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ICASA admits failure to bring down costs
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Sadly, only the napalming of Poison Ivy's arse will result in the resignation of her plants like the incompetent narcoleptic Paris Mashile.
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Juice
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Er... hahaha?
LCBXX
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ICASA admits nogal? Sounds like Paris and the Minister of Transport dine together. Looking at some of the traffic ideas from the Transport Department, it seems that they think that people get up at 07:00 just to drive around on the highways until 10:00?
No no, you don't understand. The gubmint NEEDS more money, more luxury cars, holidays, gifts, donuts etc etc... Its got nothing to do with the people!
ShaunSA
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Paris Mashile is an Afrikaans box 
gregmcc
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It should be ICASA admits they are completely useless!
i'll second that. he actually admitted that icasa is useless.
bekdik
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No doubt Paris will receive a quadtruple cheque for his support of Telkom and its shareholders.
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What happened to the cost analysis that Telkom was supposed to supply to ICASA?
Highflyer_GP
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I really wish they'd get over this InfraCo BS and just open the bloody market up already!
For a regulator to openly state that they put their trust in a government entity speaks volumes about whose side the regulator is really on.
ffs man
Primates run telecommunications throughout the world. Last I checked, human beings were classified as part of the primate class.
Please note that I exclude the snakes at Telkom from the primate class.
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Let's see ...
Paging through the history books ...
"Telkom will not abuse it's protected monopoly status. Government has majority shares which it intends to use to protect the South African consumer."
... Years later ...
"Telecoms prices are too high. We need to introduce competition but we are not admitting that 'managed liberalism' is a failure - only that, perhaps, previous implementations thereof was lacking. We'll introduce the SNO and prices will drop!"
... Even more years later ...
"Neotel can no longer have the backhaul network we promised them as prices are still too high and only goverment can ensure price reductions through Infraco. We'll also lay our own submarine cables sometime in the future (just don't ask when)"
"No, no, no. Government needs to retain the Telkom shares in order to safeguard the country in the event of a tsnunami. It doesn't matter that telecoms prices are still too high. Government can't just tell Telkom to reduce prices, the share profits / revenue would decrease
... a new discovery is made ...
"Don't let everyone dig up our roads, have everyone go through a single CIV to lay the fibre and lease it to operators. Makes logistical sense afterall. Let's hope this single provider won't charge too much."
With SA business heavily reliant on BEE status, this makes one wonder which millionaire african elitists has shares in yet another lucrative telecoms cash-making machine?
... Present ...
"ICASA has failed to reduce prices. Mr Mashile (immune to criticism) has forgotten his 'promise' of delivery by ICASA or he'd resign, now places all of South Africa's telecoms hopes in Infraco to be 'miracle' cure instead of getting ICASA in shape and on par with overseas regulators in terms of effectiveness, efficiency and strength."
... hmm, this isn't a history book - it's the Shame of SA Governance and the Pride of Corruption handbook /sarcasm.
Talk about putting all your eggs in one basket (yet again). Can nobody in government realise short-sightedness is not the right way to run a country? Price reductions, penetration rates, improved speed and quality service to promote the country and allow us to compete in the global economy should have multiple projects working towards the same goals (yet with a centralised oversight body to reduce inefficiencies and keep costs to a minimum). Yes, it requires effort and quailified personnel but it's not like the powers-that-be are not being paid to do the job. Oh wait, I forget about the gravy-train / free-ride / entitlement attitude ... Please someone take accountability and show me wrong before it's too late
Paging through the history books ...
"Telkom will not abuse it's protected monopoly status. Government has majority shares which it intends to use to protect the South African consumer."
... Years later ...
"Telecoms prices are too high. We need to introduce competition but we are not admitting that 'managed liberalism' is a failure - only that, perhaps, previous implementations thereof was lacking. We'll introduce the SNO and prices will drop!"
... Even more years later ...
"Neotel can no longer have the backhaul network we promised them as prices are still too high and only goverment can ensure price reductions through Infraco. We'll also lay our own submarine cables sometime in the future (just don't ask when)"
"No, no, no. Government needs to retain the Telkom shares in order to safeguard the country in the event of a tsnunami. It doesn't matter that telecoms prices are still too high. Government can't just tell Telkom to reduce prices, the share profits / revenue would decrease
... a new discovery is made ...
"Don't let everyone dig up our roads, have everyone go through a single CIV to lay the fibre and lease it to operators. Makes logistical sense afterall. Let's hope this single provider won't charge too much."
With SA business heavily reliant on BEE status, this makes one wonder which millionaire african elitists has shares in yet another lucrative telecoms cash-making machine?
... Present ...
"ICASA has failed to reduce prices. Mr Mashile (immune to criticism) has forgotten his 'promise' of delivery by ICASA or he'd resign, now places all of South Africa's telecoms hopes in Infraco to be 'miracle' cure instead of getting ICASA in shape and on par with overseas regulators in terms of effectiveness, efficiency and strength."
... hmm, this isn't a history book - it's the Shame of SA Governance and the Pride of Corruption handbook /sarcasm.
Talk about putting all your eggs in one basket (yet again). Can nobody in government realise short-sightedness is not the right way to run a country? Price reductions, penetration rates, improved speed and quality service to promote the country and allow us to compete in the global economy should have multiple projects working towards the same goals (yet with a centralised oversight body to reduce inefficiencies and keep costs to a minimum). Yes, it requires effort and quailified personnel but it's not like the powers-that-be are not being paid to do the job. Oh wait, I forget about the gravy-train / free-ride / entitlement attitude ... Please someone take accountability and show me wrong before it's too late