Telkom optimistic about ADSL growth

He explained that the build programme itself consists of two technology options. Where there is sufficient demand, we use fibre to the node, which puts an ADSL point of presence closer to customers.
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I saw a video of this same guy, in Feb. 2006, where he was saying the exact same thing.
 
Despite everything this is good news. ADSL growth needs to accelerate and let’s hope there are higher speed and potentially higher usage limits in the pipeline.
 
"Telkom optimistic about ADSL growth"

Someone has to be...

Telkom is talking such utter twaddle.
"Samuels continued: “Considering our current penetration of just over 7%, we are clearly still in the infancy stage of the broadband maturity curve, with plenty of room to grow.”

We should at least be in the teenage stage of the broadband maturity curve (where they came up with that term Ill never know) Telkom has ACTIVLEY kept us back. There could have had 700 000 ADSL subscriber last year already had the market been open and competitive. Telkom is striving for a target that they themselves actually do everything possible to prevent! Complete madness.

Im sorry RPM. I think I missed the good news part?
 
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“At this point, we are only selling high-speed internet..."

No you're not.
 
700 000 subscribers?

Please!!!!! Telkom wishes!
I'm already ready to leave, I just want my contract to expire and I'm GONE BABY!

Remember that thread "Tato Nano is a pipe dream" (or whatever it's called)

Well, "700 000 Telkom ADSL subscribers is a REAL pipe dream"
 
Freshy-ZN said:
Im sorry RPM. I think I missed the good news part?
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The good news is that there is ADSL growth, even if it just goes to one company at the moment. What you're talking about is very old bad news, it doesn't mean that there isn't anything good in this.
 
the article said:
“We will continue to seek various strategies aimed at increasing customer satisfaction in our efforts at seeking increased ADSL penetration,” concluded Samuels.
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Customer satisfaction? You can start off with some simple things like improving the 0800 375 375 helpdesk response time so I dont have to wait 30+ minutes each time I call to check the status of a fault that was opened a week ago and still hasn't been fixed (*hint* for another improvement!)?
 
rpm said:
Despite everything this is good news. ADSL growth needs to accelerate and let’s hope there are higher speed and potentially higher usage limits in the pipeline.
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Knowing telscum they will just put more people on the same groaning infrastructure, decrease the usage allowance and increase the price.

Worked for them in the past.... :sick:
 
This view was expressed by Alphonzo Samuels, Group Executive for Wholesale Sales and Marketing Operations who said that in most developed countries, broadband penetration ranges from 25% to 50% of fixed lines.

Samuels continued: “Considering our current penetration of just over 7%, we are clearly still in the infancy stage of the broadband maturity curve, with plenty of room to grow.”
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25% to 50% uncapped/unshaped/high speed internet

7% hard cap/shaped/ mainly 384kbs users
 
I think Samuels and his pals are made of the same stuff as those ESKOM execs to be honest.
Percentages aside in a shrinking fixed line market ;) what he is saying is what people have been trying to tell them for years, yet he sounds like he invented this ****.

“An important step forward in matching supply with demand has been the creation of Telkom’s Broadband Register. Where there is demand but no infrastructure, the intelligence goes into the Broadband Register, which is fed into our build programme so that we are able to prioritise more effectively and efficiently,” said Samuels.
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I have a feeling this will be as visible as their share register, but it will be tested.

“We will continue to seek various strategies aimed at increasing customer satisfaction in our efforts at seeking increased ADSL penetration,” concluded Samuels.
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SO your company has been saying for years in between record profits, yet the consumer has been left with little more than nothing and even more draconian bandwidth policies.

Same old same old from TELKOM.
No wheres the bucket :sick:
 
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Newsflash for Alphonzo Samuels, Telkodemonopolies' ADSL hostages are on average, sick and tired of being stuck with crappy 384kbits/s down and 128kbits/s up.

At some point in the next few months, I will be one of the ex-hostages, and will cancel this crappy ADSL, and just use HSDPA instead.
 
ic said:
Newsflash for Alphonzo Samuels, Telkodemonopolies' ADSL hostages are on average, sick and tired of being stuck with crappy 384kbits/s down and 128kbits/s up.

At some point in the next few months, I will be one of the ex-hostages, and will cancel this crappy ADSL, and just use HSDPA instead.
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Is HSDPA actually faster for browsing? Local is extremely fast on ADSL, and international has about the best link, going direct to SAIX.

It's not like you can download much on HSDPA, 3GB only becomes an option from next month really.
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
Is HSDPA actually faster for browsing? Local is extremely fast on ADSL, and international has about the best link, going direct to SAIX.

It's not like you can download much on HSDPA, 3GB only becomes an option from next month really.
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HSDPA [for me] is much faster for browsing & downloading & uploading than the blazingly slow 313.6kbits/s down & 50kbits/s..90kbits/s up that I get on ADSL, I will suffer a bit with jittery latency on HSDPA, and I will have to get used to downloading less & use a Freedom Toaster for a change, but better than waiting for Telkodemonopolies for eternity <added>to install mini-DSLAMs and FTTC in my area</added>.
 
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ic said:
HSDPA [for me] is much faster for browsing & downloading & uploading than the blazingly slow 313.6kbits/s down & 50kbits/s..90kbits/s up that I get on ADSL, I will suffer a bit with jittery latency on HSDPA, and I will have to get used to downloading less & use a Freedom Toaster for a change, but better than waiting for Telkodemonopolies for eternity <added>to install mini-DSLAMs and FTTC in my area</added>.
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I see, thanks. I've never used HSDPA but I didn't have such high expectations.
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
I see, thanks. I've never used HSDPA but I didn't have such high expectations.
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I don't want to give the impression that HSDPA is South Africa's broadband messiah - it is not.

To clarify, I've just had more than I can take of Telkodemonopolies & its incompetence, and I don't see Telkodemonopolies substantially decreasing its ADSL pricing, and I don't see Telkodemonopolies providing a substantially better ADSL [read ADSL2+] service in my area. I only expect to see ADSL2+ in my area from Telkodemonopolies, when LLU is a reality, i.e. when Telkodemonopolies has wired fixed line competitors, which might as well be never at this point in time.
 
Sweet talk sweet talk.

Sweet talk sweet talk. Yada yada...
Start winning back the respect of your current customers by lowering you r ridiculous prices Telkom...
I just got ADSL on monday. Had my fair share of S**t with their modem's fiewall, good grief... :cool:
 
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