Telkom to shoot the lights out

The Department of Communications recently held a colloquium to look at ways to bring down telecoms costs. There, deputy minister Roy Padayachie said it would do what was necessary, whether this be by way of regulations, ministerial determinations and even legislative changes.

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On the revenue side, Ambekar expects Telkom’s voice revenue to decline over the long-term, but data revenues to continue growing. Telkom has threatened previously to curtail the rollout of its high-speed broadband service if regulator Icasa intervenes on pricing.

Asked if this were not a threat, Ambekar said: “Regulatory risk is always high in this industry.” But, she says Telkom is looking to increase the take-up of ADSL and is likely to further reduce prices to spur that on anyway. She expects prices to come down over the next two to three-years.

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Another month is to long. I doubt they'll get much takeup at all until prices are dramatically decreased

Hastur said:

Another month is to long. I doubt they'll get much takeup at all until prices are dramatically decreased

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The reality is ... ~ 5000 new DSL activations a month in SA. Uptake is in fact seriously accelerating.

They've pretty much lied about everything else (I think it's in their mission statement in their annual report, "lie first, silence second, like the ninja "). Why would this be any different.

Another competitive connectivity option will emerge they will lose customers, and then maybe Telkom will sit up and take notice (maybe). Until then they revert to the mission statement.

2 to 3 years!

Telkom is so slow at the decision making and managerial level, that even if they decided this today (like they do anything on a friday) it would still take three years to change there prices, advertising, inform the call center munkies.

So telkom to stay on your proudly raping South Africa sceme, you must reduce prices today, or get competent people to run your organisation!

With the high profits TELKOM extorts from the few consumers they can afford these highly expensive false advertisements in the media, allowing them to attract 5000 new subscribers per month. The techie that installed mine 2 months ago told me I would be surprised how many a day he disconnects again, never new I will be another in November. At the price TELKOM charge for installation and degrading of the network makes even that a lucrative viable business, more fraud.
One thing makes me happy thought and that is the higher the uptake the more dissatisfied customers there will be, guaranteed and the they will look for advice and our uptake will also accelerate as we have seen lately. So TELKOM your time is coming.

Padayachie is all talk. Always knows the right things to say to 'please' whoever is listening. He's good at it too, look how many people on MyADSL are pleased by him even though he has done NOTHING in terms of actions - just pure talk so far. I don't trust him. Saw him interviewed a while back on SABC3, he came across as 'sly' and scaly to me.

Telkom has threatened previously to curtail the rollout of its high-speed broadband service if regulator Icasa intervenes on pricing.

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Actually, it would be great if they did, because in the long term it would probably be near-certain suicide for Telkom - no 'modern' telecomms company can stick to "Plain Old Telephony". But they're not that stupid, they would never curtail the roll-out - on the contrary, if the prices were lowered, they would be forced to increase their roll-out to gain economies of scale (it would happen anyway if prices were lowered), so they would still get lots of money. These continual 100% fake threats (which we also see from Vodacom in a gentler form) are just to manipulate naive government members and the public.