S&P changes Telkom outlook to negative

I am pretty critical of Telkom, but where I am sitting now they provide me with the fastest internet for my money - and the most stable. The same cannot be said for Vodacom, MTN and Cell C. I get 6MB/sec from telkom but I am lucky if I can get 1MB/sec from any of these wireless providers. I am currently sitting in Uvongo and both MTN and Vodacom can only provide me with dial up speeds. Shocking service levels from both of them. It was my understanding from articles I read on this site two years ago that both MTN and Vodacom were upgrading their systems to deal with backhaul issues - going tower to tower and using fibre. It's about time they stopped putting so much money into shareholders pockets and started developing "world class internet" as neither oif them are delivering even close to world class internet.
 
What wireless option is truly a match for fixed line internet?
 
brentmin said:
I am pretty critical of Telkom, but where I am sitting now they provide me with the fastest internet for my money - and the most stable. The same cannot be said for Vodacom, MTN and Cell C.
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Wait, you're applauding Telkom for strong-arming competition out of the fixed line arena and for constantly using their team of lawyers to protect their government-sanctioned quasi-monopoly? Shows what you know. The reason Telkom is the ONLY provider for the services you are praising them for is the same reason why we don't really like them. If there WAS an alternative, we'd all be using it. I guess when you've got the tiger by the tail, best you don't let go, eh?

Juice
 
noxibox said:
What wireless option is truly a match for fixed line internet?
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Fair enough, but this excuse is as old as the hills and one that is propogated my MTN and Vodacom. When I visit countries like the US, UK - even Cambodia, at least in the cities I can get a reasnably decent level of internet service. Right now it takes three minutes to open a web page and sending and receiving mail causes my Outlook to freeze up. Connecting to our exchange server at the office is not posible at all. How can this, in any way, be an acceptable world class service? I don't expect the same level of service I get in the countries mentioned, but I do expect a reasonable level of service. 1megabit would be great right now I don't even get 152kbit per second. The smae thing happened to me visiting Harmanus in September, Botha's Hill in October and Phalaborwa in May. Need I say more?
 
Juice said:
Wait, you're applauding Telkom for strong-arming competition out of the fixed line arena and for constantly using their team of lawyers to protect their government-sanctioned quasi-monopoly? Shows what you know. The reason Telkom is the ONLY provider for the services you are praising them for is the same reason why we don't really like them. If there WAS an alternative, we'd all be using it. I guess when you've got the tiger by the tail, best you don't let go, eh?

Juice
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No, you're the one who needs to wake up. For more than two years now MTN and Vodacom have been free to lay their own cables. In somne areas like Sandton they have done this while the rest of us not so wealthy plebs have to pay for it at the rates we have been paying. In Cape Town around the N1 City area MTN has laid their own fibre network and its a pleasure to use it. I think it's about time the internet users community really became vocal and spoke out on this matter. I think the thing that grates me most is that MTN has the cheek to call their internet service "world class" when countries like Uganda and Nigeria, in their cities are already providing a better service.

I am not applauding Telkom at all. But right now they do provide me an excellent internet service, especially as I am a web programmer that has to connect to his servers at data centers. Until MTN and Vodacom can stop enriching their shareholders unfairly and spend more on their networks and infrastructure instead of blaming Telkom for their woes while their corporates are driving expensive cars on holiday here on the Durban South Coast the better it will be for all of us.
 
Well if telkom disconnected all other communications providers in south Africa ....non but Telkom would work..every one uses telkom network bar non
 
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