Telkom 1Mbps ADSL in June...

[antowan]

/me tells hArth not to hog the virtual dooby! RPM stop smiling like that!

Is it just me or are you guys also hungry all of a sudden??!!?

 

[Andre]

My guess - R1200 all incl. for a 1mb business DSL line.

If that's the case then sign me up. I hope that they offer it to residential users too.

 

[Gaz{M}]

He does say that the pricing of 1Meg will not be "linearly" related to the "other offerings".
ie: R599 for 512K and R1198 for 1Meg. So that means 1Meg will be R1197.99. There, that's not linear.

ps: We don't need FASTER dsl just yet, we need more DATA for LESS MONEY. If you already d/l at 50K/sec, why would you want 100K/sec at home specifically. I'd rather have a much bigger cap or no cap at all since 512K can get you 130Gigs a month and that means buying more harddrives (or DVD-R's)

 

[IceQB]

True!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[kilps]

True!

This could go down well with schools - only thing would be a cap (at our school they would reach 3GB in about 5 hours )

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

That's why the school should get uncapped ADSL...

 

[IceQB]

pray tell.....where?
not here in ZA!!!
friend in sweden just upgraded his 1mbs line to 10mbs for $10.
and he pay about $100 for it..UNCAPPED...
and telskum say they are offering broadband

 

[Scott]

 

[kilps]

pray tell.....where?
not here in ZA!!!
friend in sweden just upgraded his 1mbs line to 10mbs for $10.
and he pay about $100 for it..UNCAPPED...
and telskum say they are offering broadband

someone mention THAT at the hearings

 

[Kalvaer]

Just who are they targeting then!

Telkom to debut 1Mbps service in June

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"Steven White, Telkom's executive for new product development, says the offering will be aimed at the small to medium business market, although it could also be opened up to the residential market, if there is interest"

Telkom ADSL ‘not for bandwidth hogs'

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"Roberts told the panel that Telkom's shaped ADSL offering was targeted at small business and the higher end of the residential market with a moderate volume of Internet traffic. The unshaped offering provides a service in which all protocols share the available bandwidth equally. "

Ok so the current 512k service is for the small business and "higher end" Residential... The new 1 meg services is for small to medium business' and maybe residential... I'm confused

 

[CrazyMadMan]

no no you are not the confused one, Tel*** is

 

[Kei]

Telkom doesnt know it's arse from it's elbow

 

[eye_suc]

They know how to make money though, albeit a bit scaly

 

[rpm]

Hong Kong Broadband Launches 1 Gbps Home Service for US$215/month

http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=266

 

[arf9999]

$215 = R1300

Hmmm... 200,000% faster than Telkom at 50% higher price.

 

[Vio]

Well, not realy 50% higher price if you consider uncapped

 

[BTTB]

Well, not realy 50% higher price if you consider uncapped

True.
I wonder how long it would take to break the 3 GB Cap with a 1 GB connection.
How does the formula go?
Would it be 3 Minutes perhaps?

 

[arf9999]

8 seconds per GB, therefore to reach 3GB = 24 seconds.

edit: "Right, a new month and a new cap, let's start downloading...oh damn capped!"

 

[BTTB]

24 Seconds. OMG.

 

[biltonguy]

That makes telkom look like ****, well anything does really...

Thats a pretty hard hitting fact to put through to Icasa.

Telkom's 512k ADSL costs the customer +-R900pm...

A provider in Hong Kong is offering a service that costs just R400 more yet is 2000x faster (yes, two thousand times) and could reach telkom's 3GB cap in just 24 seconds.

Thanks telkom