This mindset of celebrating mediocrity has resulted in the bar been set so low, that a PhD in Incompetence will soon probably be something to rant & rave about!
...go figure?
I can understand the telecos concern, however progress nullifies the old. Especially on the technological front...
Consider thing's like the typewriter, fax, land-line's, the financial sector, etc.
Failure to stay ahead of the curve, or at least get on board will lead to your own demise.
This is the same ANC mindset that continues to gut the economy and financially ruin both the state and all of the country's inhabitants in the process.
After years of underestimations on the amount of loadshedding that would occur. Only, to suddenly have the complete opposite happen just 2 months before the elections. Suggests that something doesn't smell right, here.
As with all scams:
"If it seems to good to be true, it probably is!"