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kaspaas
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by LoneGunman</i>
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So yes Sentech, you're becoming known by the mass media as being 'not an option' for anyone interested in real internet connectivity.. couldnt ya just die?
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No, If Sentech dies, a major potential competitor to Telkom dies!
Much better: Sentech has to undergo major surgery to cut out the cancers killing it!
South Africa needs World Class Broadband at World Competitive Prices.
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So yes Sentech, you're becoming known by the mass media as being 'not an option' for anyone interested in real internet connectivity.. couldnt ya just die?
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No, If Sentech dies, a major potential competitor to Telkom dies!
Much better: Sentech has to undergo major surgery to cut out the cancers killing it!
South Africa needs World Class Broadband at World Competitive Prices.
martin
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by LoneGunman</i>
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ps: I have a 60 gig Creative Nomad Zen Xtra, which lives in my pocket - cheaper than an Ipod, bigger than an IPod, better than an IPod
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Sorry, don't mean to hijack the thread but couldn't agree more LG. In my opinion the IPod is overhyped. It has more to do with status than functionality. People are even willing to pay more for a slightly smaller version with even less storage space (can't locate the Wired article right now). Creative had their first MP3 player out way before apple did as well.
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ps: I have a 60 gig Creative Nomad Zen Xtra, which lives in my pocket - cheaper than an Ipod, bigger than an IPod, better than an IPod
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Sorry, don't mean to hijack the thread but couldn't agree more LG. In my opinion the IPod is overhyped. It has more to do with status than functionality. People are even willing to pay more for a slightly smaller version with even less storage space (can't locate the Wired article right now). Creative had their first MP3 player out way before apple did as well.
Donovan
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Amen... the iPod is severely overhyped and overpriced...
However, creative's products went steadily downhill. I once had this displeasure of using one of their first CDRW drives in the 90s.. it was returned after two days.
However, creative's products went steadily downhill. I once had this displeasure of using one of their first CDRW drives in the 90s.. it was returned after two days.
LoneGunman
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Getting the topic back on topic, away from the IPod thing - the point I guess is that, irrespective of my own personal opinions about, for instance, 702's Chrys Williams - its interesting to note that even highly corruptible 'opinion makers' on radio, are now feeling free to express a negative view of Sentech on air, in casual throwaway conversation.
Cue the sound of millions of rands of Sentech's adspend being flushed down the toilet.
And as regards a 'major competitor to Telkom' dying, if Sentech should die - I'd rather have the single monopoly, and a clearly defined Enemy, than the illusion of competition, and a blurred fake 'even playing field'. It isnt - and we're seeing what happens when a Company which has no justifiable reason for existence, (based on its utterly unbusinesslike behaviour) is allowed to exist as a fake 'competitor'..
Looking at the 'owners' of Sentech, the long lists of endless rather obese politicians - I'd rather put my faith in - for instance - I-Burst, which appears to be a genuine company that hasn't piggybacked on tax-payers money in a market with no competition, to be then 'privatised' and ultimately co-opted as a cash-cow by corrupt government personnel, protected by legislation that's Stalinist in its protectiveness.
I'd rather be a customer of a company that's fought hard every step of the way, against other companies desperate to offer even better deals and service to its customers.
Sentech by its behaviour, has shown just how bloated, ignorant, retarded and careless a company that's never fought tooth and nail to exist in a free market economy, can become.
Cue the sound of millions of rands of Sentech's adspend being flushed down the toilet.
And as regards a 'major competitor to Telkom' dying, if Sentech should die - I'd rather have the single monopoly, and a clearly defined Enemy, than the illusion of competition, and a blurred fake 'even playing field'. It isnt - and we're seeing what happens when a Company which has no justifiable reason for existence, (based on its utterly unbusinesslike behaviour) is allowed to exist as a fake 'competitor'..
Looking at the 'owners' of Sentech, the long lists of endless rather obese politicians - I'd rather put my faith in - for instance - I-Burst, which appears to be a genuine company that hasn't piggybacked on tax-payers money in a market with no competition, to be then 'privatised' and ultimately co-opted as a cash-cow by corrupt government personnel, protected by legislation that's Stalinist in its protectiveness.
I'd rather be a customer of a company that's fought hard every step of the way, against other companies desperate to offer even better deals and service to its customers.
Sentech by its behaviour, has shown just how bloated, ignorant, retarded and careless a company that's never fought tooth and nail to exist in a free market economy, can become.