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SilverCode
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For completeness, the questions that were asked and answered in a paraphrased sense:
1) If you are an existing Telkom ADSL customer in a FTTH area, they will come replace you copper with fibre (ie. physically pull the copper out of its trunking and pull fibre) for free
2) If you agree to them replacing your copper, they will run the fibre along the same route as the copper. No need to dig anything up on your premises.
3) If you stay in a complex, regardless of how the line enters your unit, they will prefer to contact and work with the body corporate to replace all lines in the complex with fibre, instead of just your unit. The question was asked specifically for a complex that had only a small number of units where all existing lines ran from the house, through a pipe to a manhole outside the complex. They said that even though legally they could just replace the copper with fibre, they would prefer to work with the body corporate to do all houses.
4) If you sign up with them before the end of March, you get double data
5) "Soft Cap" means they throttle P2P and downloads. Streaming remains un-affected
6) If they replace your copper as part of the special, your voice line remains in-tact. After the trial period, the fibre remains but you revert to your original ADSL speeds (ie. if you currently have a 4Mbpbs ADSL, they up that to 10Mbps for the trial. After the trial you go down to a 4Mbps fibre line).
7) The fibre line is split into 3 portions. Data, Voice and Fax. You existing voice handset will continue to work with their fibre modem.
8) There was some vague acknowledgement that if you have ADSL with any provider, you can still get the "fibre upgrade trial" with them at no additional cost. But the guy didn't seem super sure about this, so I would be weary of it. However, the recent thing with Afrihost saying they can provide data but not the line came to mind while he was saying this. It sounded like you could sign up with them for the fibre trial at no additional cost above your current ADSL cost, then get Afrihost as your ISP for only the Afrihost cost and all would be good.
9) They have just completed their cost assessment studies, and have submitted their proposals to their finance and planning department and are waiting for approvals for the coming financial year. This is the reason that their coverage map may be updated soon. If the costings are approved, more areas will move into the planning stage
10) They are no longer installing legacy non-fibre infrastructure. If an area has poor copper infrastructure they would rather replace it with fibre than new MSANS/ISAMS. An example was used of an affluent neighbourhood getting fibre and everyone commenting that they got fibre first because it was a rich neighbourhood, but according to the speaker it was because it was old (and affluent because it was old), their infrastructure was replaced with fibre first instead of upgrading the copper infrastructure.
1) If you are an existing Telkom ADSL customer in a FTTH area, they will come replace you copper with fibre (ie. physically pull the copper out of its trunking and pull fibre) for free
2) If you agree to them replacing your copper, they will run the fibre along the same route as the copper. No need to dig anything up on your premises.
3) If you stay in a complex, regardless of how the line enters your unit, they will prefer to contact and work with the body corporate to replace all lines in the complex with fibre, instead of just your unit. The question was asked specifically for a complex that had only a small number of units where all existing lines ran from the house, through a pipe to a manhole outside the complex. They said that even though legally they could just replace the copper with fibre, they would prefer to work with the body corporate to do all houses.
4) If you sign up with them before the end of March, you get double data
5) "Soft Cap" means they throttle P2P and downloads. Streaming remains un-affected
6) If they replace your copper as part of the special, your voice line remains in-tact. After the trial period, the fibre remains but you revert to your original ADSL speeds (ie. if you currently have a 4Mbpbs ADSL, they up that to 10Mbps for the trial. After the trial you go down to a 4Mbps fibre line).
7) The fibre line is split into 3 portions. Data, Voice and Fax. You existing voice handset will continue to work with their fibre modem.
8) There was some vague acknowledgement that if you have ADSL with any provider, you can still get the "fibre upgrade trial" with them at no additional cost. But the guy didn't seem super sure about this, so I would be weary of it. However, the recent thing with Afrihost saying they can provide data but not the line came to mind while he was saying this. It sounded like you could sign up with them for the fibre trial at no additional cost above your current ADSL cost, then get Afrihost as your ISP for only the Afrihost cost and all would be good.
9) They have just completed their cost assessment studies, and have submitted their proposals to their finance and planning department and are waiting for approvals for the coming financial year. This is the reason that their coverage map may be updated soon. If the costings are approved, more areas will move into the planning stage
10) They are no longer installing legacy non-fibre infrastructure. If an area has poor copper infrastructure they would rather replace it with fibre than new MSANS/ISAMS. An example was used of an affluent neighbourhood getting fibre and everyone commenting that they got fibre first because it was a rich neighbourhood, but according to the speaker it was because it was old (and affluent because it was old), their infrastructure was replaced with fibre first instead of upgrading the copper infrastructure.
Even M-Web users would be able to get the Fibre.. or as SilverCode specified. The Fibre includes a data portion. The topups you could take thru any ISP.
