Telkom offers cheap broadband

I read the article but where is the cheap internet?
"I'm fairly sure this is the cheapest broadband option in the market now," says Stephen Hayward, the managing executive of Telkom's retail marketing division.
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Really nothing to brag about there Stevo. That is like saying someone is slightly less dead - it's still a rip off!
 
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The economies of scale which will flow from that could result in further price reductions for users, says Hayward.
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The consumer has been fooled with that 'BS' before, not again.

edit: and really, where do these reporters get their headlines from? Cheap by what std exactly, certainly not a global one :sick:
 
In a free market, a company that waits for years until economies of scale appear before dropping prices correspondingly, is a dead company. Just more BS and lies to fool the public (and government perhaps).
 
DavidJ said:
In a free market, a company that waits for years until economies of scale appear before dropping prices correspondingly, is a dead company. Just more BS and lies to fool the public (and government perhaps).
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In a competing market economies of scale means a company prices a product in such a way that they can quickly build up a lot of customers in order to achive economies of scale, once that has been reached they start making a profit from the price they have been charging, not the other way arround as Telkom seems to believe.
 
From government point of view:

Mbeki: "Telkom, you must provide cheap Internet"
Telkom: ""I'm fairly sure this is the cheapest broadband option in the market now,"

Tick.

Job done.



NOT!
 
Sigh when am I gonna get cheap ADSL. Im not getting any younger and I wanna enjoy stuff like XBLive! without having to take out a mortgage on freaking internet or worrying about KB I have left before I hit the cap.
 
The headline is incorrect in 2 ways:
1) 384 is NOT broadband. It may well be a DSL offering but its not anywhere near the globally accepted concept of 'BROADBAND'
2) The cost is not 'cheap'
 
Amazing.. I think Icasa should have specified a minimum capacity for a product to be delacred broadband as well.
 
Oooooh .. new stuffs.
Me goes off to DoBroadband .....
Starts off with a 4MB FLASH thingy to download ...

the flash app is pretty,

So .. you get 3 options:
1 = 1GB of shaped bandwidth where you pay for local bandwidth consumed for R279 per month in a 24 month contract on a 348 DSL line, all inclusive. NOPE .. NOT ALL INCLUSIVE .. ADD 100 bucks for the Teklom line rental.
2 = 2GB of shaped bandwidth where you pay for local bandwidth consumed for R364 per month in a 24 month contract on a 512 DSL line, all inclusive. NOPE .. NOT ALL INCLUSIVE .. ADD 100 bucks for the Teklom line rental.
3 = 3GB of shaped bandwidth where you pay for local bandwidth consumed for R675 per month in a 24 month contract on a 1024 (4MB trial) DSL line, all inclusive. NOPE .. NOT ALL INCLUSIVE .. ADD 100 bucks for the Teklom line rental.


Soooo ... if I can buy more throughput after my 1GB is used up, I can get 3GB on a 384 line for R279 + R70 + R70 = R419. [the 2 R70's are WebAfrica's 1GB accounts]

That saves me some money, but now hang on .. what about the telehpone line rental cost?

Did that dissapear?

And ... why am i now in a 24 month contract?

/me calls 10219

Details: You have to pay the R90 bucks for the line, you get a 4 port wireless modem weather you like it or not, but now there is some confusion as to what exactly i'm talking about.

NEVERMIND ... I think we'll have to wait until the product is ready before we know the details.
 
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The article's name is "Telkom offers cheap broadband"

56kMan tries to comprehend.
56kMan fails.
 
"I'm fairly sure this is the cheapest broadband option in the market now," says Stephen Hayward, the managing executive of Telkom's retail marketing division.
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Shouldn't the ME of the Retail division know where his product ranks compared to anyone else's? What an a$$
 
Stephen Hayward is a PRAT!!!

Politeness prevents me from saying what I really think of him and his company. :sick:
 
I'm fairly sure Telkom are a bunch of extortionists.
 
ShaunSA said:
Stephen Hayward is a PRAT!!!

Politeness prevents me from saying what I really think of him and his company. :sick:
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You do realize that that's an insult to prats the world over?
Prepared to be sued by half the SA govt and George Bush....
 
stoke said:
So .. you get 3 options:
1 = 1GB of shaped bandwidth where you pay for local bandwidth consumed for R279 per month in a 24 month contract on a 348 DSL line, all inclusive. NOPE .. NOT ALL INCLUSIVE .. ADD 100 bucks for the Teklom line rental.
2 = 2GB of shaped bandwidth where you pay for local bandwidth consumed for R364 per month in a 24 month contract on a 512 DSL line, all inclusive. NOPE .. NOT ALL INCLUSIVE .. ADD 100 bucks for the Teklom line rental.
3 = 3GB of shaped bandwidth where you pay for local bandwidth consumed for R675 per month in a 24 month contract on a 1024 (4MB trial) DSL line, all inclusive. NOPE .. NOT ALL INCLUSIVE .. ADD 100 bucks for the Teklom line rental.
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All Do packages including Do Closers are free of contact.
Self install still gets free modem, extended to end April and perhaps further.
Do Closers include line rental in quoted price. e.g. Do Closer Level 3 = R936.
Information verified by Sam on 10219.
 
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