Cellphone companies will soon be fighting to get you as their customer

Not if they can help it :rolleyes:
 
He dismisses the notion of more churn in the prepaid sector when MNP is in place, because he says the cost of porting (anywhere between R25 and R75) far outweighs the cost of simply buying a starter pack on another network (as little as R1).
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Just because someone is on pre-paid does not mean they can easily or would want to change their number. I know people who use pre-paid for their business phone because it is the cheapest way to ensure their customers can easily contact them. To change their number they'd have to reprint their business cards and notify all their current clients. Now they might be unusual, but they might not.
 
http://www.fin24.co.za/articles/bus...?Nav=ns&lvl2=buss&ArticleID=1518-1786_1998691
Icasa chairperson Paris Mashile dismissed criticism from the media and consumer groups that the regulator is "toothless" after delaying the rules again and also failing earlier this year to force dominant fixed-line firm Telkom into slashing broadband tariffs.

"You ain't seen nothing yet," he told the Mobility 2006 conference on cellular technology in South Africa.
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100% correct from Paris...we have certainly not seen anything yet.
 
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rpm said:
http://www.fin24.co.za/articles/bus...?Nav=ns&lvl2=buss&ArticleID=1518-1786_1998691
Icasa chairperson Paris Mashile dismissed criticism from the media and consumer groups that the regulator is "toothless" after delaying the rules again and also failing earlier this year to force dominant fixed-line firm Telkom into slashing broadband tariffs.

"You ain't seen nothing yet," he told the Mobility 2006 conference on cellular technology in South Africa.
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100% correct from Paris...we have certainly not seen anything yet.
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LOL, so true!! :D
 
Judging by the pressure I'm being put under to renew our corporate contracts (by Nashua Mobile), I suspect they are trying to make light of the situation so that it's still "business as usual right" now.

I'm holding on 'til number portability starts shaking the tree, and I think I'm not alone.
 
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