Could state meddling rescue SA telecoms?

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Except that you misrepresented this network as belonging to Neotel.
Your misrepresentation is misleading, and makes my previous comment about government providing for itself look incorrect.

I have no idea why I am being so fickle.
Perhaps I should cut back on the coffee.

Maybe it is the coffee However, the service is certainly provided to SITA by Neotel, based on Neotel's offerings in the market - they said so. It's not at all clear yet what Infraco may offer, or what they could offer (products, pricing, customer service, SLAs etc).

Presumably there is some form of contract in place that makes the network available exclusively to Neotel (at the moment). I wouldn't call it misrepresentation - Neotel itself has never made any secret of this.

Since Neotel and MTN are now jointly building a national fibre network, presumably this situation is also changing.

 

[Vice]

I don't know whether this is good or bad for us. All I can say is " something is wrong in SA and I wish I new what it is". There is no competition here, irrespective how many players you bring. In context, please look at the collusion phenomenon, hey, maybe that's where the problem is

 

[Vrotappel]

I voted yes because proper meddling by people who know what they are doing will help.

With the current lot, I don't think so.

 

[ic]

A sensible restriction would be to ban Infraco from selling bandwidth to the large companies that form the bread and butter business for the private sector. But if it sells wholesale capacity only to other operators, then the private sector seems to endorse its activities.

I seem to vaguely recall the allegedly smart Alec once saying that Broadband Infraco would be a well run state enterprise - or some such bollocks, however, I don't see why Infraco should be restricted in its activities when Telkodemonopolies etc are not similarly restricted.

PS: I voted no in case that was not obvious.

 

[davemc]

Maybe it is the coffee However, the service is certainly provided to SITA by Neotel, based on Neotel's offerings in the market - they said so. It's not at all clear yet what Infraco may offer, or what they could offer (products, pricing, customer service, SLAs etc).

Presumably there is some form of contract in place that makes the network available exclusively to Neotel (at the moment). I wouldn't call it misrepresentation - Neotel itself has never made any secret of this.

Since Neotel and MTN are now jointly building a national fibre network, presumably this situation is also changing.

Thanks for the details ads.
Life in the local loop is becoming more interesting by the day.

 

[Tns]

state will always meddle and it does seem to be good quick fix at the time but what is needed is a long term sulotion