Telkom and Capped accounts

[Bravo613]

I have been deciding on which ISP to use (when Telkom finally installs my line) I have heard from a couple of peaple that practically Telkom does not enforce caps. For example I was told by a friend on a 2 gig account he downloaded 9 gigs no problem, his theory was Telkom was doing this to annoy the other ISP's.

Is this a wide spread occurence or limited to the fortunate few?

 

[medicnick83]

Not anymore boet, I have a 3GB account and I get capped on 6GB.
I used to get to 9GB but not anymore.
ISP's have gotten VERY strict on caps, even the local accounts are strict.
But Telkom give you that extra leway so yeah.

 

[Rocket-Boy]

There are a few views on why they are allowing 6GB on 3GB accounts, it works out cheaper for a consumer to buy a 3GB account and get 6GB of data than for an ISP to buy it wholesale from Telkom. They probably cant advertise it as 6GB account for that reason.

Seems tho that the 1GB do1 packages are capped at 1GB.

Telkom were checking to see how if lines would be abused by running "relaxed capping" and giving a bit more data than was advertised...

 

[medicnick83]

Oh, just incase you're interested, I'm busy getting a new account (because I'm capped on my first account)

At Telkom, their packages are as follows:

1GB is R79
2GB is R149
3GB is R239
4GB is R489

I called 10219 (option 2) to get a 'top up' *sigh*

 

[flysouth]

Telkom cap is averaged globally over all capped ADSL accounts - i.e. Say Telkom has 150 000 clients on ADSL and monitors the overall useage for the client group. Since some will use next to nothing and others will go over the cap, it will happen that some months you can use way over the 3GB and other times not so. But I suspect that overall the ADSL clients, as a group, do not often get close to the global cap anyway, which is why I have heard of people using 20 - 30 GB in a month and getting away with it!

I am often over the cap by a gig or three - and have never been capped in two years - but I am not a serious abuser by any means!

 

[ldmelsa]

Telkom cap is averaged globally over all capped ADSL accounts - i.e. Say Telkom has 150 000 clients on ADSL and monitors the overall useage for the client group. Since some will use next to nothing and others will go over the cap, it will happen that some months you can use way over the 3GB and other times not so. But I suspect that overall the ADSL clients, as a group, do not often get close to the global cap anyway, which is why I have heard of people using 20 - 30 GB in a month and getting away with it!

I am often over the cap by a gig or three - and have never been capped in two years - but I am not a serious abuser by any means!

Not anymore!

 

[PostmanPot]

Global cap?

Where do you get this info from, flysouth?

I don't believe that people can go over their caps because others do not reach theirs.

It's simply Telkom anti-competitive behaviour...