Another expensive failure

erm, maybe the poor people there haven't got money for a fixed line? (a phoen or food on the table) i think if they do need a phone they would get a cellphone not a fixed tied down one.
True might cost a bit more to start but its mobile. :) (pun intended) thats to say they don't get a cell for free or as a donation!
 
Hey wasn't there something in Telkom's license about servicing rural areas?
 
Skip said:
Hey wasn't there something in Telkom's license about servicing rural areas?
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.....yeah this was kinda the whole damn point of Telkom's monopoly....

During the negotiations on the proposed telecoms market structure in the mid-1990s, Telkom came out fast and furiously with their argument that an extended monopoly for them would be the only way to extend telecoms access to underserviced areas. Amazingly, a few years later (after they had been given the monopoly) Telkom decided that installing these lines (as their licence conditions required them to do) was just too much effort and too costly- "screw the poor and our legal obligations imposed on us by our licence, we're just not going to install any more lines because we don't feel like it."

Govt and ICASA didn't bat an eyelid.
 
Debbie2 said:
.....yeah this was kinda the whole damn point of Telkom's monopoly....

During the negotiations on the proposed telecoms market structure in the mid-1990s, Telkom came out fast and furiously with their argument that an extended monopoly for them would be the only way to extend telecoms access to underserviced areas. Amazingly, a few years later (after they had been given the monopoly) Telkom decided that installing these lines (as their licence conditions required them to do) was just too much effort and too costly- "screw the poor and our legal obligations imposed on us by our licence, we're just not going to install any more lines because we don't feel like it."

Govt and ICASA didn't bat an eyelid.
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Now its up to the SNO! What bets we have that that would also be a failure. Looks like this whole GVT is one big experimental disaster!
 
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