Telkom ADSL speed upgrade planned

My guess is that 2meg will be dropped with 4 Meg being the entry point at a lower price and 10 Meg will get a small price reduction to say the existing 4meg price.
 
znh said:
Had the same issue, till I Telkom_ZA sorted this out for me, I was too far from the exchange and my line was moved to different exchange.... now happy on my 10Mbps line. Would take 20mbps if it was available.
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Telkom_ZA only selective help those they want to and make it as if they doing you a favour and not actually their jobs to help a PAYING customer. So me, they/he will never help and he can shove his help for all I care.
 
If this means i'm going to pay less for my current 4meg rental then awesome ! Maybe 10Meg will be my next stop since I seem to be syncing at the full 4meg without a problem currently and my exchange goes upto 10. Too early to conclude though :)
 
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Awesome-ish.

WHat good is it if the vast majority of people can only connect at 4mb due to the lackluster exchanges.
 
Why the jump from 4Mb to 10Mb? Would 6Mb and 8Mb speeds not make sense?
 
MickeyD said:
The concept is to decrease the number of products.
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That's fine in theory, but line quality forces you to go to those speeds in any case.
Adding additional speeds should not be an issue since the speed ("product") is just a configuration item, not HW.
 
MickeyD said:
Previous upgrades required little or no prep work. This time it is different.

Before they can go ahead they have to replace the ATM backhaul links with metro-ethernet links. In some cases they also have to replace backplanes on the exchange equipment to enable improved backhaul speeds.

This why it has been pushed out from the original December date...
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So would this enable current 4mpbs exchanges to upgrade to 10mbps or better?
 
Impulse_One said:
One plan. Customer chooses the speed. Calculate Rxxx.xx per megabit. Done.
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Look they can't really do that as it doesn't line up with the way their costs work. There are a lot of fixed costs involved, so the idea is always going to be about making the upsell to the next plan as tempting as possible so as to get more money out. "You're paying R425 per month for a 10Mbps connection, but if you just spend R74 more you can double your speed!". The actual cost to them for providing that extra data is negligible vs having to pay off the MSAN, MetroEthernet and your local loop which have all already had to be paid for.
 
km2 said:
Look they can't really do that as it doesn't line up with the way their costs work. There are a lot of fixed costs involved, so the idea is always going to be about making the upsell to the next plan as tempting as possible so as to get more money out. "You're paying R425 per month for a 10Mbps connection, but if you just spend R74 more you can double your speed!". The actual cost to them for providing that extra data is negligible vs having to pay off the MSAN, MetroEthernet and your local loop which have all already had to be paid for.
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Don't confuse cash flow and asset depreciation....
 
Gathu said:
So would this enable current 4mpbs exchanges to upgrade to 10mbps or better?
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It depends on the mix of DSLAMs/IMAXs/MSANs/ISAMs in the exchange. If you only have the oldest type of DSLAM in your exchange then the maximum you will get is 4Mbps.
 
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