Government plan to cut data prices

So this will be pretty pointless, like most of their other "efforts"

Expect data costs to go up as a result of this I would gather.
 
So what is this, policy no. 4 or 5, or policy no. 9 or 10?

We've been around this block many times.
 
We'll have to wait and see, but not going to hold my breath for anything dramatic any time soon.
 
In May 2007 the then Minister of Communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said local loop unbundling should urgently be completed by 2011.
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It also revealed that the ministry plans to have an approved local loop unbundling strategy by March 2017.
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So not only does the deadline keep moving out, the deliverables decrease? From completing LLU in 2011, to having a strategy in 2017? This is madness.
 
This whole budget speech stinks. Everything is designed to squeeze the middle and upper class to the max, just to make sure there is enough grub in the trough. This is all elegantly disguised as a formal budget speech made to look like the countries best interests are at heart.
 
plans to have developed a policy directive for the reduction of data costs.
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In the next few years there going to be another telco minister and the plans going to start over again like in previous years.
 
kaaskop said:
In the next few years there going to be another telco minister and the plans going to start over again like in previous years.
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The next few years? I'll bet you we will have a new minister by this time next year.
 
Please kill OOB, please kill OOB, please kill OOB. Especially Vodacom's R2 OOB
That would be real progress for once.
0.50c for OOB, no more!

All that money that is lost through OOB could of been used to buy real data.
There's also this big problem with prepaid with the smaller sized bundles.

I mean R99 for 500 Meg.
R150 for 1Gig.

Come on, that's the kind of data townships would go for and their paying the premium.

R50 for 500Meg, R100 for 1 Gig, that should be the most any network carrier could ask.
Then it's just a matter of the actual technology to get people connected.
 
The_Librarian said:
pffft, let the market sort itself out, no need for fat guavamint fingers in the pie as well...
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This. Stop regulating and deregulate instead.

furpile said:
So not only does the deadline keep moving out, the deliverables decrease? From completing LLU in 2011, to having a strategy in 2017? This is madness.
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Maybe they can achieve small goals. Will wait and see.
 
HideInLight said:
Please kill OOB, please kill OOB, please kill OOB. Especially Vodacom's R2 OOB
That would be real progress for once.
0.50c for OOB, no more!

All that money that is lost through OOB could of been used to buy real data.
There's also this big problem with prepaid with the smaller sized bundles.

I mean R99 for 500 Meg.
R150 for 1Gig.

Come on, that's the kind of data townships would go for and their paying the premium.

R50 for 500Meg, R100 for 1 Gig, that should be the most any network carrier could ask.
Then it's just a matter of the actual technology to get people connected.
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R1 per GB is where it should have been now if there was no colluding. If only the Competition Commission would look into all those years where Vodacom and MTN decided to copy data prices it would be a huge victory.
 
Oh and the spectrum, at this point I wouldn't mind if it all goes to MTN and Vodacom.
On the condition that they cannot ask more than 10c a Meg including OOB.
 
Big plans, budget approved and paid over and money spent but nothing happens.
 
So will they be selling their stake in Vodacom to bail out Eskom or will they be buying the rest of Vodacom so they can force it to lower data prices?

#soconfused
 
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