Telkom scared to be tested?

[shane101]

Running from the geek

TECHNOLOGY geek Rudolph Muller has become something of a celebrity in internet circles for his vociferous yet goodhumoured refusal to let companies get away with exaggerated claims of the quality of their internet services.

Muller founded MyADSL, a website for people to complain about the cost and quality of high-speed services. Now Muller, a lecturer at Johannesburg University, has set up a broadband testing lab to subject the rival claims of service providers to academic testing.

Muller says wireless broadband providers — Sentech, Vodacom, MTN and WBS — support him by supplying free hardware and will not charge for the bandwidth. Some even sent technicians along.

Oddly enough, Telkom is not one of the companies providing free bandwidth and free hardware. Is Telkom really so determined to wring all it can from its customers that it will not even support academics who test its services? What is it afraid of?

Original article: http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/bottomline.aspx?ID=BD4A93640

 

[stoke]

ROFL.
*stoke loves all this "poking the stick at the freaking monolith" stuff*
Poke Teklom Hard !

 

[AntiThesis]

I'd be pretty scared myself if I were telkom... they'd lose shareholder support because they showed a sign of "weakness". Aah well.

 

[AntiThesis]

You saying you're not a geek? I wear the label proudly

 

[AntiThesis]

Right well that's no good... now my second post makes no sense!

 

[rpm]

You saying you're not a geek? I wear the label proudly

I confess...the term is accurate

 

[Soulburner]

Wow, just shows that Telkom really is pathetic. They only care of themselves and not the people.

 

[AntiThesis]

You know it rpm Now embrace your geekiness. Hmm. I wonder if there is a brand called "Geek" yet?

*copyrights*

Too true soulburner...too true

 

[Albereth]

Dibs on MyGeek.co.za

 

[rsd]

going to sell bonsai geeks online?

 

[stoke]

Geek.co.za is quite taken :

1999-11-15| N | 200.00|[email protected] |2000-02-01| 1 | 68098|Christian Burger
2000-09-22| U | 0.00|[email protected] |2000-09-22| 0 | 0|Christian Burger
2000-12-02| R | 50.00|[email protected] |2001-01-24| 2 | 132093|Christian Burger
2001-12-03| R | 50.00|[email protected] |2001-12-31| 1 | 191076|Christian Burger
2002-04-27| U | 0.00|[email protected] |2002-04-27| 0 | 0|Christian Burger
2002-12-03| R | 50.00|[email protected] |2002-12-04| 1 | 255485|Christian Burger
2003-07-24| U | 0.00|[email protected] |2003-07-24| 0 | 0|Christian Burger
2003-09-05| U | 0.00|[email protected] |2003-09-05| 0 | 0|Christian Burger
2003-12-01| R | 50.00|[email protected] |2003-12-17| 1 | 324351|Christian Burger
2004-07-17| U | 0.00|[email protected] |2004-07-17| 0 | 0|HBG Technologies (Pty) Limited
2004-12-02| R | 50.00|[email protected] |2005-01-21| 2 | 408736|HBG Technologies (Pty) Limited

And - DONT GO THERE - it just redirects you to an international carp site.

 

[AntiThesis]

Damned fishing sites...

 

[doobiwan]

Geek and proud!

Damn straight, no self respecting geek would be caught doing anything as rustic as fishing. Phishing maybe, but nothing to do with anything that doesn't require batteries . . .

EDIT: Now it's going to an Open Source site . .

 

[Moederloos]

Geek and proud!

Damn straight, no self respecting geek would be caught doing anything as rustic as fishing. Phishing maybe, but nothing to do with anything that doesn't require batteries . . .

EDIT: Now it's going to an Open Source site . .

Battery operated fishing rod, with laser sight and usb support! yeah!

 

[thisgeek]

Heh, you should see my license plate