Telkom set to upgrade ADSL speeds

Kuga said:
5 steps for us to get FTH :

1) Unbundle the local loop
2) ANC must get their fingers out of Telkom's pie
3) Give ICASA the proper authority to actually regulate this joke we have as a telecoms industry
4) ???
5) Profit
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2) Chop ANC's Fingers off... Better option, and telkom to stop baking pies and run a proper telecoms company

3) Give ICASA somebody guards so that they can stand on two legs behindd them and make decisions

4) Neotel i presume? Become a landline based company instead of competing against telkom while acting like a Cellular Provider (you remind me of Sentech)

5) Profit??? Lower Prices Push Volume, people will buy if its cheap... Compete against other ISP, they have lower adsl rentals than you (telkom).
 
ZAP_Tech said:
lol, okay i wish everyone... If you need more speed, you could go ehm... Cell C or Vodacom or wait patiently for telkom to get with the program..
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Option 1: Pay more than you can afford for internet, leaving you eating only moldy bread for dinner every night; End up dying from penicillin poisoning. (Vodacom/MTN)
Option 2: Stay where you are and wait for Telkom, leaving you eating more than you can afford ending up overweight and dying; Not being able to afford the medical bills.

Hey, either way, at least we can be certain that everybody gets screwed equally, yah?!
 
Tank said:
well things are looking up :)

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Mine looks pretty much the same.

I'm on a Mweb 512kbps uncapped and am paying R599 to them. Currently my ADSL router is showing my line syncing at 1024 down and my downloads avg between 0.80Mbps - 0.87Mbps. I have not changed or done anything different and will see bill at the end of the month, but for now I'm smiling!
 
... for uncapped.

some people are using capped accounts still.

512 should really have become 4mb as it is still pointless to buy a 512/1mb line when you can get a 10mb for less than R100 extra.
 
I think they going to try a good wa to phase out an old speed (would say tech, but they still using copper). So normal thing would be upgrade everything around the lowest point, so they made 4mb go to 8/10mb, and now changed 512kb to 1mb, if they get people to move over to the 1mb service, they effectively scrap the 384kb service. But they again tey need a bit of a price reduction on the 512kb service giving it more value. May turning the Do level 2 broadband priced at R269 to 512kb/1mb service. That would get people to jump quick.
 
Zomosa said:
Man! I wish they can upgrade the 384 kbs lines too. :cry:
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I think 1Mbps lines should be entry level nowadays anyway. Still waiting for that 4Mbps to 8/10Mbps upgrade to happen to more than a hand full of people as well
 
Still not worth it to get the middle of the range, my personal opinion is that you can either afford either a 384k or a 4Mb line, 1Mb lines aren't really cost effective in comparison
 
ZAP_Tech said:
I think its up from 10000 4mb lines to about 20000 LMAO... kidding, but I thought they would upgrade the 384kb line also to atleast 512KB. but i guess wouldn't make finacial sense cause people will still skip the 1mb line to go for the 4/10mb option cause of price difference.

Best upgrade route would have been:

384kb = 1mb
512kb = 2/4mb
4mb = 8/12mb

Atleast for the meantime.
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I believe the original plan (stated somewhere around November '09) was for 384 -> 512, 512 -> 4096, 4096 -> 10/12mb. I am hoping that they at least still plan on bringing all speeds up across the board, tired of hearing from these people that come back from UK, US, etc. that had 20mb fibre last mile connections for next to nothing :(
 
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