Telkom optimistic about ADSL growth

Telkom need to get their optimistic heads out of the asses. I've been waiting for 21 months now and I still have bugger all!
 
Talk from telkom should no longer be newsworthy. It is time only real, concrete action made the news.

All in all, the current state of broadband in SA shows telkom's true intentions better than any words ever could.
 
Well I ordered a telephone line last year in December with the aim of getting ADSL. I called them every week to hear why no one responded and was told every time that someone will get back to me the next day. They never did.

So yesterday I gave up, called them, and told them what they can do with their telephone line.

I think I'll rather stick with Vodacom and download big stuff through my works ADSL.

Someone else in my office also ordered and canceled their ADSL within 2 weeks, after he heard that he'll need to pay line rental and ADSL rental.
 
Geriatrix said:
Well I ordered a telephone line last year in December with the aim of getting ADSL. I called them every week to hear why no one responded and was told every time that someone will get back to me the next day. They never did.

So yesterday I gave up, called them, and told them what they can do with their telephone line.

I think I'll rather stick with Vodacom and download big stuff through my works ADSL.

Someone else in my office also ordered and canceled their ADSL within 2 weeks, after he heard that he'll need to pay line rental and ADSL rental.
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I will be on ICASA's doorstep come next month on around the 10th with a complaint regarding my adsl order.
Why not join me.
 
It's easy to grow at 7% per year, when you have no competition. Let's see if they continue growing on their way to 700k users at 2011, when Neotel actually starts offering services... I for one won't think twice about ditching Hellkom.
 
“With outcomes-based education, parents are forced to assist their children with research and, increasingly, schools expect the internet to be used as a research resource. This creates a momentum for ADSL,” said Samuels.
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ADSL is not the only option in the market for the above requirements. The sad truth is that for most people, wireless truly is a viable option compared to ADSL service levels and prices in South Africa.

Perhaps this statement is aimed at generating positive spin for the Saudi deal?

I can testify that Telkom's growth has less to do with the reasons in the article and more to do with new consumers being uninformed and falling for the DoBroadband hype. I believe the 'growth' has little to do with Telkom becoming proactive and more to do with the general consumer looking for some sort of broadband and do not yet have decent wireless coverage.

Expansion? Fibre to the node? Perhaps to new complexes and years-old rollout plans but not anyplace I know of. For months I've had problems with my copper lines in fact the last round left me 20 days without any service in a single month and over Christmas to top it off! Telkom has known for a very long time that the underground cables in my area must be replaced yet they fail to do so and regular faults are logged for frequent disconnects or heavy errors / earth-hum on the line making onine gaming impossible. I do not know why the replacement is constantly being put off but it results in an unsatisfactory service and not worth the monthly cost to me to be honest. MAYBE this delay is because Telkom is actually planning to rolloing fibre? LOL I doubt it though.

This does however work in Telkom's favour as they happily sign-on more customers without having to overhaul their network. The more connectivity problems existing clients have, the more available capacity other users have with no cost for replacement of faulty cables or having to provide additional bandwidth capacity.

The 'Broadband Register' is the same thing other companies like iBurst are doing. In fact, for years you could 'place your order' online with Telkom and they'd put it on hold until the exchange in your area was upgraded. Yet time after time, the exchange upgrade date would be pushed further back. This is why a friend cancelled his ADSL order after 2 years and switched to iBurst.

So it seems to me that Telkom isn't investing much in terms of maintenance on existing infrastructure and MAY be spending on selected new expansion in certain areas but it has not reached the point where I would support the term 'optimistic' in any definition of the word.

Unless Telkom becomes truly serious about the real state of their ADSL network for ALL consumers, it's only a matter of time before ADSL users cancel their lines and move to another broadband option much like the millions of telephones Telkom was forced to install were subsequently cut off due to high cost. I may not have iBurst or WiMax yet but I'm confident one day I will and if ADSL still gives me problems or isn't worth the aggrevation, I'll switch in a heart-beat.
 
It is Telkodemonopolies' own incompetence, that has forced lots of consumers to go wireless due to not being able to get ADSL out of the monopolistic beast.

How many HSDPA consumers are there versus ADSL consumers - remembering of course that Telkodemonopolies' ADSL arrived in 2002, and [-]HSDPA[/-] vanilla-3G arrived in December 2005 and HSDPA has very quickly gained ~50% of the broadband market despite Telkodemonopolies effectively having had nearly 4 years of a head-start over HSDPA...
 
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