Cell C wants even playing field

I ask again why on-network calls are not R1.25 cheaper than off-network calls? :rolleyes:

This proves yet again that other organisations have more balls than ICASA in an area that ICASA should have regulated a long time ago.
 
In the meantime, South African cellphone users will continue to pay higher prices than most other countries in the world.
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Five years from now they will be writing the same thing. Sigh. It bums me out quite a bit...
 
Deteriorating

And still my (end others I know of) MNT voice service has deteriorated badly over the last few months..... Looks like government is running (and making prices at) the cellular providers.:mad:
 
I don't see how the 3G networks are an issue. I'm sure they're mainly used for data anyway, can't think of anyone that actually uses video calling. Cell C just uses any opportunity to try and turn their weakness in not rolling out 3G into some sort of advantage.
 
Saule said:
I ask again why on-network calls are not R1.25 cheaper than off-network calls? :rolleyes:

This proves yet again that other organisations have more balls than ICASA in an area that ICASA should have regulated a long time ago.
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spot on
ICASA finalised their hearings more than 2 years ago and have done squat

the highest in the world = nothing short of another disgraceful indictment of the incompetence and greed abounding in govt, the regulator and industry while the consumer - rich and poor, urban and rural, serviced and under-serviced - gets screwed
 
dominic said:
spot on
ICASA finalised their hearings more than 2 years ago and have done squat

the highest in the world = nothing short of another disgraceful indictment of the incompetence and greed abounding in govt, the regulator and industry while the consumer - rich and poor, urban and rural, serviced and under-serviced - gets screwed
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Makes me so angry these evil people are allowed to be in power :(
 
Syndyre said:
I don't see how the 3G networks are an issue. I'm sure they're mainly used for data anyway, can't think of anyone that actually uses video calling. Cell C just uses any opportunity to try and turn their weakness in not rolling out 3G into some sort of advantage.
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Because like the article says, forking out R 2 Billion takes its fair share of time to receive back in earnings, especially if you're like Cell C which only now, after 7 years, has made a paltry R 321M in profit (that's after all expenditures and liabilities are deducted).

At that rate, if they were to roll out a 3G network now, without any further expansion or growth whatsoever it would take Cell C around 6 years to return to profitability.

Now you say that the construction of a 3G network doesn't play a role. :P
 
KampfGherkin said:
Because like the article says, forking out R 2 Billion takes its fair share of time to receive back in earnings, especially if you're like Cell C which only now, after 7 years, has made a paltry R 321M in profit (that's after all expenditures and liabilities are deducted).

At that rate, if they were to roll out a 3G network now, without any further expansion or growth whatsoever it would take Cell C around 6 years to return to profitability.

Now you say that the construction of a 3G network doesn't play a role. :P
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That assumes that the 3G network won't bring in any revenue, which MTN and VC especially disprove. They're implying that 3G networks are being cross subsidised by interconnect costs which I haven't seen any evidence of.
 
i am not buying any justification for a 500% increase shortly before a new competitor is licensed

prime example of ICASA's powerlessness - it's like a drive-by mugging in front of police headquarters which everyone knows about but doesn't really seem to care that the end-product is extortionate call rates distorted by interconnection rates which have NOTHING to do with cost + a reasonable rate of return and everything to do with anti-competitive oligarchic predation

and they shamelessly defend it to the hilt in the name of future investment
 
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