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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Remember most other African countries don't even have ADSL for heavens sake!<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
Well South Africa has the Equipment, the exchanges, the SAT3 cables, satellite uplinks, networked infrastructures, developed economy by African standards. So what actually is your point here?
That we should be grateful for the telephone pole on the street corner?
Well buddy, let me explain this to you. We deserve that telephone pole as this country sweated blood for many decades to achieve these ends. To get to this position started many decades ago when telecommunication was regarded as a public service and the state made its job to deliver services like electricity and water. To meet these ends the public has had to pay high taxes so that the state could implement these services. Once they were in place, the service was then repaid for by user accounts. These accounts and I'm referring to telephone accounts in particular were and still are exceptionally high. But now the difference is the state will not roll out any more new telephone infrastructure as Telkom is now listed. But seeing that there is not any more actual capacity building will Telkom now reduce its tariffs. Hell no they won't. Why, because they cannot as they now answer to shareholders. So what was before a state function is now controlled by money hungry businessman? Future development will be retarded. And what was our public asset is now in control of some pooopals who couldn't give stuff about MyADSL or ADSL or ICASA or whoever goes up against them.
And if you throw your telephone out the window and tell Telkom to shove it as you are getting a Cell Phone. They have that covered too. They own 50% of Vodacom and 33% of MTN and whatever they don't own they resell to them anyway. So whichever way you turn you are screwed for every Rand they can get out of you.
So don't think, because Telkom gave PSA R8.5mil or pretend to be involved in the countries development. It’s all a smoke screen that is worked into their advertising budget of self promotion and preservation.
So perhaps I have ranted on. But Mr Rooney, don't fall for Telkom's bull****. They have only one interest in life and that is to make as much money out of the SA Public as possible.
So be that may. In return, I want service and a product that I can use that is not crippled because of unproven dribble that Telkom spits out every now and then.
If they can’t do it because they are restrained by the board of directors they should look at the future and that board of directors should rethink their stance as none of this will help SA's development or be a future they would want for their own children. And while they are thinking that they can just as well admit repayment of the debt to the SA Public as it was the SA Public that put Telkom on the map in the first place. And they should never ever forget that. As it’s the same SA Public that could one day flush them down the toilet.
The way I reckon, with new technology advancing so fast that within the next decade Telkom will be taking a back seat to newer better faster technology and the SA Public will be so peeved off with them they will drop Telkom like a ton of bricks and wouldn't think twice about it.
<b><hr noshade size="1"></b><font size="2"><font color="red"><b>You can take Telkom out of the Post Office but you can't take the Post Office out of Telkom.</b></font id="red"></font id="size2">
Well South Africa has the Equipment, the exchanges, the SAT3 cables, satellite uplinks, networked infrastructures, developed economy by African standards. So what actually is your point here?
That we should be grateful for the telephone pole on the street corner?
Well buddy, let me explain this to you. We deserve that telephone pole as this country sweated blood for many decades to achieve these ends. To get to this position started many decades ago when telecommunication was regarded as a public service and the state made its job to deliver services like electricity and water. To meet these ends the public has had to pay high taxes so that the state could implement these services. Once they were in place, the service was then repaid for by user accounts. These accounts and I'm referring to telephone accounts in particular were and still are exceptionally high. But now the difference is the state will not roll out any more new telephone infrastructure as Telkom is now listed. But seeing that there is not any more actual capacity building will Telkom now reduce its tariffs. Hell no they won't. Why, because they cannot as they now answer to shareholders. So what was before a state function is now controlled by money hungry businessman? Future development will be retarded. And what was our public asset is now in control of some pooopals who couldn't give stuff about MyADSL or ADSL or ICASA or whoever goes up against them.
And if you throw your telephone out the window and tell Telkom to shove it as you are getting a Cell Phone. They have that covered too. They own 50% of Vodacom and 33% of MTN and whatever they don't own they resell to them anyway. So whichever way you turn you are screwed for every Rand they can get out of you.
So don't think, because Telkom gave PSA R8.5mil or pretend to be involved in the countries development. It’s all a smoke screen that is worked into their advertising budget of self promotion and preservation.
So perhaps I have ranted on. But Mr Rooney, don't fall for Telkom's bull****. They have only one interest in life and that is to make as much money out of the SA Public as possible.
So be that may. In return, I want service and a product that I can use that is not crippled because of unproven dribble that Telkom spits out every now and then.
If they can’t do it because they are restrained by the board of directors they should look at the future and that board of directors should rethink their stance as none of this will help SA's development or be a future they would want for their own children. And while they are thinking that they can just as well admit repayment of the debt to the SA Public as it was the SA Public that put Telkom on the map in the first place. And they should never ever forget that. As it’s the same SA Public that could one day flush them down the toilet.
The way I reckon, with new technology advancing so fast that within the next decade Telkom will be taking a back seat to newer better faster technology and the SA Public will be so peeved off with them they will drop Telkom like a ton of bricks and wouldn't think twice about it.
<b><hr noshade size="1"></b><font size="2"><font color="red"><b>You can take Telkom out of the Post Office but you can't take the Post Office out of Telkom.</b></font id="red"></font id="size2">
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