kaspaas
Expert Member
There is a real need for fixed IP ADSL - it will make startup costs for new SOHO's lower.
Everybody is crying for job creation and economic growth.
One of the most crippling factors to a new business is the montly Telkom account compared to many other developed countries.
Entrepreneurs with limited capital often simply can't afford to pay more for Internet access than cost of an admin staff member.
ADSL could offer a cost effective solution for SOHO entrepreneurs. (I'm one so I'll know).
Currently I have gone the ADSL route in search for a cost effective connectivity solution - my data needs are 90% for local traffic - the cap is a nuisance, but not killing my needs. But I'm forced to purchase e-mail additional to my ADSL.
If I had a fixed IP for my ADSL (even if it is interrupted each day for byte counting purposes), I would have been able to operate my own mail server on site (which I anyway do for internal mail) and saved the cost of an external mail service.
The total bandwidth I can consume is taken care of anyway by the cap. Telkom has nothing to loose by doing this.
Or are they scared that too many will cancel their overpriced under utilized 64k diginet lines?
And of course, if Telkom did deliver on the advertised "up to" speeds for even just for local traffic, it would help a lot!
Everybody is crying for job creation and economic growth.
One of the most crippling factors to a new business is the montly Telkom account compared to many other developed countries.
Entrepreneurs with limited capital often simply can't afford to pay more for Internet access than cost of an admin staff member.
ADSL could offer a cost effective solution for SOHO entrepreneurs. (I'm one so I'll know).
Currently I have gone the ADSL route in search for a cost effective connectivity solution - my data needs are 90% for local traffic - the cap is a nuisance, but not killing my needs. But I'm forced to purchase e-mail additional to my ADSL.
If I had a fixed IP for my ADSL (even if it is interrupted each day for byte counting purposes), I would have been able to operate my own mail server on site (which I anyway do for internal mail) and saved the cost of an external mail service.
The total bandwidth I can consume is taken care of anyway by the cap. Telkom has nothing to loose by doing this.
Or are they scared that too many will cancel their overpriced under utilized 64k diginet lines?
And of course, if Telkom did deliver on the advertised "up to" speeds for even just for local traffic, it would help a lot!
