Another way to make ourselves heard...

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I agree with the printed leaflets idea... but perhaps we can take it a step further... The majority of people in these forums have access to a printer.

Why doesn't every single one of us print out 500 sheets each of a well thought out flyer or advert - giving all the facts, with a hard hitting message. This can be translated into all of the official languages.

Then we can go wild. Give an unemployed guy at a robot R50 to hand them out to passing cars (thus creating a job, promise to come back next week with another R50) ... stick them on the counter at the local pizza place, give a pile to the newspaper vendors, stick them on shop windows, stick them along walls by the thousands, drop them out of high up office buildings, stick them on car windscreens, stick them up on notice boards, stick them to lampposts... stick them on teklom vans, teklom streetside boxes, stick them absolutley everywhere...

The whole point of the exercise is to get the average man in the street to wake the hell up and smell the bitter coffee that is teklom. We can get our message across, cheaply, by using nothing more than a home / office printer and a R30 ream of paper.

Come on people... Who would be willing to come up with a hard hitting, well designed one A4 page flyer that goes straight for the throat? Perhaps it could be sent out as a mass mailer to every member of MyAdsl - all you need to do is print it, then distribute it by whatever means you can think of.

I believe this to be a good idea, some of you may disagree, but if we can all come up with different ideas, and methods, plans, and suggestions, then we are well on our way to sorting this out once and for all.
 
nice idea .... I am willing to print at least 50 and get them distributed somehow :)
so let me know when we have something to print!
 
OK - I am in - provided that the message is factual and non-emotional.
 
Is there perhaps someone in there forums that would be qualified to put something together? Perhaps someone with a good idea of exactly what to write?

I am sure we could all come up with something decent, but I would like to see some of the more "vocal" people in here designing / creating something?
 
What would the flyer plan to accomplish? Get more people to the site? The way I see it is if your everday ADSL user is upset with the service, he'll find this place more sooner than later without the need of a flyer? You'd need quite a smart marketing campaign (ie interesting slogan on the t-shirt or something) to stop me from waving the flyer distributor off with a hand gesture (as I usually do).
 
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I love the idea! I disrupt Telkom spots in cinemas to great effect! I take Telkom apart everytime there is a conversation about them. I have become convinced the company needs to be taken apart and split up. This is my personal opinion of course, but we all can do something! Spread the word. Design it and post a link to it Ryder_JHB! Let people choose for themselves whether or not they want to help or not.

Printing is expensive though but printing a couple even if it is just to hand out at the office is never a bad idea! I am also a firm believer in email. People can easily mail an informative message to friends who can in turn forward it again. Viral mail...
 
If someone posts what we need to print I'll print & distribute around school & everywhere around sandton.
 
Great Idea!

Contact www.hellkom.co.za for any action you'd like to take.
They'll inform you of what they think of the proposed plan and am sure they know what info is effective on flyers.

Having said that, we can distribute the desingned leafled via e-mail (to your friends and anyone who's interested) and get the network going...

Aait?!
 
Fudzy said:
What would the flyer plan to accomplish? .

genral awareness of the plight to those who are afected but dont know it

ie the middle managment that has no tech clue, the house wife who calls her mother, ext, ext
 
antowan said:
I love the idea! I disrupt Telkom spots in cinemas to great effect! I take Telkom apart everytime there is a conversation about them. I have become convinced the company needs to be taken apart and split up. This is my personal opinion of course, but we all can do something! Spread the word. Design it and post a link to it Ryder_JHB! Let people choose for themselves whether or not they want to help or not.

Agreed. I refused to watch the swimming on SABC yesterday, because of the Telkom logo. I avidly avoid any products bearing the PSA logo (where possible), and loudly voice my opinion in this regard when shopping.

An avalanche starts with the smallest movement.
 
I think this has great prospects...
Every couple of days there's someone rallying here for a fund to be set up for a huge ad campaign... but as RPM has said - it has too many legal and logistical problems.
Now i'm no graphical or copy-writing genius - but if someone can put together a flyer and release it a 'open source' then it would spread the message much further.
MaryJane and Debbie2 - i know you have some flyers that you've used in your antitrust.co.za protests... would you be willing to release them for all of us to print and distribute?

This now puts the ball in our court - we can still choose how much money and effort we wish to put into the cause - without any complicated trusts, or anything, having to be set up.
 
And when everyone finds out telkom is raping us.. then what?

They continue raping us as usual because for one, government own 38% of telkom and dont care to lower their prices.
 
In the UK they done a political poll using toilets.... at 12pm flush your loo for political party X and at 1 pm you flush your loo for party Y . They measure the difference in normal sewerage flows and can determine X or Y to be more popuar..

For ADSL, what will happen if ALL the AdSL member disconnected and re-connected to the SAIX system for 1 hour continuosly (not wire disconnect, but a IP connect with authentication.. will it make the SAIX system wobble?
 
RichardP said:
For ADSL, what will happen if ALL the AdSL member disconnected and re-connected to the SAIX system for 1 hour continuosly (not wire disconnect, but a IP connect with authentication.. will it make the SAIX system wobble?
Nope, It will make you wait for a reconnect
 
pupa said:
Nope, It will make you wait for a reconnect

Bummer.... the Radius server keeps going Tango-Uniform on my when Telskum run maintainance... but thats another story.

Richard
 
This is an exelent idea, i've always been wanting to do this. If the average joe nows about this then colectively we are more powerful then Telscum. I think everyone(read: the guys, or girls, who are better at getting a point across) should design a flyier and then we here deside witch one is the best.
 
Debbie2 said:
hey ambo, flyers can be dl from the antitrust.co.za website under 'downloads'.
Thanks Debs :D

Ok well there's the first flyer for us to start distributing. And i'm sure if you have another one that you think is good then we can organise to add it to the list.

We don't even nessecarilly need to choose one that is the best. Just pick one that you like and start printing.

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a direct link http://www.antitrust.co.za/beta/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=6
 
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