Telkom ADSL vs Hong Kong – The Challenge!

I received this from a dear friend of mine over the weekend – and it is just so typical of  of the ‘new’ post 1994 South Africa – everyone is now out for themselves ripping off everyone else without a second thought!  Read this and you will understand!

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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.

A little comparison to show how expensive it really is… so here are the results of the investigation.

It 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!