An open letter to Telkom's CEO

The_Unbeliever

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Dear Sir

It is with grave concern that I note that Neotel is making inroads and managing to get new clients from all over South Africa.

Nowhere can I see that Telkom is active with cutting their prices and increasing their line speeds all across the board regarding their various products, but still continue with the status quo.

Instead of waiting for Icasa to give the go-ahead for lower pricing, you should already be doing this - start offering bandwidth at reasonable prices and capping to your existing clients. A reasonable cap is not 3Gb, for most of us it is too small.

My suggestion would be to increase the caps with 10Gb all across the board, and cut your prices with 20% to 30% for all products immediately.

Otherwise Telkom runs the danger of following Sentech and iBurst into the cold, dark night.

I thank you for your time reading my open letter, and would like to hear your side of the story.

Kind regards.

Disgruntled Telkom client and user.
 
Lemme sign it as well before you mail it off. Will even put me real name and adress there for the fsckers.. telkom acct number too if they want it
 
Dude, if they dropped the price how will they afford the big bonus at the end of the year for another job well done?
 
I see the country's universities are all waiting to sign deals with Neotel/IS. UFS alone pays over 1.5mil annually for their net connection and I know we don't have the most expensive/fastest connection of the bunch.
 
Dude, if they dropped the price how will they afford the big bonus at the end of the year for another job well done?

Not my problem. It is their problem.

My bottom line is that I want to afford the line, not pay their bonuses. They will have to work for their bonuses by getting more people and start delivering a proper service, not this mickey-mouse service they're running at the moment.

Once they get more people then they will be able to afford bonuses. The way things are going, they haven't been able to afford any bonuses this year - because they lost too many customers due to their exorbitant pricing.
 
I see the country's universities are all waiting to sign deals with Neotel/IS. UFS alone pays over 1.5mil annually for their net connection and I know we don't have the most expensive/fastest connection of the bunch.

R1.5million annually? Now that is a LOT of good money... :eek:

Telkom will lose that income - but I don't pity them, they will have to face the consequences of their own actions.
 
UKZN at last count, a few years ago, was paying in excess of R2m per year for their connection.
 
I've got a feeling Telkom is going down the same dark road as Eishkom... And I couldn't be more happier for decent competition to enter the market!

I saw them working on Main road in Bryanston two days ago - they've got nice signs saying "Neotel at work" next to the road... I thought that was a very good marketing initiative...
 
Quick question: will you people move to Neotel even if their price is the same, and they offers the same ****ty products?
 
I see the country's universities are all waiting to sign deals with Neotel/IS. UFS alone pays over 1.5mil annually for their net connection and I know we don't have the most expensive/fastest connection of the bunch.



Viva Adam Smith, viva!
 
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