Video-on-demand in the works from Telkom

Oh crap man. I don't think we should allow any more announcements from this company until a majority of users see some actual results from all their past "announcements" :mad:
 
Did Telkom not sell their broadcasting license after a year of doing nothing with it and a spectacular R400M loss?

This sounds like a dead horse flogging itself sheesh...
 
Garyvdh said:
Oh crap man. I don't think we should allow any more announcements from this company until a majority of users see some actual results from all their past "announcements" :mad:
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True story this.
 
Garyvdh said:
Oh crap man. I don't think we should allow any more announcements from this company until a majority of users see some actual results from all their past "announcements" :mad:
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I could not agree with you more, right now all they should be doing is getting their infrastructure which already cannot cope up to standard and leave it for the other ISP's to then provide the service.
 
How about first installing more mini-DSLAMs first so that we don't get crappy line attenuations that prevent us from getting the advertised ADSL speed? Then move onto new and wonderful things.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
How about first installing more mini-DSLAMs first so that we don't get crappy line attenuations that prevent us from getting the advertised ADSL speed? Then move onto new and wonderful things.
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Replace all DLAMs with the latest and greatest MSAN tachnology vs replace DSLAM with another one with more ports.

What would you want them to do? :)
 
Any competition to Monochoice at this point will be a good thing.
 
All of this is just a pipe dream, they need to get their current infrastructure to handle the current load 1st. They not even finished with the 1-2mb upgrades yet..
 
Maybe telkom should just start at the bottom. You can't build a house starting at the roof, ignoring the foundation. Make a plan with your 384 farce internet before you start dreaming of streaming. :mad:
 
Telkom's contention ratio will have to be lowered to support HD content, think about:

20:1 will not work, 4 people all downloading at the same time and the other 16 people will be buggered per say...
 
I walked passed a Telkom shop today and saw a Boxxee in the window... I did a bit of a double take.

This is obviously the reason.
Its a big move and I think that Telkom are perfectly placed to do this. They can host the content and provide it at a very affordable rate.

Its good news... despite the naysayers
 
Hummercellc said:
Telkom's contention ratio will have to be lowered to support HD content, think about:

20:1 will not work, 4 people all downloading at the same time and the other 16 people will be buggered per say...
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Just FYI, the contention ratio has to do with international content.
They can provide local data at a much better rate so its not going to necessarily have that kind of effect on other peoples connections.

Look at how Telkom are throwing around local data for free.
 
So if they say nothing then everybody says they are not interested in the future and when they make an announcement regarding the future everybody rants...

damned if they do, damned if they don't.
 
MickeyD said:
So if they say nothing then everybody says they are not interested in the future and when they make an announcement regarding the future everybody rants...

damned if they do, damned if they don't.
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I think the bigger issue that people are upset about is that there doesn't seem to be much movement in addressing existing, more urgent matters. They're trialling 40 Mbps when then can't even deliver 2 Mbps reliably to many people.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
I think the bigger issue that people are upset about is that there doesn't seem to be much movement in addressing existing, more urgent matters. They're trialling 40 Mbps when then can't even deliver 2 Mbps reliably to many people.
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Why use scarce resources on upgrading folks from 384 to 2048 when you have a MSAN/ISAM program being rolled out? Or must they first give everybody 1024 and then 10Mbps and then start looking at VDSL in 10 years time?
 
MickeyD said:
Why use scarce resources on upgrading folks from 384 to 2048 when you have a MSAN/ISAM program being rolled out? Or must they first give everybody 1024 and then 10Mbps and then start looking at VDSL in 10 years time?
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Wouldn't be an issue if they sorted out the existing ADSL infrastructure years ago. What have they been busy doing all this time? Only a tiny fraction of their user base is able to get 10 Mbps right now, and the infrastructure upgrades required to deliver this started a while back, so who knows how long it will take before VDSL is able to reach everyone. Should 90% of ADSL users have to wait years before VDSL is available to them? Why should they have to put up with unreliable connections that keep dropping in the mean time? It's incredibly frustrating.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
Wouldn't be an issue if they sorted out the existing ADSL infrastructure years ago. What have they been busy doing all this time? Only a tiny fraction of their user base is able to get 10 Mbps right now, and the infrastructure upgrades required to deliver this started a while back, so who knows how long it will take before VDSL is able to reach everyone. Should 90% of ADSL users have to wait years before VDSL is available to them? Why should they have to put up with unreliable connections that keep dropping in the mean time? It's incredibly frustrating.
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Tell that to the biggest shareholder who wants universal service, not best service.
 
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