Telkom to kill and replace ADSL

[LazyLion]

Will the old voice telephone lines also be discontinued?

Did you read the article?

 

[backstreetboy]

So this never happened in the end? Lol.

Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko said they are set to remove line rental from household broadband services.

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/telecoms/167613-telkom-to-remove-line-rental-for-adsl.html
Sipho Maseko is a lying liar that lies.

 

[H1TMANlol]

Did you read the article?

To be fair . You learn more from The comments sometimes

 

[Fox1]

I expect this matter to end in a dispute between ISP's and Telkom since Telkom has a monopoly over copper infrastructure in this country. ISP's would lose a ton of revenue in the process.

 

[JustAsk]

I expect this matter to end in a dispute between ISP's and Telkom since Telkom has a monopoly over copper infrastructure in this country. ISP's would lose a ton of revenue in the process.

Ease up with the entitlement there.

 

[Suspect99]

My gran has a FLLA phone which she pays R200 line rental for. If she switches to Smart Voice will she have to pay The line rental on top of the monthly subscription fee?

 

[isie]

My gran has a FLLA phone which she pays R200 line rental for. If she switches to Smart Voice will she have to pay The line rental on top of the monthly subscription fee?

from what i understand smart voice cost includes line rental.

 

[Knyro]

Did you read the article?

Read the article? On MyBB?

You must be new here.

 

[Suspect99]

from what i understand smart voice cost includes line rental.

Awesome.

She went to Telkom only for the clueless sales lady to say "Uhm I'm not sure, on all our products you must pay line rental"

 

[isie]

Awesome.

She went to Telkom only for the clueless sales lady to say "Uhm I'm not sure, on all our products you must pay line rental"

"if it's not in the script "

I see Nothing in the small print
https://secure.telkom.co.za/today/help/downloads/file/smartvoice-tscs/
https://secure.telkom.co.za/today/help/downloads/file/smartvoice-faqs/

 

[Chris.Geerdts]

Telkom keeps calling me and trying to offer me a conversion to fibre. Drawback is they want me to pay in extra. They also want me to commit to 24m. Sorry, but I ain't that dumb

 

[[OUPA]MrNutz]

BAD idea! - Our little town has NO fibre or ftth for residential + 67% of coverage area doesn't have any 8ta/Telkom LTE coverage as proposed substitute. How now brown cow? Stable protocol platforms are going to go mad on poor 3g/LTE.

 

[lordnokon]

Okay, but what about areas where none of this can work, and you only have VDSL or ADSL to work of?

At the current rate to have business fibre installed were you can get it, you looking at at least 3-6months months.

 

[isie]

Telkom keeps calling me and trying to offer me a conversion to fibre. Drawback is they want me to pay in extra. They also want me to commit to 24m. Sorry, but I ain't that dumb

You may not be dumb but you aren't being smart either.

if you have fibre in the area (even if its Openserve) you can sign on with any ISP (like Cool ideas) it will be cheaper and faster then ADSL and just cancel your adsl and phone - if you really want the same number port it to VOIP

 

[DanDango]

This migration is one stage of Telkom’s plan to shut down its copper network entirely in the next five years

If they move as fast as analog to digital migration, I will still be on adsl in 2050.

 

[Totempole]

When I'm finally forced to switch my VDSL to Vuma Fibre, no way in hell I'm using Telkom as my ISP. I'd consider an LTE solution, but only if it's month to month, and I'd need a decent amount of data too.

 

[supersunbird]

And suffer through buffering while waiting for Netflix to try and work through this carp signal. Telkom have lied, they have not contacted me about alternatives and are being dead quite every time I try to contact them. My DSL is rock steady and works well.

About what specifically?

 

[Moto Guzzi]

Telkom to kill and replace ADSL

Telkom has announced that it is decommissioning its prepaid fixed-line service after migrating 96% of these customers to wireless products.

The company said its wireless technology is more reliable than copper infrastructure, which can be severely impacted by adverse weather conditions and cable theft.

https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/thr...ustomers-to-wireless-and-fibre.1039961/page-3

 

[Anakha56]

About what specifically?

I followed it up after the highlighted part, like it is right there <_<. They have never contacted me to discuss moving me off DSL.

I'm getting 37ms ping on LTE. What kind of latency are you getting?

It never is stable enough to do any sort of test. You will see a connection, you will try to browse, it times out and the signal drops to 2G, it will start loading, then change to LTE and repeat the cycle. It is extremely unreliable.

 

[isie]

I followed it up after the highlighted part, like it is right there <_<. They have never contacted me to discuss moving me off DSL.

They only contacted and converted majority of prepaid line users the rest of the users is still in progress - like still 5 years before they kill copper.