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Hi Guys

has anyone ever thought of this,

IF it is true that ISP's were buying a 3 gb account and passing it as a 30 Gb that means that some of them were making as much as 100 % profit.

And we accuse Telkom of being greedy ...the only ISp that passed savings to the consumer was then Webafrica..Am I right here...

Diddy
 
I don't believe Telkom, and even if I did, the deals being offered were better than Telkom's, regardless of what profit they were taking.

The fact that DOTCO got their temporary interdict makes me think that there was definitely an understanding of the 30gb, otherwise they'd have been tossed out on their a.s.s. Even if you believe that Telkom somehow delayed proceedings until 5/12, why would they if 30gb wasn't on paper?
 
Yes , but Telkoms allegation was that they were buying a 3 Gb account and selling it as 30 Gb so I got 30 Gb traffic but I paid the price of 3 GB,so those
resellers who were selling 30 Gb for R299 and R399 were really making a killing.

Come on it makes sense.
 
nivashnin said:
Yes , but Telkoms allegation was that they were buying a 3 Gb account and selling it as 30 Gb so I got 30 Gb traffic but I paid the price of 3 GB,so those
resellers who were selling 30 Gb for R299 and R399 were really making a killing.

Come on it makes sense.
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No company in their right mind will willingly take a loss if it can be prevented.

==> Telkom are bullsh*tting

QED
 
If Telkom wanted to do something about it they could have done it in two minutes. They are just bul****ing.
 
Kropotkin said:
No company in their right mind will willingly take a loss if it can be prevented.
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Its a bit more complicated than that.

AYCE started out selling fully uncapped ... where do you think the name 'All you can eat' comes from.

How could they do it? .... cause Telkom cant technically differentiate between international & local traffic (from their radius logs). So when tackled by Telkom why some of their users were using large amounts of traffic, they protested that it was local traffic only.

I'm guessing Telkom agreed to them providing 30Gigs to stop the potential massive bleeding that widspread use of uncapped would produce.

Go look at AYCE's home page .... they proudly display the top 10 leeches of the day. Currently no.1 is at 6.5Gigs for the last 24hr ... now imagine if 1000s of users were doing 200Gigs per month. No wonder Telkom got worried and agreed to 30Gig accounts.

Kropotkin said:
==> Telkom are bullsh*tting
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We'll hopefully see on Dec 5.
 
That's the problem with Telkom's mindset...they're trying to convince everyone (and themselves) that high bandwidth usage is a bad thing.
 
Roman4604 said:
.... they proudly display the top 10 leeches of the day. Currently no.1 is at 6.5Gigs for the last 24hr ...
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We prefer to call our subscribers Heroes. ;-)
 
allyoucaneat said:
We prefer to call our subscribers Heroes. ;-)
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Heroes they are, and will be, up till 1/11 (make that 2/11) - we will remember them ;)

...buy a 10GB account and use 6.5GB a day...mmmmm...knackered your limit on the second day...now what can I do for the rest of the month - I know, let's see how fast I can refresh www.google.co.za, I think the record is 3 times a second... :D
 
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@allyoucaneat

For your sake, hope you were sharp enough to bamboozle Telkom into signing an agreement they would have never signed in hindsight.
 
howardb said:
Heroes they are, and will be, up till 1/11 (make that 2/11) - we will remember them ;)

...buy a 10GB account and use 6.5GB a day...mmmmm...knackered your limit on the second day...now what can I do for the rest of the month - I know, let's see how fast I can refresh www.google.co.za, I think the record is 3 times a second... :D
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With a hardcap you cant really refresh google.co.za, plus with a normal cap you cant either since its hosted overseas ;-)

I would say, 0 times a cap.
 
Clipse said:
With a hardcap you cant really refresh google.co.za, plus with a normal cap you cant either since its hosted overseas ;-)

I would say, 0 times a cap.
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...bugger...bugger...bugger!!! :D
 
Will i heard that Telkom found out what all these ISP's were doing and thats y the hard capping is coming in to plan and they therefor will not be hard capping.. That is what i heard..
 
Is it just me or did that make no sense?

now imagine if 1000s of users were doing 200Gigs per month
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Yeah. Imagine it... must be Telkom's worst nightmare. Thousands of users getting what they paid for, the network operating at optimum efficiency, people actually happy with their broadband.

Wow. ^_^
 
AntiThesis said:
Is it just me or did that make no sense?


Yeah. Imagine it... must be Telkom's worst nightmare. Thousands of users getting what they paid for, the network operating at optimum efficiency, people actually happy with their broadband.

Wow. ^_^
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There is no ways that 1000s of people would be able to download 200 gigs a month, the network wouldn't be able to handle it. The only reason why UK USA China Japan can do this because they have lots of under sea cables i donno the exact number but many times more than what SA has running in to it. As well as there Telco infrastructure being much denser and sophisticated. Imagine the congestion on the IS/SAIX peering link if 1000s of people were to download that much between each other... I don't think anything above 50-60 gig a month would be realistic for everyone on the network. But i do think that 3gig is way below what it is capable of.
 
Telkom is hardcapping to make more money. Simple as that. They feel nothing for SA, their clients, etc. But the beast will fall ... I wish I could do 6 gigs a day if I wanted to.
 
"How could they do it? .... cause Telkom cant technically differentiate between international & local traffic (from their radius logs). So when tackled by Telkom why some of their users were using large amounts of traffic, they protested that it was local traffic only."

So telkom was basically trusting isp's to keep customers within the 3gb cap? And AYCE was basically lying to telkom sayin "its all local i swear" knowing telkom couldnt prove them wrong? ?
 
biltonguy said:
So telkom was basically trusting isp's to keep customers within the 3gb cap? And AYCE was basically lying to telkom sayin "its all local i swear" knowing telkom couldnt prove them wrong? ?
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Exactly ... why do you think none of the larger reputible ISPs sold 30Gig accounts ... its called ethics.
 
There were agreements between Telkom and the ISP`s. I know a couple of ISP owners who have them.
 
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