[Kictanet] 'Cheaper to fly than use ADSL'

[Dorcas Muthoni]

Hi All,

The article was refering to how expensive Internet access is from Telkom 
SA. As had been indicated, follow this link for 
more:http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?newslett=1&click_id=79&art_id=vn20051114062722287C918494&set_id=1

By visiting that link, you will actually have a feel of their speeds,

Muthoni



Alex Gakuru wrote:

>My understanding from James Njuguna's posting was the
>reference was Telkom
>SA?
>Dorcas elaborate your thread!
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "John Walubengo" <jwalubengo at kcct.ac.ke>
>To: <dmuthoni at kenet.or.ke>; <kictanet at kictanet.or.ke>
>Cc: <jkrukaria at telkom.co.ke>; <Hkinoti at telkom.co.ke>;
><Tasenaji at telkom.co.ke>
>Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 5:09 AM
>Subject: Re: [Kictanet] 'Cheaper to fly than use ADSL'
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>>Aiih!
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>>Is this true or money has been poured to tarnish an
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>otherwise good name of
>TKL?
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>>any comment from Rukaria? Eng. Kinoti? Eng. Senaji?
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>>walu.
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>>>>>Dorcas Muthoni <dmuthoni at kenet.or.ke> 11/14/05
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>>'Cheaper to fly than use ADSL'
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>>If you don't eat or stay over, you could fly to Hong
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>Kong and download
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>>100 gigabytes of data from the Internet, fly back to
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>South Africa and
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>>pay less than if you were to download that amount of
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>information using
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>>Telkom's ADSL service.
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>>Even taking into account the duration of the return
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>flight, you could be
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>>back in South Africa days before you could complete
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>the download here.
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>>This is according to Durban software developer
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>Stuart Gunter, who has
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>>posted on an Internet forum the findings of an
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>investigation that show
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>>just how internationally uncompetitive Telkom's ADSL
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>service is compared
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>>to the rest of the world.
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>>For the rest of the story visit:
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>http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?newslett=1&click_id=79&art_id=vn20051114062722287C918494&set_id=1
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