Telkom Mobile Coverage

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Hi

How have you found the telkom mobile network?
Compared to the likes of the others in term of overall quality and coverage?
 
Personally my experience has been great. In the Sunninghill area I get great 3G speeds, as well as when I'm in Pretoria or Vereeniging. As someone mentioned on another thread, where Telkom Mobile has coverage the experience is usually very good. When I travel out of coverage areas I roam on MTN, voice service on MTN is fine but opening a Youtube video using GPRS is painfull..
 
You just need average signal and I think the internet speed is very impressive and network works well with no dropped calls or call quality issues...
 
I am not as positive as you chaps are. Their busines plan is a mess. They have not substantially expanded their network in ages. Big confusion about the name change. (8ta vs Telkom Mobile) I guess their true colors are beginning to show. Telkom - need I say more :D
 
intel8080 said:
I am not as positive as you chaps are. Their busines plan is a mess. They have not substantially expanded their network in ages. Big confusion about the name change. (8ta vs Telkom Mobile) I guess their true colors are beginning to show. Telkom - need I say more :D
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proof?
 
Ha Ha One can not proof something it did not happen :D The little they added this year around Capetown and Gauteng is hardly "substantial expansion". Keep in mind, both CellC and especially Telkom Mobile, are not making any money! I think Telkom as such has had it. They simply can not afford to pour something they don't have into this business. A merger is a logical thing. It will strengthen both sides. The T&C will take a while to work out though.
 
intel8080 said:
Ha Ha One can not proof something it did not happen :D The little they added this year around Capetown and Gauteng is hardly "substantial expansion". Keep in mind, both CellC and especially Telkom Mobile, are not making any money! I think Telkom as such has had it. They simply can not afford to pour something they don't have into this business. A merger is a logical thing. It will strengthen both sides. The T&C will take a while to work out though.
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iirc you said you were a journalist? always check your sources... most are already in the public domain.

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https://secure1.telkom.co.za/ir/financial/annual-results-2013/operational-data.html
 
There are still some surprising gaps in Telkom's mobile coverage, e.g. Kelvin (nr. Woodmead) in Joburg, a very densely-populated suburban area. It also seems impossible to get an 8ta signal in SA's most popular tourist destination, Kruger, for instance. And yet living out 'in the bush' as it were, in the Magaliesberg mountains, I have a brilliant 8ta signal -- go figure!
 
If you're referring to my post, it is 8ta's signal -- if you sign up for 8ta's (Telkom Mobile's) discounted packages, you can only use 8ta towers as you probably know. Despite being in a very low-density area, I have an excellent dedicated 8ta signal from one of its own towers. I'm definitely not complaining, but it somehow defies logic that outlying areas with low density would get high-speed signals where densely-populated urban areas might not.
 
I have a Telkom Mobile Business Account. As far as I know, I am not able to roam on MTN. Despite this, I have never been faced with no signal in and around Joburg. Good Latency. Good Speed. Good Support, except this wifi hotspot thing, but I think everyone is confused by it.
 
what I would be more interested in is TMs ability to upgrade their existing towers while rolling out new towers. VC essentially claim to be replacing their network constantly now TM have the dilemma - reinvesting (and maintenance) into existing infrastructure or expanding the footprint.

My guess is that TM is doing more to preserve network quality than CellC but do rank expanding the footprint quite highly
 
Paul Hjul said:
what I would be more interested in is TMs ability to upgrade their existing towers while rolling out new towers. VC essentially claim to be replacing their network constantly now TM have the dilemma - reinvesting (and maintenance) into existing infrastructure or expanding the footprint.

My guess is that TM is doing more to preserve network quality than CellC but do rank expanding the footprint quite highly
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Explain "upgrade existing towers" please? Being the last entrant they built all their sites with the latest technology. LTE is a different issue...
 
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Meaning to be found somewhere in the context of:
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...for-Cell-C?p=10790091&viewfull=1#post10790091 et seq and on the same wavelength :D is http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...k-problems?p=10792609&viewfull=1#post10792609 et seq

So software ready for deployment etc ... all apply. On my reckoning smart decisions means dating slower (look at value of assets in a "tech sense" not a beancounting sense) and so on.

I am assuming towers started being deployed in 2011 so some are in the 2 year range

[again tower is a loose term and obviously there are lots of components - - another matter which may have some play is the extent to which the fixed network (fibre) doesn't need to be upgraded if the operator is selective with installation in the first place :D]
 
Smartbroadband Coverage

Coverage Help Please
I want to get SmartBroadband Wireless option 20+20gig with Router R399/mo.
They say it will work on 3G if your are outside LTE area or poor LTE signal.
Does this mean it will work on 3G if I travel with it outside the LTE area to roaming coverage?
Thanks
Al
 
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