Government ‘can force Telkom to slash Sat3 costs’

Telkomoron said:
Telkom’s executive for global capacity business, Johan Meyer, warned that any intervention that severely affected the investments a company had made would have a negative effect on its willingness to invest in future infrastructure projects.
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In other words: out of spite because we can't rip anyone off, we'd rather make NO money than a little money...

*sigh*

Idiots.

J
 
Thieving Telco!

Telkom’s executive for global capacity business, Johan Meyer, warned that any intervention that severely affected the investments a company had made would have a negative effect on its willingness to invest in future infrastructure projects.
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So what! That would be to their own down fall. Besides there are plenty of other companies willing to invest large amounts of money in future infrastructure.

Telkom holding SA to ransom ! Criminals I tell you ! Corporate intimidation ! Where is the Justice !


*spit! :mad:
 
I am so sick and tired of Telkom using these bully tactics, I think they should be forced to drop the price by 100% because it was a state enterprise that paid for SAT3 not a private company.

Telkom go shove it, if you don't invest someone else will. You are not as important as you think you are...
 
OMW! Mauritius is 3x cheaper!! That's scary...

Cheaper bandwidth would dramatically cut the cost of internet access and global phone calls, helping local companies to become more globally competitive.
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Surely Telkom isn't Proudly South African if it screws the local companies...
 
DavidP said:
So what! That would be to their own down fall. Besides there are plenty of other companies willing to invest large amounts of money in future infrastructure.

Telkom holding SA to ransom ! Criminals I tell you ! Corporate intimidation ! Where is the Justice !


*spit! :mad:
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Also, any company that invests will use hedging. The loss won't be that big. Or it shouldn't be unless ex-Telkom employees where employed to do the investing. Telkom delivers good returns, so there is also a big risk...time for the risk to be realised, i say!
 
Government: Tanks, Ratels, Rooivalks, Rooikatte, G6's, soldiers with guns, fighter planes, policemen with guns

Telkom: Guys with bakkies and telecoms equipment,

I think I know who would win (even with their AIDS infested troops)...
 
Johan Meyer, warned that any intervention that severely affected the investments a company had made would have a negative effect on its willingness to invest in future infrastructure projects.
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Excellent. Telkom, hand over the infrastructure you stole from the taxplayer and move on. We can do better without you and your ilk.

We would rapidly move forard towards the 20th century. And the maybe even to the 21st.
 
Wahahahaa, yeah right, Ivy is more likely to fart than act or do anything meaningful.

As for this Johan Meyer lackey, LOL, if your masters had made any significant investment in infrastructure in this country with the obscene profits they currently enjoy, we would not be sitting here now trying to rip each other apart for a few gigs of bandwidth at yesterdays speeds numbnuts.

The uptake and internet penetration figures speak for themselves.
"executive for global capacity business", funny **** that.
 
Johan Meyer, warned that any intervention that severely affected the investments a company had made would have a negative effect on its willingness to invest in future infrastructure projects.
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First of all, Telkom has already recouped it's investment in SAT-3 many many times over. Second of all, what future investments? Does Telkom have plans to lay another undersea cable for their own usage (EASSY will be paid for by a whole bunch of other people as well)? Are they radically upgrading their internal network? Are they investing in a better trained and more efficient workforce? Please tell us Mr Meyer.
 
Government can....

Government can force Telkom to slash Sat3 costs - but won't. Not while the ANC Pty Ltd have a 38% share in Telkom!
 
lenosb said:
Government can force Telkom to slash Sat3 costs - but won't. Not while the ANC Pty Ltd have a 38% share in Telkom!
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yup you got that right , o they "can" but will they? :mad:

hopefully by 2010 they will. :rolleyes:
 
lol - government killing their cash cow?

Nice one.
 
lenosb said:
Government can force Telkom to slash Sat3 costs - but won't. Not while the ANC Pty Ltd have a 38% share in Telkom!
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Yeah. Well put.

The DOC keep this share for the people on behalf of the people in case we have a Tsunami one day.
>Exact wording I cannot remember, not caring to look now, but the DOC stated it recently.
 
*SIGH*

BTTB said:
The DOC keep this share for the people on behalf of the people in case we have a Tsunami one day.
>Exact wording I cannot remember, not caring to look now, but the DOC stated it recently.
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It was not too long ago on Carte Blanche.
 
Telkom’s executive for global capacity business, Johan Meyer, warned that any intervention that severely affected the investments a company had made would have a negative effect on its willingness to invest in future infrastructure projects.
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blah blah blah... din't they already pull out of EASSy?
 
Idle threats man, they would never ever NOT invest in more infrastructure.

They're stupid yes, but not THAT stupid. No one is.
 
MaD said:
Idle threats man, they would never ever NOT invest in more infrastructure.

They're stupid yes, but not THAT stupid. No one is.
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exactly - what would they say to their shareholders - that they'd rather make no money instead of less?
 
I'll long for the day when I can read a thread title with the word "do" rather than words such as "Can/could/would/possibly/maybe" etc.

Mad: Exactly. It seems they have been investing in new infracstructure if this "4mbps coming soon" is to be believed.
 
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