Telkom or Hong Kong – what a choice.
This is taken from MyADSL Forums – thanks to these guys for always fighting for better connections.
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We all know that Telkom has ridiculously high telecoms charges – that’s no secret.
But whenever a comparison is made to other countries, Telkom has a tantrum like a spoilt child stating that it’s unfair to compare South Africa to other countries.
I decided to do a little comparison to show how expensive it really is… so here are the results of the investigation.
I compared the time and costs involved in downloading 100GB of data over Telkom’s fastest ADSL offering (1Mbps) with the time and costs involved in flying to Hong Kong, visiting an Internet cafý, downloading 100GB of data at their fastest speed (1Gbps), and flying back.
Yep… that’s quite a challenge! And here are the details:
Telkom
Line speed = 1Mbps
Download Size = 100GB
Estimated Download Time = 9.5 days
ISP (34 x 3GB accounts @ R269) = R 9,146.00
Line Rental (ADSL) = R 680.00
Line Rental (Residential Voice) = R 92.28
TOTAL = R 9,918.28
Hong Kong
Line speed = 1Gbps
Download Size = 100GB
Estimated Download Time = 13 minutes
Flight (SAA) = R 7,942.00
Internet Cafý (average cost @ HKD20) = R 17.43
TOTAL = R 7,959.43
Difference: Hong Kong is cheaper by R 1,958.85
So to sum up… it’s cheaper and quicker to fly to Hong Kong if you want to download 100GB of data!
I haven’t got the time to work out where the two converge, but it just shows how badly we’re being ripped off!
