A quick-buy document concerning Telkom

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Was doing a little browsing, ok maybe a lot of browsing this morning *looks at time* and i stumbled into this awkward site: http://www.budde.com.au/Reports/Contents/Telkom-South-Africa-Ltd-973.html
which to me looks like the resale of maybe, private telkom info?
Last update: Wednesday December 29, 2004 (seems VERY recent to me)
Table 11 – ADSL access network statistics – March 2004 (interesting...)
Table 14 - Plans to take over the world and eradicate cheap world wide internet connectivity (made this one up, but who knows :D )

ALSO the main reason ive been browsing all this time is because ive been looking for ISP's all over africa that deliver a CHEAP RELIABLE broadband connection, so when telkom say that we shouldnt compare their prices to 1st world standards we shove this info up their big black hole of greed... So far i have a bit of info of fifteen 3rd-world-African countries (excluding egypt and mauritious, for which we already know what they charge). Some sites are reluctant to give prices and some are in french/portuguese, thx google for the 'translate' option.

Shall I pursue in finding about prices, capping, etc?
 
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Hi guys

I have encountered documents from this place previously in my research regarding Telkom, ADSL, Broadband in Africa etc. Unfortunately I don’t think it is justified to ask 40 E for a document if it is simply for research purposes. I also have no way of ascertaining whether this information is of value, or if it is an accumulation of facts which we know already. I have access to numerous libraries/sites for research papers but none of them stock these papers.

Having said the above, if you guys think it will be of great value to have this info I will be willing purchase it. Feedback will be of value.

Regards,

RPM
 
rpm,

There is a good chance that we will already know everything in this document.

However I still believe that it might be of value. I am also willing to purchase the document, or any other document that may be of value. I noticed that there are several documents that seem worthwhile.

Perhaps those in a position to could contribute to getting this document, as it might contain far more information is is better priced $200 for 236 pages vs $40 for 18 pages.

http://www.budde.com.au/publications/annual/africa/africa-southern.html
 
Hi Alchamy

This document will indeed be of value. Its March 2005 installment is on its way, and I will be willing to fork out the $400. I must say that I will be rather unhappy if it is simply a short run-down of the availability of services in Southern Africa, but lets hope it contains more interesting information.

Regards,

RPM
 
Ok, admitedly I have somewhat ignored this thread due to being somewhat busy & a really bad Burst-i since last Friday [WBS - get it fixed!!!], so has anyone googled for info on budde.com.au to determine whether these budde reports are either cached by Google or available on other sites?
 
ic, I will spend some time hunting tomorrow. Hopefully I find these documents somewhere :)
 
Much of the facts in the 1st report are based on the Telkom PDF's (downloadable from the Telkom Investor Relations site) where they report everything (according to them) to the SEC.

Have a look at www.hellkom.co.za/media/Telkom 20-F - FINAL.pdf there are quite a few facts they would have in that report and there are other docs too. If and when time permits we could put a report together ourselves and also charge what 40E for it.. ;)

Anyway, why don't we all just put in like 40 or 50 bucks for the 2nd report, the $400 one.. funny though that research about SA always comes from a source outside of SA :)

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http://www.budde.com.au/publications/annual/africa/africa-southern-summary.html
"South Africa boasts the continent’s most advanced network in terms of services provided and technology deployed. The much delayed and controversial process of awarding a SNO licence finally came to fruition at end-2003 heralding the introduction of competition for the first time in the fixed-line market. Subscribers to the three digital mobile networks soared towards 16 million at end-2003, compared with less than 5 million fixed-line connections."

isn't that a bit ummm. wrong?
 
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Yep that definitely smacks of some very stale info, which is why it would be better to get a look-see at the actual doc for free - rather than shelling out 400 euroz. There was an interesting pdf (Finnish I think) I googled upon a while back - posted somewhere in the news forum - I maintain everything is possible with Google - even running the DoC could be done by using Google :)
 
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