Telkom marketing at it again?
Roland Giesler <[email protected]>
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Just received a pamphlet in the mail from Telkom touting their new "Simple" bundle. (Note: not totally a bad offering!) On it is a FAQ and the first question reads: * What does kbps mean? Kilobytes per second. This is the speed at which your line is downloading the information from and uploading the information to the internet. For instance, at 384kbps, a 3MB file, which is more or less the size of your average music file, would probably take a little over 30 second to download The problem, of course, is that the Hoi Polloi out there, have no idea that it will actually take 7 minutes to download a 3MB file at 386kbps, not "just over 30 seconds". This may not be a deal breaker, but Telkom (and Vodacom, MTN in the past) have worked so hard to mislead South Africans that what they offer is broadband instead of naming it thinband, that this just rubs me up the wrong way completely. And millions of people have received this and so the darkness continues. Would this be something that can be taken up by some industry body like ISPA or does this fall in the ASA's jurisdiction. regards Roland Giesler _______________________________________________ IOZ mailing list [email protected] http://lists.internet.org.za/mailman/listinfo/ioz