Neotel promises significant savings

promising a 25% or higher saving on ‘derived value’.
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SOUNDS to me a lot like WORDING taken out of a TELKOM dictionary! It really says nothing else than the obvious. Are we in for another raw deal, Another Broadband year of expectations, frustrations and disillusions. We are so use to it year to year on end.
 
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Until they change the figure I see on my monthly bill for the better I don't care...
 
Nothing concrete, again.

The Neotel MD further said that their value proposition should not only be measured in the direct financial savings, but also in the quality of their services and the flexibility of services at the customer end.
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Combine that with "derived value" and it just sounds like another euphemism for "competing on service". :rolleyes:
 
Derived value. Hmm, sounds like "friendlier customer care" but the same ripoff prices, low caps and slow speeds.

Neotel can go screw themselves, they're not getting any business from me(or the people I advise) until they actually offer something of an international standard.
 
Derived value mean you pay the same as for Telkom but you get 1 GB extra.
 
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Derived value. Hmm, sounds like "friendlier customer care" but the same ripoff prices, low caps and slow speeds.

Neotel can go screw themselves, they're not getting any business from me(or the people I advise) until they actually offer something of an international standard.
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Exactly. As much as people say screw Telkom, I'm moving to Neotel even if its the same price etc. I think we should wait until they offer something decent before moving, otherwise where's their incentive to offer better prices?
 
Im not holding my breath. We've been screwed for so long in SA. Until that moron of a Comms Minister buggers off Im not gonna be happy
 
Speaking at today’s Vodacom results presentation, Alan Knott-Craig said that while Neotel are a bunch of very nice guys – and despite the fact that they are aggressively laying fiber – not much has come from them yet.
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Oh dear.
 
I've been sending and receiving my international data on floppy discs attached to the tiny legs of white homing pigeons as of late...

It works great and the latancy's better that telkom's!!!! 999999999days thats a whole million days faster than telkoms latancy! :eek:
I'm sorry but i swear smoke signals and pigeons DO work better, its a myth that we have anything more civilized than that in SA.

Broadband? more like BroadBULL!!!
TELKOM - TELSCUM and NEOTEL -NONEXISTANT can suck my golden ball$ :mad:
 
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"Derived value" - Sounds like another shafting. The bean counters always have imaginary words to cover their asses.

25% of 0 is still 0!

Will have to wait and see what the actual prices are then they decide to announce them.
 
Profit = margin x volume.

But to succeed long-term in a competitive telecoms market, you have to sacrifice margin in favour of volume.

On the basis of this article, it appears that Neotel are about to make a massive mistake.
 
The Vodacom CEO jokingly said that more is needed to compete in the telecoms space than being nice guys and having a fiber backbone
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At least they have a backbone, not like the lying Telskum trash that we have to deal with.
 
Many companies share Knott-Craig’s view, adding that they have seen a ‘Telkom price minus’ strategy from Neotel rather than the fireworks required to truly shake up the market.
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Yes that would be nice...some fireworks. However, I don't read anything about fireworks in NeoTel's statement, in fact I never have, come to think of it. It's "nice" :p of them to want to give us better service, but how bout decent prices. I'd be willing to get Telkom like service from NeoTel, BUT only pay 30% of Telkom's price and get 1000% of the cap, at least. Now that would begin to make me happy.
 
Neotel are busy digging up the roads and pavements around Claremont (cpt) - their own manhole covers too - so at least we know they are doing something. The story is they haven't given out money to re-tar the holes though!!
 
Well, I'll first see what they come up with before I judge them or compare them to a Telscum.

Btw, last week around Thursday or so a whole "army" of 4x4 s and trucks was parked in the middle section of the Okovango road, close to Cape Gate shopping center in Brackenfell. Looked like a show of force to me, but again couldn't really see if they were digging up anything.

Kom nou Neotel show us what you got for us!!!
 
Like Knottied Craig dumb**** can say anything - our cellphone rates are ridiculous.
 
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