The SAT3 Consortium's Shareholder Agreement They Don't Want You to See

Very interesting indeed.
 
This rather undercuts Telkom SA's argument that it is bound by confidentiality and exposes its long campaign of not delivering the agreement to the South African government for what it is: simply obstruction of something it was able to do but chose not to for its own self-interested reasons.
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Now to see what icasa and DoC will say, probably more waffle. -twiddle thumbs- still no adsl regulation.
 
[qoute]Firstly, there appears to be no mention of the national exclusivity period that Telkom SA (the managing agents of the system) acknowledges exists.[/quote]

Not the first time they have lied, but guaranteed Gubmint wont do anything to harm their cash cow
 
We the public are the cash cow that is being milked dry by Telkodemonopolies...

mooooooooooooooo :(
 
Good job Russell Southwood, Balancingact-Africa

Names, need the names of the mofo's.
Then we can play connect the politicia,, err dots, sorry.

edit: Might want to forward a copy of the agreement to Uncle Roy at the DOC. Apparently the DOC have been experiencing some difficulty in getting their grubby paws on it for a while now, or perhaps thats just more bollox as usual.
Second thoughts send off 10, all registered mail, separately, in armoured vehicles, no wait, that's not that safe.
 
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Telkom has always ruled in this game, I am sure we all know Telkom has always had a hidden agenda, so whats new?
VIVA SNO... we hope...
 
AHA! Busted!

And significantly, these terms and conditions should not contradict the regulation in place in the countries concerned. In other words, the parties concerned acknowledge the primacy of national law.
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We have you now!
So... as usual... it's the colonial powers that the local government have been giving in to (France being major shareholder...) in their (the elite's) own interest of course...

now don't tell me that between government and Myadsl, RPM was the first to see this doc!
 
this means gvt has been sitting on their hands as they could have opened access a long time ago notwithstanding the agreement.
 
I hope monday they are hounded my press asking wth is going on.
 
Thanks Adlo. :)
And RPM for placing the link to the beef. :)
 
The problem as I see it ...
If our government was really so keen to get this information they would have, instead they ran around making noise and doing little more, and will continue to do so.
Telkom has up to this point shown little interest in sharing information about how it runs it monopoly, to the point of ignoring rulings against it, now how can it get away with this with absolutely nothing happening, no even a slap on the wrist, and again its our government, the DoC ands its quorum of little dictators.
 
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The point about primacy of national law is reinforced by paragraph 20.1 which states that the implementation of the cable is subject to obtaining the relevant agreements, Government authorisations, licences and necessary permits.
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Firstly, there appears to be no mention of the national exclusivity period that Telkom SA (the managing agents of the system) acknowledges exists.
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Would think telkom makes its own arrangements once the cable comes ashore - there is no exclusivity period - except the one this government made with telkom when they agreed telkoms sale.
 
Each investor in the project has been allocated a certain level of capacity according to the amount invested and this is has been calculated in MIU-Kilometres. As capacity was calculated in a distance-related measure, it lays the basis for charging on what is claimed to be distance-related tariffing.
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Telkom charges three times more for using Sat3 than Mauritius Telecom charges, although Mauritius is further from the European landing points. That is because Mauritius Telecom was ordered by its regulator, the Information and Communication Technologies Authority, to cut its costs by 80%.
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:confused: :rolleyes: :mad:
 
I've got a question.. If they are forced to drop their prices with immediate effect to a cost price + a decent mark up(yes it is unlikely) but allowed to retain their link till april when exclusivty ends what will IS do? Can they drop their prices and how much can they? Also what does this say for IS since if they can match a much lower price they would be as bad as Telkom no?
 
S.n.o. --- ?? S.no. Who?

Does anybody know what the fark is happening with the SNO? When do they plan on actually going into business? Or have the dumb@ss mofo's at Telkom managed to buy more time by palming off ICASA to burry the SNO with more and more red tape?
 
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