Telkom Internet does not implement hard cap

toldya they wouldnt have the system in place. maybe in 3-4 months .. its just a case of them being useless to their own detriment...again
 
Typical anti competitive behaviour from Telkom. You can always expect the worst from them... :mad:

Hope you dotco guys nail the bastards. :D
 
I find this absolutely outrageous!!!!!!!!!!!
Can't they get arrested for this???
 
They will probably try claim that it was the ISPs (bandwidth resellers) that decided to hardcap out of their own free will (kinda like they decided to give us 30GB accounts).
 
They could argue that they have done an analysis and their total bandwidth usage means that their customers that do not reach their cap will provide sufficient excess bandwidth to cover those customers that do. Legally they, and any other ISP, are entitled to do this.
The only differnece is that every other ISP doesn't have the billion rand profits of Telkom to bail them out if their maths is wrong.
 
Well, I for one hope they dont start to hardcap. I hardly use any international bandwidth at all. It is not fair to hardcap because in doing so means that local and international bandwidth is treated the same way.

Secondly, I think a lot of people just think that when it comes to telkom, everything they do is anticompetitive. For me, you have to examine the rules and see if they following the same set as every other ISP. I have posted about this many times, but it seems to be ignored. In this case, I think it is difficult to prove that they do not follow the same set of rules, especially if the total bandwidth used does not exceed the bandwidth allocated per user times the number of users.
 
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I don't believe that Telkom should be allowed to retail softcaps to consumers and wholesale hardcaps to ISPs.
 
well spindrift ... nobody wants the hardcapping ... but if telskum keeps this in place for their ISP only, then it is unfair to the rest of the ISPs that they have "forced" to implement hardcapping. So this is uncompetitive behaviour and hopefully one of the ISPs will take them to court about it and get hardcapping removed altogether
 
what we believe about telkom does not matter because no one will ever do anything about it

we live in a country where being ripped off is a way of life

we all know but can do nothing
 
lucifir said:
well spindrift ... nobody wants the hardcapping ... but if telskum keeps this in place for their ISP only, then it is unfair to the rest of the ISPs that they have "forced" to implement hardcapping. So this is uncompetitive behaviour and hopefully one of the ISPs will take them to court about it and get hardcapping removed altogether
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Yes, but i'd rather they do something thats fair to us the consumer. I dont see hard capping as fair for us. Why should we accept a solution that is fair for a minority of people but unfair to the majority?
 
This is getting more crazy every day. Well at least DOTCO has some thing more to add to their case.
 
This is a weird issue. Someone is lying and I know who!

Just spoke to 083 DSL DSL re my request for disconnecting of the 1024ADSL. He stated it is not even registered yet and wanted to know why as I just had it for two months. I stated the facts as we know. His comment was that this per gig billing is new to him and he called someone else to query about it. He came back to say that Telkom is not doing it, only Saix. I told him Saix is TELKOM, a fraudulent front company, to bypass the laws of Icasa, hang on, query again with who-ever and came back Telkom is not doing it. Now what the Hell is the truth here?????. At least he lodged a dispute on this regard so maybe I can get the disconnection I require. LoL Who at TELKOM knows what. I think based on this thread a huge underhand conspiracy is on the go.
 
I just hope that when Telkom drops its hardcap one day, we're not all suddenly satisfied with being capped for international bandwidth.

THERE SHOULD BE NO CAP AT ALL, INTERNATIONAL AND LOCAL. PLEASE PEOPLE NEVER FORGET THIS!!

This could just be a Telkom ploy to divert attention...
 
Has anyone tried this on a non-telkominternet account, eg. axxess?

They may not have implemented the new system yet.
 
The harsh reality is that most of the ISP using SAXI is implementing hard caps. Therefore the option of purchasing additional bandwidth. This is my understanding of it since we started discussing the whole 1 November issue from the start. Agreed there has been very little communication about it and very few end users actually did or do understand what the changes mean.

Telkom is proving this wrong again but that's a different debate alltogether...
 
supersunbird said:
Just recieved word from @lantic Internet Services that they are instituting a hardcap policy, well, I'm leaving them.
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Please dont say u going to TelkomInternet
 
pupa said:
Just spoke to 083 DSL DSL re my request for disconnecting of the 1024ADSL. He stated it is not even registered yet and wanted to know why as I just had it for two months. I stated the facts as we know. His comment was that this per gig billing is new to him and he called someone else to query about it. He came back to say that Telkom is not doing it, only Saix. I told him Saix is TELKOM, a fraudulent front company, to bypass the laws of Icasa, hang on, query again with who-ever and came back Telkom is not doing it. Now what the Hell is the truth here?????. At least he lodged a dispute on this regard so maybe I can get the disconnection I require. LoL Who at TELKOM knows what. I think based on this thread a huge underhand conspiracy is on the go.
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Telkom Press Release said:
Hard capping and the introduction of usage-based billing

On 1 November, Telkom will introduce two options:

1) ISPs can opt to purchase from a set of products ranging from 2 gigabytes to 30 gigabytes shaped, and 4 gigabytes to 30 gigabytes unshaped. All of these options will be hard capped. This means the ISP will purchase user names and passwords from Telkom’s South African Internet Exchange-SAIX and not engage in their own final radius authentication.
2) ISPs will make use of usage-based billing and be responsible for the total consumption of their end users. They will also manage the capping of each user individually. In this case, ISPs will do their final radius authentication and assign their own usernames and passwords to their respective users.
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There Telkom admits SAIX is theirs, can't we use it? Its their (Telkoms) press release.
 
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