Vodacom nails Telkom on ADSL claims

Good on Vodacom, "up to 4Mbps" is a load of crud, people should be receiving close to the max all the time depending on far they are from the exchange. Telkom just use this "up to" thing so that they don't have to answer to crappy speeds.
 
I dont know I'm on "up to 4mb" and I get 4mb just about all the time, the rest could be blamed on variables that have little to nothing to do with my actual line. The one bit of credit I have to give ADSL is that it's stable (although I'm paying through my a$$ for it). I have mates on Iburst and HSDPA, and they pull their hair out alot more often!
 
This will make it very tough for any broadband provider to clearly advertise their broadband service on maximum speed. Interesting situation that may develop...should you distinguish on average speeds?

BTW: This will not necessary strengthen relationships between the two telecoms providers :D
 
What a joke. Vodacoms speed is less reliable than Telkoms.

Will they now start differentiating between up and download (average) speed, as "a reasonable consumer" will believe them to be the same!
 
What about up to 17x faster than dial-up?

That seems trivial since it's dependent on the speed you actually got from dial-up...
 
rpm said:
BTW: This will not necessary strengthen relationships between the two telecoms providers :D
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I bet! This can only be a good thing IMO :)

So they will advertise for Small, Regular, and Supersize?

Who knows what loophole they will exploit next, but I'm sure their lawyers are working on it. Now only if ICASA couls find their teeth as well :p
 
Me hereby trademarks Telkom ADSL Slow™, Slower™, and Slowest™

Take that beast. :D
 
I don't think ICASA has any teeth left. They lost the last of them when they took down that pirate radio station the other day. :)
 
This places Telkom in a difficult position to advertise and differentiate between its current DSL offerings and it is not certain how it will be able to market its broadband services without mentioning speed.
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Here are a few helpful suggestions for Telkodemonopolies:
  1. Abandon your exorbitantly priced & tiered ADSL speed model by providing the maximum possible line speed to all ADSL customers - it is not necessary to limit line speed at the DSLAM port card bcos ADSL customers will still experience crappy ADSL due to distance from the exchange and bad copper quality
  2. Abandon your monthly ADSL Connectivity|Access rental fee and you will find that many more people will be able to afford ADSL which will give TelkodemonopoliesMedia a foot in door for IPTV
  3. Reduce the monthly analogue line rental fee to R50.00 inclusive of VAT, and you will find that your core business will spring back to life, in case you have forgotten what your core business is, it is providing wired fixed line services in South Africa.
  4. Give us ADSL2+ already, I'm tired of this HomeDSL313.6kbits/s line I'm stuck with - where is the fibre to my nearest roadside distribution box & a mini-DSLAM therein...
  5. Catch a wakeup Telkodemonopolies!!!
 
Bwahahaha, go Vodacom!

Coincidently has anyone actually received as much as reply from those two tools at ICASA who we were suppose to mail our complaints regarding Telkom's ignoring of the ADSL regulations? Or can we safely presume as predicted that those emails were deleted on site, after Telkom pays R5 for each email to dissapear?
 
with immediate effect - how long will this take/how long will they be given? this is the beast after all and they do as they please!

their dobroadband site is still displaying 'up to ...'

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