EASSy to compete head on with SAT3

[MaD]

remember "we will not differentiate on price" (and from their perspective it would be a silly thing to do given how much money they have and will put in)

All the more reason to have lower prices, or everyone may just stick with the devil they know..

 

[dominic]

All the more reason to have lower prices, or everyone may just stick with the devil they know..

as you well know there is a critical mass of people and businesses who will move just because they can get away from telkom - too many bad experiences, bad stories, lifetimes whiled away while on hold....afaik the snot business model is not in any way based on using a price war or aggressive pricing reductions in order to attract customers

& telkom has a big war chest - in a sense would be playing into their hands

...meanwhile the municipalities start looking at what is happening with wifi in cities in the US (look at muniwireless) and begin to see the possibilities

hmmm

 

[Mememe]

De-Regulation of the market is the answer, not prices set by ICASA. Prices are set by economics...supply and demand. When SNO is asked how much do you charge for bandwith...the answer will probably be...Tell me what Telkom charge and I will ask 10% less. Unless more players are in the market, don't brace yourself for lower prices. If everything did ot take so long in this country then this forum would have been a forum to share ideas and experiences and not turned into the days moaning session by it's members.

 

[kilo39]

I'm sure SNOT have the option of ripping off customers in india - but from the prices we've seen they haven't done that... I'm sure SNOT could provide to the privileged few if they wanted - but they don't seem to have chosen this route. Can't see that infrastructure is any easier in india than here. SNOT don't seem to have a reputation as a hated company. To all intents Tata is a massive conglomerate that dwarves telkom - dominates in their market withoug being a bully. Only unfortunate thing so far; that statement about pricing... and their not so large 28%(?) I'm hoping they bring their good business sense here.

 

[friedpiggy]

heres an idea for telkom. if you keep saying the cap is because there isnt sufficient bandwidth available, why not develop an eassy type cable yourselves. lets see, it costs $200 mill. using an exchange rate of $1 to R7 which is higher than it really is that works out to R1400 mill or R1,4 bill. now telkom had a profit of R6 or R7 Bill last year as far as
i know so they cannot say. "oh but its so expensive."

oh no wait. sorry, morning coffee is kicking in now. That wont ever happen because then the guavas dont get their piece o the pie. was in my happy place where telkom doesnt suck the life force out of me.