New Icasa chief considers fourth cellphone licence

MTN has said it would welcome more robust competition by the addition of a fourth operator.
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Yeah - cos the third license caused prices to tumble.
 
Cellphone firms deny they are overcharging customers and say they will resist efforts to impose price caps. MTN has said it would welcome more robust competition by the addition of a fourth operator.
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Welcome to our playground Mr 4th operator. Now here is how things work around here. We are not going to hurt one another now are we?
 
Yay - more crappy advertising methodologies.
More confusing contracts and call costs.
More imported nobody-else-wants-them cellphones.
More clever illegal but not illegal collusion to prevent joe soap from selling cellphones on the open market.
More hard-wiring of phones to one supplier.

Um - yea - add another licence, but howz about stoping the existing 3 from locking the market with their self imposed triopoly first ? You're going to have to make promises to get a 4th operator to play, and then you cannot break them promises, which means we looose again.

Oh well - more is better ?

Having said that - did you read this part:
<Q>he would work harder to give ordinary people a voice by taking a consumer marketing campaign to the country's rundown black townships.</Q>
Mashile is going to parade around in the Townships on weekends and educate the masses ? RESPECT. LOL- As if he'd ever ever be caught dead there.
 
Going by the previous experience, entry of a fouth network operator means increased rates. How else will the fat cats make their money.

The only option that will bring down the prices are if the SNO is given the license as the fourth network operator. Now that will bring down the prices, methinks.
 
mak2000 said:
The only option that will bring down the prices are if the SNO is given the license as the fourth network operator. Now that will bring down the prices, methinks.
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i think the sno will have more than enough trouble with just a fixed line service, they can't even provide a service... yet
 
They should let private companies in on setting up their own small networks, absolute power corrupts absolutely
 
This is part of what I wrote for Compl33t.za.net:

But when one does a quick comparison between the standard peak Vodacom and Vodafone (UK operator) packages Vodacom landline and same-network costs are 50c cheaper (exchange rates 30 July); although once one turns to off-peak rates Vodacom scores lower with Vodafones cost being 50c cheaper. Vodacom scores high again with inter-network costs and sms.
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But I am not complaining - I like choise
 
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