Competitive telecoms

But a duopoly, notably one where the incumbent is so strong and the newcomer is entering the game so late, has never resulted in real competition, particularly when the regulator is weak.
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The market is bound to develop into an oligopoly as time goes by just like the cellphone market.

Why couldnt we have a regulator with cajhones?
 
I hope that someday , someone will write an article showing the amount of profit that telkom makes per year , and the loss that the country shows due to lack of foreign investments , because og high telkom prices . Lets say telkom makes XXXX each year , big companies who would but dont want to invest , would have invested say XXXXX amount creating AAAA amount of jobs , creating XXXX amount of income for those people , ect ect ect .

Then we could show people that even though telkom is making say 10 mil a year the loss of possible income and investment is 50 million , thus telkom itself is making profit , but causing a 40 million rand loss each year . I dont know the exact figures , so i am just giving examples . Such an article could lead to people getting a better understanding of how badly telkom is hurting the country and its people while it makes huge profits each year and every year , and even though it is making such huge profits the rest of the country is going backwards for it .
 
A recent report by telecoms consultant Paul Cole reckons the managed liberalisation policy has resulted in consumers paying 440 times more than they should for voice and data services.
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That "440 times" error first appeared in the M&G and seems to be spreading like wildfire. It should be 440%. You would expect an editor reading over this to think, "440 times? WTF?" :eek:
 
why would government listen and unbundle the local loop - if they do, they would not be able to call meetings about the meetings, and get their doughnut dose of the day!.
 
LabAnimal said:
why would government listen and unbundle the local loop - if they do, they would not be able to call meetings about the meetings, and get their doughnut dose of the day!.
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I was saying the same thing as well about the bosberaad they called last week:confused: Again they are waisting everybody's time calling the meetings to discuss things they should have implemented already. I don't know the outcome of the meetings, but I saw they had Mark Shuttleworth there and I said what a waste of the guys time!!:(
 
Look @ the track record

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Government has the opportunity to create a truly competitive, world- class industry. It should take care not to miss out — again.
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How many times must we see what's happening before we start to face facts and realise that government has not "missed out". If only it was public knowledge how many people (names included) have benefitted solely from Telkom's monopoly and high prices being protected by government over the years. I'm beginning to seriously doubt that "managed liberalism" was just some random idea that came into being years ago - somebody saw an opportunity back then to directly profit from the situation we now find ourselves in and just enough people have been included to keep the status quo over the years. America had it's Watergate and Enron scandles, I won't be surprised if one day there's a SA movie about the Telkom Scandle(tm) making headlines around the world

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