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Fixed and Mobile Broadband Solutions work together for your business

Upfront, we surmise that you have the need for both fixed and mobile broadband. However, the choice is based not on price, but the value both bring to your business. You need to consider which solution which job description in your business. In most cases, you will need both technologies for different activities.

  Fixed Broadband Mobile Broadband
Internet Browsing Excellent Good
Cloud based services Excellent OK
Site Connectivity Good, supports VPN Lite Expensive
Online Storage and Web-Hosting Excellent Good but Expensive
Email and Calendaring Rich Email Simple Email
Voice over Internet Excellent Expensive
Video Telephony and Conferencing Excellent Latency
Mobility inside of LAN Standard Wi-Fi Modems Possible
Mobility outside of LAN Not available Possible

The merits of fixed versus mobile broadband are shown below.

  Fixed Broadband Mobile Broadband
Advantages
  • Customers given choice of line speeds to match affordability and needs
  • High Download Allowances: download of high volume data at flat rate
  • Consistent quality of service, even during peak times of customer usage
  • Scalable for multi-user sites, with an opportunity for line bonding
  • Extendable within LAN via Wi-FI – many end users can use multiple devices over one fixed broadband connection, and a fixed subscription
  • Mobile connectivity anywhere, speed dependant on technology coverage
  • No line rental fee
  • Convenience since plug and play – no network installation time
Disadvantages
  • Subject to line rental and ADSL port costs, and fixed cost of usage
  • Service compromised by physical line constraints, such as copper quality, etc
  • Activation time dependent on location – outside of metropolitan or major suburbs, network build project required
  • Service requires setup of modem – mitigated through self-install options
  • Line speed not consistent – even with advertised line speeds of 7.2/21 Mbps, customers subject to congestion (cell breeding) – typical line speeds start at 115kbps
  • High costs for exceeding included bandwidth limit, usually charged per Mb
  • Signal not always good within multi-storey buildings
  • Signal not consistent or always connected
  • Customers need to buy one mobile line per user – sharing not possible
Suitability Suitable for your fixed business location for large application transfer and cloud-services, especially in multi-employee environments Suitable for mobile resources, for low bandwidth tasks (check email, looking for directions) – lower bandwidth for single user applications

A fixed service gives you the full flexibility and feature richness you need to evolve as a business. Our suggestion is for you to weigh up the features you want to use vs cost of each service. Compare the value of fixed vs mobile broadband on a value vs cost curve to make your decision.

Even as part of the Telkom Business Broadband journey, we offer you the benefit of mobility even before full FMC solutions are launched in the near future. We understand for example, your concern for availability, so we offer 3G enabled modems if your DSL is compromised for any reason. Combine fixed and mobile services from Telkom and you start anticipating our roadmap for the next few months of 2012. International research states this as the steps towards FMC, a path Telkom is on.

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Remember, Telkom Business is the only provider to give you fixed and mobile solutions.