It looks like Telkom is in a bit of a pickle over its recent " Do Broadband " advertising. A post on MyBroadband details the complaint from a consumer that says its false advertising. Mr Moorad lodged a consumer complaint against Telkom’s “do” broadband campaign, arguing that the advertisements claims of being suitable for ‘movies, gaming and music’ is misleading. According to the ASA website, the complainant submitted that the advertising states that one can “do” music, movies and on-line...
This morning I attended the First Tuesday breakfast session on IPTV . Rishaal from Accenture presented a global view of IPTV and whatnot and it was really boring. Next up was Jonathan Newman, head of strategy at MultiChoice. He effectively left the audience believing that IPTV would not be possible in South Africa until Telkom reduced the cost of broadband bandwidth as the current practice of Internet usage capping would lead to prohibitive costs for the consumer. However he failed to clarify to...
Recently the incumbant fixed line telecoms operator in South Africa (Telkom) decided to upgrade all consumer 1Mbps ADSL lines to a potential 4Mbps service for a trial of video on demand. As soon as I heard of this free upgrade for the beta I decided to upgrade my measly home 512Kbps service to 1Mbps. After a few days of nothing happening I magically noticed a 200KB/sec download of the .NET Framework 3.0 RC1 from Microsoft. Its amazing how a little bit of a speed boost can make such a difference to...