Telkom Presentation for Brackenfell tonight

[Mean_Monster]

So Telkom dropped some flyer about a meeting tonight to discuss Fibre in the area.

Tuesday 8 March 2016
Learskool Brackenfell
2729 Kerk Avenue, Araunia
18:00 for 18:30

Really hope it is for the bigger part of the area.

 

[rpm]

Thanks for sharing.

If you attend, it will be great if you can share whatever they say.

 

[Yuu]

Please share some video and pics. I only hope you guys are in for a surprise

 

[PostManPat]

First time that Telkom are doing this? Please post info that they give in the presentation.

 

[DawieZA]

Also got the flyer but could not attend. Hope there is some good news for us stuck in the 2 Mbps area in the middle of Protea Heights.

 

[SauRoNZA]

I'm not at home otherwise I would have attended.

Surprised to see so many Brackenfellers here.

 

[Rickster]

18:00 for 18:30

 

[SilverCode]

Bit of a waste of time really. It was more a presentation about why Fibre is so great and what we can get by switching to Fibre. At the start they asked you to fill in a form with your address so they could check if Fibre is available to you. Not a single person there was eligible for Fibre. They also couldn't give any information about proposed expansion plans or their current footprint, other than the coverage map is going to be updated sometime soon with "planned areas".

All in all, it was Telkom trying to sell a product that no one can get. Bottom line is that fibre is not available in Brackenfell except for the 2 complexes that have already been covered for the last 1+ years.

 

[genetic]

18:00 for 18:30

Do you really not know what that means?

 

[Rickster]

Do you really not know what that means?

Is it like saying "to"?

 

[genetic]

Is it like saying "to"?

It means arrive from 18:00 as the presentation starts at 18:30.

 

[Rickster]

It means arrive from 18:00 as the presentation starts at 18:30.

Nope, never heard that before.

 

[MickeyD]

Nope, never heard that before.

Have you started working yet and had to attend meetings?

 

[Rickster]

Have you started working yet and had to attend meetings?

Naw

 

[MickeyD]

Naw

Normal, routine meetings will be scheduled as starting at a specfic time, eg. 10h00. It is your responsibility / duty to be there on time, seated, etc. and ready for the person chairing the meeting to start at 10h00.

Where a larger presentation is to be made to a large audience or where the public is involved, you waould indicate that it is 09h30 for 10h00.

This is to give newcomers time to find the place, find a seat, greet people they have not seen for ages, etc. The meeting will then start at 10h00.

 

[PostManPat]

Bit of a waste of time really. It was more a presentation about why Fibre is so great and what we can get by switching to Fibre. At the start they asked you to fill in a form with your address so they could check if Fibre is available to you. Not a single person there was eligible for Fibre. They also couldn't give any information about proposed expansion plans or their current footprint, other than the coverage map is going to be updated sometime soon with "planned areas".

All in all, it was Telkom trying to sell a product that no one can get. Bottom line is that fibre is not available in Brackenfell except for the 2 complexes that have already been covered for the last 1+ years.

I do believe that the update is about 20-30 days away. Telkom already failed to deliver on their Bryanston and Constantia feb deadline, which means that they are behind schedule like always.

 

[MickeyD]

Bit of a waste of time really. It was more a presentation about why Fibre is so great and what we can get by switching to Fibre. At the start they asked you to fill in a form with your address so they could check if Fibre is available to you. Not a single person there was eligible for Fibre. They also couldn't give any information about proposed expansion plans or their current footprint, other than the coverage map is going to be updated sometime soon with "planned areas".

All in all, it was Telkom trying to sell a product that no one can get. Bottom line is that fibre is not available in Brackenfell except for the 2 complexes that have already been covered for the last 1+ years.

Extremely poor form.

Whoever organised this should get their arses kicked.

Were there any Telkom technical folks present or was it just sales staff?

 

[Yuu]

Bit of a waste of time really. /snip

All in all, it was Telkom trying to sell a product that no one can get. Bottom line is that fibre is not available in Brackenfell except for the 2 complexes that have already been covered for the last 1+ years.

Thanks for posting the info, really poor form as MickeyD said .

Extremely poor form.

Whoever organised this should get their arses kicked.

Were there any Telkom technical folks present or was it just sales staff?

+100

 

[SilverCode]

Extremely poor form.

Whoever organised this should get their arses kicked.

Were there any Telkom technical folks present or was it just sales staff?

The two guys there weren't sales people, they were more national project managers. You could see that the guy giving the presentation really did care about Fibre, but a) wan't from the area (he was from Noordhoek) and b) wasn't fully technically competent in a networking sense. He did know the physical workings of fibre vs copper, could explain why copper degrades over distance vs fibre, contention ratios etc, but couldn't answer questions about "exchange congestion" or similar questions.

Personally the guy who gave the presentation was a nice guy, he knew his stuff and he was passionate about the product in a technical sense. He didn't seem like a MyBB member though, and the whole event was probably more targeted towards sales. As I said to someone as I was walking out the parking lot though, they need to get their marketing team in order. They put really well produced, sealed envelopes in peoples mailboxes saying that they could get Fibre because it had arrived in the area, but it turns out they couldn't.

 

[MrR]

From Protea Heights here (around Angelier Street)

They stopped ftth upgrades ~100m from my place, with not much hope of getting ftth anytime soon (according to 2 different technicians). My neighbours and I cant get more than 8mbps (stable).