Telkom and Dotco Settle 30G ADSL issue

fair enough

stil well done to ayce for taking on the beast - costs a bucketload of money to litigate in the high court
 
Well, I will not complain on this.

Hopefully Ivy's speech will level the playground a bit, but we shall see.

It is expensive, and I won't expect from AYCE to take it any further.
 
What was it?
DotCo Settle out of Court,
Telkom Settle out of court

or Telkom paid Dotco so much cash to go away and let the issue go?
or dotCo didnt have a snowballs chance in hell so they let the issue go.
 
Well, the contract expired.

IMHO, there was nothing to go to court about. DotCo merely took telkom to court to 'delay' them paying per GB untill their contract expired. Both Telkom and DotCo knew their contracts are expiring (I'm sure), so IMHO, DotCo just used this fro a couple of months to continue their 30GB packages, and get a bit of good press out of it (taking telkom to court is deemed to go to press).

Marketing hype IMHO... Personally, I'm not to impressed.
 
savage, with 3 x IMHO in your short message -- let me just say you are full of shtt.

Dotco rocks. They fought Telkom when nobody else cared.
 
Yeah, to each his own I guess... Nice to see how you jump on your pony and give childish insults when you read something you don't like... But anyways ;)

I'm entitled to my opinion, if you don't agree with it so be it. If you can't deal with it, then rather refrain from showing everyone what big a child you are by insulting the ones that actually gives their opinion about something.
 
End the flaming :p

Fight Telkom, not each other. etc.

You did say IMHO quite often ^_^. Doesn't really matter though as you are entitled to your own opinion. I think the reality is that DotCo stood to lose a helluva lot of business/money from Telkom simply not giving a damn. I believe they took on the beast as both a marketing strategy (in which case good for them) and because they were super pissed off (in which case good for them) :)

Also:
Articleness said:
The AllYouCanEay ISP
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I'm sure that should be a T? :)
 
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savage said:
Well, the contract expired.

IMHO, there was nothing to go to court about. DotCo merely took telkom to court to 'delay' them paying per GB untill their contract expired. Both Telkom and DotCo knew their contracts are expiring (I'm sure), so IMHO, DotCo just used this fro a couple of months to continue their 30GB packages, and get a bit of good press out of it (taking telkom to court is deemed to go to press).

Marketing hype IMHO... Personally, I'm not to impressed.
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I fully agree with you savage, Dotco forgot to mentioned that the contract was going to expire so soon. They simply did it to retain (and gain) customers. Im sure Dotco now has a healthy customer base, and the broadband community is no better off.
 
November 2005 to May 2006 = 7 months.

7 months is more than just a couple of months.
 
All in all, I am a bit disapointed with the way this played out.

The best outcome for the human race would have been if Telkom was found guilty of violation of contract. This would have given other ISPs who entered into similar contracts with Telkom, leverage to offer higher cap accounts yet again.
 
Aah but that's not how the real world works :) Telkom can throw more money at a court case in one day than DotCo could afford in a month, perhaps even a year.

Doesn't matter if they're right or not.
 
costs in the high court can run up to 40 - 50k per day not counting the indirect costs to your business of lost time and productivity, so you do not want to go there without a sound strategic basis

a ruling that telkom had breached a contract would be worth very little as there is very little scope for precedent given the specialised nature of the contracts, their limted number and the fact that they probably all expired round about now

believe me that when you are weighing up your options and considering future intangibles like marketing benefits and client loyalty it takes huge courage to put your entire business at risk by taking telkom on

if it was their strategy to string things out (which i don't think it was as they tried to push it as a matter of urgency initially at least) then that is fine too
 
Well done to DotCo for winning the battle!

What's going to happen to all the 30GB AYCE users now? Are they all going to move over to Telkom now with the "sliding" soft-caps? That's kind of letting Telkom win it in the end isn't it?!

We really NEED ICASA to do something here for us consumers!!!
 
Why hasn't anyone asked what the settlement was. Or is it undisclosable as everything else with Telkom. Here goes: what was the settlement? Who paid who?
 
I'm guessing the settlement was that both of them call it quits, Dotco got their rightful 7 months discounted bandwidth and telkom came out without another blemish on their bullying reputation.
 
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