Telkom ADSL makes business difficult

[kaspaas]

Telkom makes doing business in line with international norms difficult.

Firstly, we are suffering regular 5 minute service disruptions - wasting time of staff.

Second it is unaffordable to keep off-site backups of data - as our international competitors do. It is simply too expensive to run an automated backup system keeping around 5GB backed up on an off-site server. I would have loved to back my data up on a virtual server somewhere in the USA. But even doing it for such a trivial amount of data, Telkom charges too much to make it viable. Guess who will get the job: SA company: we do daily backups by creating a DVD which is taken of site by an employee. Or European company: We have automated systems that create daily backups of our data on a server in another continent. The process requires no human input, and is monitored daily.


Telkom's inability to manage their affairs in a manner that allows affordable ADSL is killing the country.

 

[bekdik]

Telkom makes doing business in line with international norms difficult.

@KAS:
Absolutely disagree. The make it frigging impossible!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[AdLo]

Telkom is just trying to protect its Diginet business by making ADSL as k@k as possible.

 

[sunsoffun]

I can wait until WiFi and power lines become the real deal, never mind Eskoms dark fiber that is waiting to be lit up.

Telkom diginet business is over. Homes will be able to get a prober broadband line without having to go via Telkom.

International connection is the problem.... for now!

 

[Silent_Bob]

^^^ i cant wait for that !!!

 

[thedoc!]

Gents - seems that telkom is not hard capping Telkom Internet subscribers, isnt this in our favor to use as much bandwidth we can, while we can, do the backups over the internet on a US site like you want to?
/doc

 

[RazorSA]

until the cap.

Then ... ????