Telkom Internet ADSL ISP pricing comparison

This is mildly good news, at least thing are moving forward.

Hopefully, though, 2012 is the year mybroadband gets to report on telkom lowering the price of line rental. The 4 meg uncapped account is also something to look forward to.

I wonder in which month itll happen?
 
It would be great if Telkom actually allowed people to subscribe though.

Can't reach anyone, get an order date - nothing. Appears they don't want business.

Now if I look at MWEB, the minute I posted I got a reply from the rep saying I could try a trial line to check the package et
 
lol@caps. If you are still on capped internet then I pity you. I remember what it was like to be capped. The dread that it would run out. Fair enough the caps are bigger now, but still. I will not voluntarily go back to a cap. And certainly not a contract.
 
Qwikslver said:
It's a 20gig package, not 200gig gig. So I'll be staying on uncapped.
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I thought so too. The price for 20GB is basically the same as uncapped 384kbps. So why choose the cap? If people want only 20GB for cheap and with fast speeds just go for 8ta 2x10GB pm = R398. ADSL 4Mb/10Mb costs over R700 for 20GB.
 
Regarding the first entry in the table (@tlantic***, 1GB package), how can the cost per GB be R15 and the first GB is free? Doesn't make sense...

I like the layout of this table. Good job.
 
SaiyanZ said:
I thought so too. The price for 20GB is basically the same as uncapped 384kbps. So why choose the cap? If people want only 20GB for cheap and with fast speeds just go for 8ta 2x10GB pm = R398. ADSL 4Mb/10Mb costs over R700 for 20GB.
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Gaming latency.
 
Sodan said:
Gaming latency.
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Latency isn't so bad on some of the 3G providers. I used to get 200-300ms ping to JHB a couple of years ago on Vodacom. That was bad. Not sure what people are getting these days on Vodacom. With my 8ta connection I'm getting 25ms ping to CPT servers and 55ms ping to JHB servers. Sometimes it goes up to 90ms. I've never had a ping test give me over 100ms to JHB.
 
This well all good and well doesnt change the fact that a 1mbps line costs around R400 per month before ANY data flows. This access fee is to allow us to access Telkoms aging , congested crap copper network which in my experience at dozens of locations does not deliver the advertised speeds.

Once this starts changing we will see some serious pricing competetion
 
SaiyanZ said:
Latency isn't so bad on some of the 3G providers. I used to get 200-300ms ping to JHB a couple of years ago on Vodacom. That was bad. Not sure what people are getting these days on Vodacom. With my 8ta connection I'm getting 25ms ping to CPT servers and 55ms ping to JHB servers. Sometimes it goes up to 90ms. I've never had a ping test give me over 100ms to JHB.
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I meant internationally.
 
The fat lady doesn't really have to compete if 90% of all adsl costs end up in her voluptious bossoms anyway, but she is bleeding adsl users so I guess this is like a little band-aid to prevent the worst of it.
Still, I was considering dropping Telkom as a backup to save the 200 bucks but I'm now slightly more tempted to keep her, as a concubine of course.
 
evilstebunny said:
The fat lady doesn't really have to compete if 90% of all adsl costs end up in her voluptious bossoms anyway, but she is bleeding adsl users so I guess this is like a little band-aid to prevent the worst of it.
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Just remember, It ain't over until the fat lady sings!
 
So the price per gig on local bandwidth is more expensive than the price per gig for international on the 20GB account (R11.95), if you exceed you local limit after being capped on international:

As per titracker:

Friendly reminder: As you will not be capped on local bandwidth, we reserve the right to bill you for usage exceeding the allocated local bandwidth on promotion. The charge for local bandwidth is R15.00 per gig.To read more please visit our website www.telkomsa.net

Sad, but true.
 
I get the feeling data costs are beginning to reach a lower limit - the BIG problem is still the absurd line rental and ADSL fee.
 
IdlePhaedrus said:
So the price per gig on local bandwidth is more expensive than the price per gig for international on the 20GB account (R11.95), if you exceed you local limit after being capped on international:
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You are comparing in-bundle blended with out-of-bundle local. Out-of-bundle blended is substantially more than R15/GB.
 
BGE said:
Seriously... how "seperate" do you really think they are?
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All TI pricing is done based on SAIX Wholesale pricing, which is available to any ISP.

But, TI doesn't have the option of selecting competing upstream providers ...
 
You forgot to take into account that all Afrihost capped accounts get a free GB which people can activate in their clientzone.

So Afrihost's 1GB package should read:

Afrihost* 1GB R29.00 R14.50
 
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