Agreement That Cheap Broadband in SA is 'Unrealistic'

[Oliver]

I wrote the following e-mail to the business day online team (bdonline@bdfm.co.za) and to the editor (busday@bdfm.co.za):

Sir,

I refer to the the article by Lesley Stones entitled "Agreement that cheap broadband in SA is ‘unrealistic’", Posted to the web on: 08 September 2005 (http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/technology.aspx?ID=BD4A89434)

I find it quite disturbing that an important publication like Business Day would allow such an article to be published purely based on "hearsay". This article only misinforms and misleads the public about the facts. I find it unprofessional on behalf of a journalist to publishing such a one-sided article without offering your readers any additional research or information to put everything in context. This lack of professionalism would also indicate that your journalist is either ignorant about the facts or intentionally publishing the information that these companies want to have published in an effort to continue abusing the South African consumers.

Please feel free to look at the following forum threads to see what the minority of well-informed consumers are commenting about your article:

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=27087

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=27048 see post # 5 or go directly to http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showpost.php?p=297396&postcount=5

Unfortunately I havent heard back from them yet

 

[mbs]

I wrote the following e-mail to the business day online team (bdonline@bdfm.co.za) and to the editor (busday@bdfm.co.za):

Unfortunately I havent heard back from them yet

I very much doubt that you will - they're not generally known to respond, and when they do, confine their responses to the occasional error correction notice in the publication itself, for fear of litigation...

 

[Oliver]

oh well... we all do what we can