This was sent to me by a colleague. Worth a laugh.
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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 café,
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 Café (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!
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OMG this is the best thing ever – did you send it to Hellkom? This needs to be published far and wide. Honestly. Sigh….
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Did you know?
Did you know it’s cheaper to fly to Hong Kong than download a 100GB file in South Africa. http://nathanielstern.com/blog/?p=881. Yea I know that ADSL line rental has dropped a little and you may squeak some higher caps but it’s close
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