Telkom Media clarifies planned IPTV offering

nthdimension said:
I see no way this will make economic sense. Considering Telkom's current ADSL prices the service you'd require for IPTV is going to be extremely expensive.
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Indeed. It would actually be cheaper to get DSTV :eek:
 
Helen72 said:
So, do we have content delivery servers in South Africa?

Try delivering Live or VOD content off a web server to not only 1000's of viewers, but 1000's of concurrent views too..Ha ha ha

:confused:

NOTE TO TELKOM MEDIA: IPTV = streaming, not silly progressive downloads!
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They are not "web" servers. IPTV uses its own network that streams the video that you want from dedicated data centres. (tech people plz correct me if wrong) The thing will work flawlessly. - The problem is the price. :(
 
i can't wait to see telkom media not achieve ANYTHING whatsoever. IF I***-*** gives them their license to try and violate people from behind even more, they won't get any customers at those prices. They can't compete with multichoice. sure, it's HD, but how many south africans own HD TVs? At R1000+/month for crappy telkom-rated service (a service that shows us how we're being totally ripped off for local bandwidth), who the hell would even consider this???
 
Haha just remember that most likely to have IPTV, you MUST have a ADSL2 service, for which an analogue phone line is a requirement... R320 Kiss my ***, it is more like R100 + R245 + R320 + ADSL ISP...

But wait... there is more!!!

Don'tBroadband will have a special package (Do'ntTV where you only have to pay one bill!!!
 
R100 for six channels, and this is per month? No words will explain what I feel about that right now!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
12 -18 months from lic from icasa Hahahaha talk again in 5 years
 
Vice said:
How about TelkomAirways? 3km per month or pay as as you fly. Haaaahahahaha...
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If you way more than 50kg you get capped and half of you will only be allowed local flights.
 
Vice said:
How about TelkomAirways? 3km per month or pay as as you fly. Haaaahahahaha...
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If you weigh more than 50kg you get capped and half of you will only be allowed local flights.
 
If there's something positive we can take from this, is that telkom will have start upgrading their networks to support ADSL2. Wait a moment, ADSL2 is yesterdays technology?
 
Van Zyl noted that while Telkom may be their largest shareholder they are an entirely separate company from Telkom, similar to Vodacom.

“Telkom Media’s relationship with Telkom will not be on a preferential basis and Telkom Media expects Telkom SA to treat it in the same way as any other service provider,” Telkom Media said.
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Sounds very much like Telkom's relationship with TelkomInternet - separate company + no preferential treatment but 100% owned by Telkom and still capable of shafting every competing ISP into oblivion. Telkom has a 50% share in Vodacom but with no management control. At least Vodacom doesn't have "Telkom" anywhere in it's name. I wonder who the other shareholders in Telkom Media are.
 
So ...
we can assume that the media cost is less than R100. Media costs must be lower than the whole sattelite setup.
then one pays R220 and a bit for the wired connection and ADSL bits and pieces ....
If you then want a phone you get charged R100 for the wire which is already there and paid for ...
If you want internet you pay another R240 for the line rental, ADSL connection and ISP which are already there and have been paid for?

For a setup that consist of IPTV, phone and internet access one would therefore pay 3 line rentals and 2 ADLS access charges, 2 ISP's (one for TV and one for Internet)?

Is that the scenario?
I wonder what the new consumer protection bill which is in the pipeline has to say about something like this?
 
risingtide said:
I wonder what the new consumer protection bill which is in the pipeline has to say about something like this?
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Probably that there is no evidence of any exploitative conduct on the part of Telkom. After the required three years of deliberation, investigation and free lunches of course.

Looks like a non starter to me. R320 + (4mb) connection is about R1000 a month. + Any Internet if you want it. DSTV is R500 a month flat. Excluding your once off decoder purchase of course. Thats the bar. Consumers won't care that portons x and y are charged for seperately. And with ADSL penetration rates? Nevermind ADSL2. Probably a potential total base of customers of about 10000. Good luck to them. Oh and being Telkom, I don't see them parting with their loot to buy the latest and greatest content. Probably get E-TV hand me downs.

Telkom marketing is clearly living in a Wolkenkuckucksheim of their own.
 
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Guys, this is so cool! Telcum brought a new meaning to the word "Triple Play"

Instead of getting 3 services for one price, let us split those 3 services into 4 or 5 prices.

Each price is extremely competitive on the international market hey?

(Please do not add the 4 or 5 prices together, we like to keep them apart)

P.S. This R320 per month is for the basic IPTV I presume, not the premium IPTV
 
DSTV must be smiling to themselves now - They never thought in their wildest dreams that their competition would be so completely useless. As usual its the consumer that suffers
 
R320 with no Internet/Pots...what is the benefit ? DSTV is a bit more expensive and have access to international rights and not just the local JizoJizo type things they want to peddle...

Think they need to rethink their business case...
 
I could be mistaken but I rate my exchange has already been upgraded to ADSL2+. In my Billion 7300G router I have options to connect over adsl multimode (standard), adsl2 and adsl2+. If I select adsl2+ my line synchs and works as normal.

Telkom is powering towards adsl2+ and the extraction of even more cash from South African punters.

I wonder what will be showing on telkom's IPTV service? DSTV has a ton of channels already covered including all of the sport. Will there be anything worth watching on this service in any case?
 
Hades said:
If I select adsl2+ my line synchs and works as normal.
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Naaah, its just the fallback algorithm kicking in, most router work that way. All your doing by selecting ADSL2+ is telling the router to start 'training' at ADSL2+, if it fails, it falls back to ADSL2 and so on until it gets sync.


Use a stopwatch to check the difference in amount of sec it takes to sync with plain ADSL & ADSL2+. Should be shorter with ADSL as it's not 'hunting' for the right protocol.
 
yeah you might be right about that. However, I do not synch at all if I select ADSL2 must be a completely different modulation method I guess.
 
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