Telkom to kill and replace ADSL

Zoomzoom said:
You thought wrong, but don't worry, lots of people on this forum think wrong but are convinced they are right, so you are in good company.
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Oh ya I forgot you in that mysterious one horse town with one vodacom cellphone tower without battery backup.
you didn't care about internet when the lights go - not that you didn't have internet
 
isie said:
Oh ya I forgot you in that mysterious one horse town with one vodacom cellphone tower without battery backup.
you didn't care about internet when the lights go - not that you didn't have internet
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it's not even a one horse town, we only have a few donkeys, a bunch of ostriches and some cows that go down the main street once in a while.
 
Has anyone done this migration ? I have an 8 meg uncapped ADSL plan and I do +- 450gigs a month on it. I seriously dont see them giving us this same cap on LTE . Can someone please confirm ?

When I called in to Telkom , They said that its a 150 gig limit and then drops speed in half weather you chose the 4meg or 10 meg LTE deal. This is BS
 
Zoomzoom said:
Uh hello we aren't rubbish to be tossed out at the nearest possible opportunity. We are CUSTOMERS! Just like anyone else.
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Wireless ISPs (WISPs) cover much of the country and some do site surveys if there is interest from a new area. It's worth looking at. If you choose a good one (at least a WAPA member) you can get very good service and line quality
 
Anyway it's Sunday. Here where I am Vodacom LTE is around 70% of the time in working hours. Weekend like now around bugger all. Still fast but not LTE fast. Seems like everyone with a LTE phone is sucking the tower dry.

I'm learning still and taking notice of these things now. Thanks MBB posters :)
 
Chris.Geerdts said:
Wireless ISPs (WISPs) cover much of the country and some do site surveys if there is interest from a new area. It's worth looking at. If you choose a good one (at least a WAPA member) you can get very good service and line quality
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Doesn't alter the fact that the services are still less reliable, and worse considerably more expensive than my telkom line. These alternatives really only work if you live in a metro area where, apart from anything else, you have choices. For us country bumpkins we either don't have at all, or very limited choices, and while we accept that is the price we pay for other benefits, we don't like being screwed over and given a horrible non-existent option in exchange for what we have that is working just fine.
 
Zoomzoom said:
Doesn't alter the fact that the services are still less reliable, and worse considerably more expensive than my telkom line. These alternatives really only work if you live in a metro area where, apart from anything else, you have choices. For us country bumpkins we either don't have at all, or very limited choices, and while we accept that is the price we pay for other benefits, we don't like being screwed over and given a horrible non-existent option in exchange for what we have that is working just fine.
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Actually might be ok for you country Bumkins if they have a service, in the metros they ended up congested messes.
Of course all pointless if they are not in your area.
 
ToxicBunny said:
You are loss-making customer (quite possibly), if you are in a rural area... from a bottom line point of view, you are NOT a desirable customer to have on the books.
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Years ago as part of telkoms licence agreement they had to roll out services to rural disadvantaged areas for 5yrs or be fined, they had x amount of targets to meet anually. After two or three years of rolling out copper & dect services, constantly replacing infrastructure due to theft and dealing with non payment they opted for the fines as it worked out much cheaper.
 
I have a rock solid VDSL connection at home. I really don't want to be moved away from it.

It'd be stupid of Telkom to terminate our services given that Vuma is the fibre provider. Unlikely to make Telkom my ISP.
 
Totempole said:
I have a rock solid VDSL connection at home. I really don't want to be moved away from it.

It'd be stupid of Telkom to terminate our services given that Vuma is the fibre provider. Unlikely to make Telkom my ISP.
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If Vuma is in the area then, your vdsl is probably rock solid since most people moved over to fibre
 
isie said:
If Vuma is in the area then, your vdsl is probably rock solid since most people moved over to fibre
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I had VDSL much longer than Vuma has been in my area. Unfortunately Vuma can't accommodate me based on my specific needs, otherwise moving would have been a no-brainer.

In order to switch to Vuma, I'll have to purchase at least 20GBs of LTE data as well for everything to work out.
 
Totempole said:
I had VDSL much longer than Vuma has been in my area. Unfortunately Vuma can't accommodate me based on my specific needs, otherwise moving would have been a no-brainer.

In order to switch to Vuma, I'll have to purchase at least 20GBs of LTE data as well for everything to work out.
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Oh you use Telkom's mobile free data ?
 
H1TMANlol said:
Has anyone done this migration ? I have an 8 meg uncapped ADSL plan and I do +- 450gigs a month on it. I seriously dont see them giving us this same cap on LTE . Can someone please confirm ?

When I called in to Telkom , They said that its a 150 gig limit and then drops speed in half weather you chose the 4meg or 10 meg LTE deal. This is BS
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The throttling depends on what's the chances of rain for the day
 
H1TMANlol said:
Has anyone done this migration ? I have an 8 meg uncapped ADSL plan and I do +- 450gigs a month on it. I seriously dont see them giving us this same cap on LTE . Can someone please confirm ?

When I called in to Telkom , They said that its a 150 gig limit and then drops speed in half weather you chose the 4meg or 10 meg LTE deal. This is BS
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Same boat.

Already moved away from Telkom's crappy mobile LTE service that I had since they launched, and will also cancel the 40+ year old fixed line with them if they stop the VDSL service in the area.

If they can't offer us the same speeds and data caps that we currently have for the same prices, they can shove it.

That would be moving backwards.
 
isie said:
Oh you use Telkom's mobile free data ?
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Wait.. what? Free data?

Only reason I can't solely use Vuma is that a dynamic IP is a must for me.

My usage is also way too high to solely use LTE. Latency is moderately important to me as well.
 
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