here.The reason most people get dropped calls is because of failed handovers within the cellular network.Now try and think why this never happens in FIXED line network?....yes cos there is no radio link between your phone and the switching network.....dropped calls are pretty unavoidable at times due to location geography.
not quite sure who is to blame for all the network issues, but am sure it has to do with all the role players be it capacity problems due to poor coverage, poor backhaul from telkom and even land owners who refuse to have towers in the area.
Cellular networks by their nature are a best effort service.it cannot be guaranteed as fixed line can simply due to the environment and the effect it has on the air interface.
just my thoughts....