Re: [Kictanet] 'Cheaper to fly than use ADSL'
Aiih!
Is this true or money has been poured to tarnish an otherwise good name of TKL?
any comment from Rukaria? Eng. Kinoti? Eng. Senaji?
walu.
Dorcas Muthoni <dmuthoni@kenet.or.ke> 11/14/05 10:52am >>> 'Cheaper to fly than use ADSL'
If you don't eat or stay over, you could fly to Hong Kong and download 100 gigabytes of data from the Internet, fly back to South Africa and pay less than if you were to download that amount of information using Telkom's ADSL service.
Even taking into account the duration of the return flight, you could be back in South Africa days before you could complete
My understanding from James Njuguna's posting was the reference was Telkom SA? Dorcas elaborate your thread! ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Walubengo" <jwalubengo@kcct.ac.ke> To: <dmuthoni@kenet.or.ke>; <kictanet@kictanet.or.ke> Cc: <jkrukaria@telkom.co.ke>; <Hkinoti@telkom.co.ke>; <Tasenaji@telkom.co.ke> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 5:09 AM Subject: Re: [Kictanet] 'Cheaper to fly than use ADSL' the download here.
This is according to Durban software developer
Stuart Gunter, who has
posted on an Internet forum the findings of an investigation that show just how internationally uncompetitive Telkom's ADSL service is compared to the rest of the world.
For the rest of the story visit:
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?newslett=1&click_id=79&art_id=vn20051114062722287C918494&set_id=1
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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@kcct.ac.ke> To: <dmuthoni@kenet.or.ke>; <kictanet@kictanet.or.ke> Cc: <jkrukaria@telkom.co.ke>; <Hkinoti@telkom.co.ke>; <Tasenaji@telkom.co.ke> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 5:09 AM Subject: Re: [Kictanet] 'Cheaper to fly than use ADSL'
Aiih!
Is this true or money has been poured to tarnish an
otherwise good name of TKL?
any comment from Rukaria? Eng. Kinoti? Eng. Senaji?
walu.
Dorcas Muthoni <dmuthoni@kenet.or.ke> 11/14/05
10:52am >>>
'Cheaper to fly than use ADSL'
If you don't eat or stay over, you could fly to Hong
Kong and download
100 gigabytes of data from the Internet, fly back to
South Africa and
pay less than if you were to download that amount of
information using
Telkom's ADSL service.
Even taking into account the duration of the return
flight, you could be
back in South Africa days before you could complete
the download here.
This is according to Durban software developer
Stuart Gunter, who has
posted on an Internet forum the findings of an
investigation that show
just how internationally uncompetitive Telkom's ADSL
service is compared
to the rest of the world.
For the rest of the story visit:
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?newslett=1&click_id=79&art_id=vn20051114062722287C918494&set_id=1
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