Telkom may close many exchanges, replace copper with wireless services

Bad news. I wonder how many business will be lost, ISP wise, when those 300 exchanges are axed. I also wonder how much money telkom makes from payphones these days ... I understand that the current payphones are somewhat problematic for MSAN use? Will the payphones linked to the above 300 exchanges also go the way of the dodo?
 
Telkom seems to be in much deeper trouble than they would like everyone to think
 
I remember long time ago Telkom wanted to go CDMA route cause of copper theft happening frequently - perhaps those exchanges have frequent copper theft.. It's better to close them down.
 
grim said:
Telkom seems to be in much deeper trouble than they would like everyone to think
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From a technology perspective it makes sense. I would imagine that most of these exchanges are in rural or deep rural areas where copper theft is rife. The customer wants a link to the outside world... how he gets a link should not be important, whether it be via a copper cable or wireless via LTE, as a link is a link.
 
They should just roll out FTTc TBH.

And I wonder how ISP's are going to react to this, their income comes mostly from Uncapped users and there is no way we will have unshapped LTE unless they find a way to limit it to ADSL speeds.
 
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generally good news, obviously it would be great if somebody ponied up and offered to take a few of the exchanges off Telkom's hands as hinted at with the LLU workshop
 
MickeyD said:
From a technology perspective it makes sense. I would imagine that most of these exchanges are in rural or deep rural areas where copper theft is rife. The customer wants a link to the outside world... how he gets a link should not be important, whether it be via a copper cable or wireless via LTE, as a link is a link.
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from a technology perspective Telkom should invest in research into adapting IPoAC for more indigenous purposes like IPoBovineCarrier and IPoOvineCarrier
 
I have been using Telkom's LTE service lately, and it is an excellent ADSL replacement. The only problem is the cost for high usage - hence over 20GB per month.
 
rpm said:
The only problem is the cost for high usage - hence over 20GB per month.
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Throwing out the excellent in the "excellent ADSL replacement" statement - at least for me. I use ADSL for the low latency, lower cost for semi-higher usage and the wide array of service providers (choice) out there in the market. Latency is probably fine with LTE but you are stuck with either MTN/Vodacom/CellC/Telkom for data at a higher cost.
 
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