'Cheaper to fly than use ADSL'

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Sneeky

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Stuart's maths homework pops up again, this time in the Mercury with full credit giving.
Good job SG.

Gunter said the grand total using Telkom's services amounted to R9 918.28, compared to the cost in Hong Kong - including air travel and internet cafe use at R7 959.43 - making the technologically advanced Asian country R1 958.85 cheaper. Telkom's Group Corporate Communications Executive, Lulu Letlape, was not available to comment on the website posting at the time of going to print.
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Wahaha
However, a spokesman distanced Telkom from the charges levied for ADSL services, saying that internet service providers were responsible for setting charges for end use. She declined to disclose Telkom's cost price to internet service providers under its new billing system.
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Lulu might not have been available for comment but her clone was!

http://www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=283&fArticleId=2993477
 
I imagine alot of firms or people with contacts overseas are having heavy downloads done in USA etc and burned to CD's which are DHL'd or Fedexed here.
 
I love the "ISP setting charges" quote. Especially considering the calculation explicitly states it's using Telkom wholesale prices!

What wankers.
 
Thumbs up to IOL for getting the attribution right (I think). Stories like this are great because they get out the message in a way that anyone can understand. I works much better than using technical lingo.

For example, if I say to a non techy person:

"In the UK I can get ADSL2 24mbps for the same price as I get a 512K connection here"

They'll just hear:

"In the UK I can get bla bla bla for the same price as bla bla here"

But using the flying analogy makes it pretty clear that our ADSL is a huge ripoff cos people know how expensive flying is. Another good example is the 1000% more expensive story that rpm came up with. Nice going guys!
 
More Telkom lies:

The Fine Article said:
However, a spokesperson distanced Telkom from the charges levied for ADSL services, saying that Internet service providers were responsible for setting charges for end use.
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maybe i'm nitpicking but these articles all seem to get their bits and bytes mixed up. telkom does not have a 1 megaBYTE service.
 
I'm starting a data mule service.
contact me if you want to get data personally couriered.
 
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