<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by pat22</i>
<br />I joined this forum as I wanted ADSL and needed to know more.
Having read comments here I no longer want it. Telkom can keep it. I am not spending R800 per month for such a poor product and service, with unknown difficulties lurking around every other corner.
Look at ADSL abroad, how it has totally revolutionised the internet and more to the point business and education opportunities.
Even 24/7 unmetered services make a huge huge difference. Wouldn’t it be great if your child could research that project online straight from school and not worry about that phone bill - ADSL or no ADSL.
But no. For Telkom not to have introduced decent dial up access packages is criminal.
The solution? There is none. Unless the ANC do something nothing will change.
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We feel your pain.
I know personally of 2 friends who wont get ADSL, but however they do have ISDN. Their phone bills are more or less the same as my ADSL account so their is little reason for them to change. They might of changed to ADSL if it were not for the 3 GIG Cap we all are so peeved about. I remember the one fellow a year ago got a call from Telkom with one of their marketing investigations and one of the things he said to them is he would like broadband. Now its here .But I have been filling him in with the details and he is rather going to wait. He like many others dont like to rant and rather wait for another day. This type of attitude does work with many things in life as you never "sweat" about anything. But I however dont share this view, especially when its obvious to all and sundry that we are being ripped off.
My 2 children, grade 10 and 7 use the internet constantly for their projects. Before we had to wait until 7pm to log on for the R7 plan, but now I have to tell my daughter she cannot download things she wants as we might overstep the 3 gigs before the end of the month. So we wait until the end of the month to see if their is anything left of the precious 3 gigs before we can download. So the children are left mainly to browse and printout what they need.
I however have never been capped yet as I limit myself. But it is a real pain. As their are files I would like but I cannot downlaod them so early in the month as not to overstep my 100MB daily average. I would like to downlaod the new 400MB WindowsXP 64 bit trial, but geuss what, I must wait until the end of the month to see if this is possible. This month I doubt it as I am over my daily limit of 100MB and I need to format and upgrade one machine which will take 200 or so MB. So I feel very limited.
<font color="blue">Im sorry, but on principle I will not buy an extra 3 gigs</font id="blue">
Telkom can forget.
I can see from just the comparison of the ISDN and ADSL cost I mentioned above that one may deduce some sort of manipulation from Telkom. They are still selling ISDN as their main internet connection. I reckon their theory is, more calls = more money. So why should telkom worry about ADSL users when they can receive theoretically more cash from ISDN. But we say is why would anyone want ISDN, when ADSL is available. Also if you connect on ISDN for a weekend (7pm Friday to 7am Monday) for R7, you can download several 100 Megs of data in that period. More than we can on average(100MB with ADSL per day). This and the other reasons that all the people on this forum mention is why their is only 10000 ADSL users so far. ADSL isnt worth it yet.
Im afraid the truth is evident <font color="red">Telkom is holding the internet back in South Africa for their own profit.</font id="red">
But what gets me really the moer in is they can hold me back, but they are holding my children back too. The children cannot experience what it is like to be able to have freedom of choice. We are limited to 100Mb of data per day. Thank you Telkom.
I must go work now.
<b><hr noshade size="1"></b><font size="2"><font color="red"><b>You can take Telkom out of the Post Office but you can't take the Post Office out of Telkom.</b></font id="red"></font id="size2">
I know you said, on principle, but its for tha kiddies! SHAW!
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