Interesting, wonder what Telkom's motivation is? I'm guessing with the proliferation of cellphones and ADSL their fixed line PSTN is becoming underutilised so this way ISPs can afford to offer cheaper dialup accounts and thereby increase usage. Could be the same motivation for all the closer plans.
The public have a right to know, it is after all their / our money - one can understand why they would not want the public to know, but you cannot have back doors - it is bad enough that people have to pay for a service that could be un metered, but now take this curse of a charge and hand it out to others like hush money is just to much
Clearly Telkodemonopolies is trying its worst to protect its obsolete dialup market & revenue stream.
My suggestion, to kill dialup at a faster rate, is that !CASA needs to create a regulation that expressly prohibits lengthy dialup contracts, such that all dialup customers can get out of a dialup contract by giving 30 days notice and not be tied into dialup for 12 months or more as is currently the case.
Local call should be free. We've had this discussion so many times before. Telkom is simply trying to protect its per minute and per second analogue business.
when i had a dial up connection, i used to download over 25GB of stuff a month- it was slower but if i had to compare the two i prefer dial up- for the simple reason that there is no cap.
and for some reason(please feel free to tell me if anyone knows why) i used to get a better connection to the P2P networks-much better than i do with ADSL- and i have XP SP2 and Mcafee antivirus and firewall.
if only telkom would offer a flat rate of R250 monthly for unlimited dial up internet use- i would pick that until our ADSL offerings are decent.