Phones for SA’s poor … in 222 years

In 2002, one of the years covered by Cole’s study, the operators handed over R280m of their total revenue of R56bn. Yet Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri capped the fund at R50m. Operators should be demanding to know where the rest of their levy went, Cole said.
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:eek:

Piggies, snouts, troughs, in?
 
"He calculates that communication services in SA are 440 times too expensive, soaking up an average of 3% of people’s monthly income, compared to a global benchmark of under 1%."

Thats a figure I find kind of amusing. Granted yes I know its an average, but I would have thought in this country that it would be considerably higher, I mean I spend on average 10-15% of my monthly income on my phonebill, and broadband access.... so yeah...

I would be immensely happy if it was 1% of my salary...but hey I can dream
 
Oh that's priceless rpm. How can they not be immensely depressed when looking at figures like that?
 
Guavamint knows exactly what it's policies are worth....$hit.
Those thieves stand to loose too much when the gravy train slows down!
And, hence, status quo!

Well done to the Guavamint!
You fought apartheid for 50 years, and now you turn your back on the people you fought for. You greedy and thieving Ba$tards!
 
The Gov will anything for people till they get what they want.then the people can rot. Almost like telkom isn't it?

The way they going they are not going to make it before 2010.Hence the 2010 aint going to happen here.
 
I had this dream of a massive Carrot.... the 2010 Carrot

Ohhh wait a bit, it was a nightmare
 
222 years!!! Dont say that, you might put some 'real' pressure on the DoC and stress out the officials by setting deadlines you know they cannot meet.
Imminent is more appropriate by DoC standards.
 
Plea to the President

He firmly blames the “managed liberalisation” policy championed by Matsepe-Casaburri, allowing Telkom to maintain its monopoly and claw too much money out of the economy and into its coffers.

Throwing more money into providing services for the poor is not the answer, he says, as other countries have used less cash to create more “teledensity”. Poor policies are the real issue. “You have a market failure,” he says.
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Mr Mbeki, I hope you recover from your bout of the flu and gain the strength to face facts and realise it isn't just us vocal minority consumers that complain about having the wrong people in important jobs. Please allow our current MoC to go on retirement and clear the post for someone with a vision of the future and an understanding of how the ICT industry really functions. While you're at it, we really don't mind losing the 'Tsunami Emergency Fund' - use that to improve local infrastructure, split up Telkom and lower costs so that true competition can flourish. More South Africans will benefit and thank you for that.

Sincerely,
LifelongGamer.
 
*Sigh* Another one of these stories. They just go on and on. Im surprised anyone still has hope of any real change happenoing in their life time. We've heard of SNO and competition since before 2002 and we've heard many stories of how badly this country is doing re services for the poor and more afluent and the cost of communications and how it hurts the economy as a whole and really all we see is blah blah blah. Im going of to cry for a few hours and I think itll do me more good than all the reports Ive read in the last 4 or 5 years.
 
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