Telkom still do adsl resets

Kalvaer said:
I never said you were at this point.. just that they have not "ALWAYS" done everything that they have been instructed to do. You also clearly said yourself.. Does everything it "CAN" to adhere. This does not mean that they always do as you said previously.

I'll admit though that they are a business as any other, and will of course try everything possible to make money.. I'd do the same. Even if Telkom are now trying to clear up their image and supposedly "do what they can", It will take a long while for people to forget the past and the all the bad.
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Can't argue with that. All I can do is give my assurance that we (TI) are doing what we can. We believe that we, as a VANS licensee, are adhering to all ICASA regulations and if not, we know that we can get into **** for it.

Like I said before, the resets serve no benefit to us. I could not give a scooby doo how long someone is connected for... So far, this month, I do not have 1 user that has exceeded his usage limit by more than 1.3Gb - This is acceptable to me - and I suspect all SAIX reselling ISPs - due to status updates and line speeds.
 
mercurial said:
I wish Telkom would make local bandwidth free.
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There is no real reason why local usage cannot be dramatically reduced. Obviously there are still costs incurred to provide some kind of service - you have to be realistic - it cannot just be given away for free.

Nothing is ever free dude...
 
bonobo_slr said:
There is no real reason why local usage cannot be dramatically reduced. Obviously there are still costs incurred to provide some kind of service - you have to be realistic - it cannot just be given away for free.

Nothing is ever free dude...
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If there's no real reason why it cannot be reduced, then why is it not reduced?
 
While we have an 'official' telkom rep here ( and sorry for hijacking thread) but bonobo can you elaborate on the rumours around 384 going up to 512, 512 to 1mb etc etc.

Any word if this might actually happen/when?
 
gregmcc said:
While we have an 'official' telkom rep here ( and sorry for hijacking thread) but bonobo can you elaborate on the rumours around 384 going up to 512, 512 to 1mb etc etc.

Any word if this might actually happen/when?
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Not here on official business... :) No idea about DSL speeds being upgraded. Unfortunately that will be covered by wholesale - something I have nothing to do with.
 
stoke said:
Reduced is reduced, 1c less is still reduced. Ask Edgars or ABSA.
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What exactly was the local price of bandwidth reduced from? TI previously had the pooled shared cap system where you could exceed your cap and still have access to all sites. They then gave unlimited local bandwidth after the cap for a few months and later brought in the 'local bandwidth may be charged' disclaimer which gave them the right to bill you at a rate of R25 per gb. If anything, we're worse off now paying R25 p/gb after the allocated promotional bandwidth than we previously were with pooled shared caps and the unlimited local bandwidth.
 
mercurial said:
ROFL how is that a reduced rate? That's more than other companies! Insanity.
Have a look here at WebAfrica's Local SAIX accounts - http://www.webafrica.co.za/adsl/local/

They charge R19 per local GB. Telkom charges R25. Daylight robbery.
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As far as I understand it - TI say they may charge for local if you exceed your usage amount - ie 10Gb for a 1Gb account. They don't charge everyone. I am not involved in that side, but as i understand it only a few people actually get charged. For example - there is a user on 135Gb for local so far - that is 105Gb over his usage limit. HE will get a bill... thats for sure. But most people don't.
 
zamrg said:
What exactly was the local price of bandwidth reduced from? TI previously had the pooled shared cap system where you could exceed your cap and still have access to all sites. They then gave unlimited local bandwidth after the cap for a few months and later brought in the 'local bandwidth may be charged' disclaimer which gave them the right to bill you at a rate of R25 per gb. If anything, we're worse off now paying R25 p/gb after the allocated promotional bandwidth than we previously were with pooled shared caps and the unlimited local bandwidth.
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Pooled shared cap things were here before I got here and to be honest - I do not know how or if there was such a thing. I believe there was a promotion on the local usage. Remember the ICASA ruling is that local usage is not subjected to a cap, ISPs cannot cap people on local usage at all - so the R25/Gb is there to deter people from 'extracting the urine'. But for most users - local is not charged at all.
 
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