Why?

[kaspaas]

I always wondered why does Telkom have spead limits as well as total bandwidth capping?

Surely one can control "abuse" with either of these.

It would make sense to provide the fastes line possible selling capped access packages. This way people will be able to "waste" their bandwidth faster and buy more "doses" of bandwidth.

 

[Vio]

Surely one can control "abuse" with either of these.

I asume you mean "without either of these"

 

[rsachoc]

I always wondered why does Telkom have spead limits as well as total bandwidth capping?

They do this because that way they can extract as much money as they can from both the line rental as well as the accounts themselves.

Why charge less when you can charge more?

 

[stoke]

It gives them a controllable means of estimating the bandwidth usage on the international lines on a month-to-month basis, so they can quantify their profit as they laugh their pants off while we pay for their piece of the submarine cables over and over.

I mean, imagine we had no limits, nobody would be moaning and teklom would not get their free advertising to get more people to buy shares. Everybody wants shares in a company that has complete and utter monopolistic control.

The more they ripp us poor dumbassess off, the richer they get, the more free marketing they get and the more shares are traded and the richer they get and ...

Sigh. 3 years and the tune has not changed 1 micro mm.