The Telkom conspiracy ??

[pupa]

We were all taken for a huge scam by TELKOM re these 30Gig accounts

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?p=336223#post336223

Just follow the links, more will be added in this thread in due cause to see for yourselfs as this saga plays out

They knew about it, they agreed with the ISP's to it with NDA's in place, they had their own typical agenda, used it as a smokescreen while they created a bigger money making monster scheme for 1 November, The "per Gig Billing system". ISP's is now coming forward, taking them to court, Lodge complaints at Icasa. We take the flact as the abusers with some of the ISP's to be made the culprits.

How Bl@@dy conveniant. That is why they will be the biggest loser "IF" the goverment have the will to do anything about it.

 

[lukev]

I was Chatting to a friend who knows a friend etc who believes that the per-gig billing system was introduced to curb VOIP usage to protect Telkom's telephone call revenues. He went on to say that it had nothing to do with the high-cap accounts or bandwidth abusers. Anyone heard something similar?

 

[R4tt3xx]

If you don't use SAIX, u should be able to buy more local bandwidth at a fraction of the price. That's what competition is all about.

 

[Peapod]

way back in the day when i first started fighting for ADSL in our neck of the woods, i recall Hans VD Groenendal saying something about per gig billing - that was in 2003.
I mean look at it, why introduce a cap if your ultimate objective isnt to create a demand for more bandwidth? If there was no agenda to begin with, why the cap in the first place?

 

[NoADSLyet]

Money, Money Money make you criminal and sic, TELKOM needs some anti viral medication.

 

[lukev]

I mean look at it, why introduce a cap if your ultimate objective isnt to create a demand for more bandwidth? If there was no agenda to begin with, why the cap in the first place?

Agreed here, so it looks like they're just trying to make more revenue out of bandwidth. Makes me real sick - it's not like bandwidth is a resource that will run out. Per-gig billing is a step back for broadband in SA.

 

[Jack Goa]

It's a sick joke is what it is. I'm so embarassed to mention on international forums that we get capped, they can't believe it, it's a foreign concept..

 

[MaD]

I was Chatting to a friend who knows a friend etc who believes that the per-gig billing system was introduced to curb VOIP usage to protect Telkom's telephone call revenues. He went on to say that it had nothing to do with the high-cap accounts or bandwidth abusers. Anyone heard something similar?

As a matter of interest, some calculations based on a VoIP conversation using Skype (+-4KB/s either way):

1GB = +- 35 hours talk time
2GB = +- 70 hours talk time
3GB = +- 107 hours talk time
4GB = +- 142 hours talk time
5GB = +- 178 hours talk time
10GB = +- 357 hours talk time

So even with a 1GB account you can talk for just over an hour per day every day. Although using a Telkom line to make a local call for the same 35 hours will set you back 798 beans, and the same amount of time for a national call will set you back 1680 beans.

But at the cheapest price of a 192K line + R99 ISP + R92 line rental it will come to R461 beans which is almost half price if you only call from PC to PC.