Finally, telecoms competition arrives

When you can buy 1 gig at R19 from Axxess, I don't see how this can be bargain in any sense of the word.

There is no competition in the fixed-line market. You cannot even begin to compare wireless internet technologies to fixed-line fibre and copper, so let's not pretend that you can. South Africa got sold down the river with regards to Neotel. We were promised a second fixed-line provider and all we got was another sub-standard wireless internet provider. What they failed to mention was that, as always, it's businesses and not consumers that benefit in South Africa from new telecoms technology and so it was with Neotel.

When Neotel starts digging up the streets around my suburb to lay down fibre to my house, then we can start talking about competition in the fixed-line market.
 
copacetic said:
I am not sure I understand.
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There's nothing to understand... and nothing to see here. Move along now.

Neotel is nowhere near any kind of competition for Telkom.

Telkom is not a "former monopoly" ... it is, and remains a government and regulator protected monopoly.
 
Garyvdh said:
There's nothing to understand... and nothing to see here. Move along now.

Neotel is nowhere near any kind of competition for Telkom.

Telkom is not a "former monopoly" ... it is, and remains a government and regulator protected monopoly.
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Yep and in full agreement to everything you've said.
 
What a terrible article. You may just as well remove it from the site and the archives.
Its just a waste of perfectly good virtual internet paper.
 
Just_Ice said:
What a terrible article. You may just as well remove it from the site and the archives.
Its just a waste of perfectly good virtual internet paper.
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Yeah, it feels like an INSULT to Mybb and it's members. *spits on artice...!*
 
This deal is not too bad, R99 for 500mb and 500 sms's as well, that's great. How are the speeds? 200kb/s or so? That's slow but OK.

Neotel would do well if they gave a **** about their customers. I even tried to get Neotel for my girlfriend but they didn't seem interested in having me as a customer or something.
 
deweyzeph said:
When you can buy 1 gig at R19 from Axxess, I don't see how this can be bargain in any sense of the word.

There is no competition in the fixed-line market. You cannot even begin to compare wireless internet technologies to fixed-line fibre and copper, so let's not pretend that you can. South Africa got sold down the river with regards to Neotel. We were promised a second fixed-line provider and all we got was another sub-standard wireless internet provider. What they failed to mention was that, as always, it's businesses and not consumers that benefit in South Africa from new telecoms technology and so it was with Neotel.

When Neotel starts digging up the streets around my suburb to lay down fibre to my house, then we can start talking about competition in the fixed-line market.
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Eggsactly
 
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