India broadband tariffs cut in half

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NEW DELHI, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- India's state telecom majors plan to slash broadband tariffs by 50 percent in an effort to increase market penetration.

The Hindu Times said Friday that MTNL and BSNL are taking the bold step in order to pump some life into the government's goal of a major increase in broadband subscriptions by the end of the year.

Cost has been blamed for the relatively lukewarm increase in subscriptions, and some smaller private companies have reported a jump in new customers after they lowered their prices, the newspaper said.

Regulators have also called for unbundling of last-mile services in order to boost competition at the retail level.
 
*sigh* i would say something 'classic' like : "are you listening Telkom?" but that would be just me wasting my precious breath. Like talking to that piece of dog faeces on your lawn - exactly the same, except the piece of faeces could run a telecommunications company better that Telkom...
 
Q-Man said:
*sigh* i would say something 'classic' like : "are you listening Telkom?" but that would be just me wasting my precious breath. Like talking to that piece of dog faeces on your lawn - exactly the same, except the piece of faeces could run a telecommunications company better that Telkom...
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I was just about to reply with "And still Telkom refuse to see the light." :(
 
Wow, just to put the BMW and Mercedes sales folks minds at ease, it wont happen here so dont sweat it to much, there wont be an influx of used Beamers and Mercs being returned from Telkom exec's anytime soon because they halved the price of broadband. They are actually up'ing the prices so best get some new models for them.

Telkoms response to this will probably be a super dooper entry level offer of HomeDSL 96Kbps Fraudband with a 100meg cap, but its ok, you can buy more bandwidth if you need to download more than 10 emails and browse 9 and 1/2 webpages a day. You have to buy more or else you will be considered and ABUSER, omg, the horror.

I can see it now, doctors performing remote openheart surgery on a kid with the parents worried in the background, movie downloads and super fast browsing, all on Fraudband 96Kbps, this is the tv ad of course.

Then some of the isp lapdogs can jump in with some value added services like spam filtering, woohooo, and slap a phat markup on the service to boot.

vomit.
 
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Sneeky said:
Wow, just to put the BMW and Mercedes sales folks minds at ease, it wont happen here so dont sweat it to much, there wont be an influx of used Beamers and Mercs being returned from Telkom exec's anytime soon because they halved the price of broadband. They are actually up'ing the prices so best get some new models for them.
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Most likely if Telkom DID halve the price they would be able to afford better cars.. broadband increased BT's profits by over 30%.. but the guys at Telkom don't have open minds like the people do abroad. Sure, BT used to be exactly like Telkom, but look at them now.. their minimum broadband speed is 2Mbps.. yes, 2GB cap but its cheap as anything.

Telkom has always been of the mindset of 'Charge less people more, rather than charge more people less'. This is one of their biggest problems.
 
Didn't Mbeki use India as and example when comparing SA's high telecoms costs with other countries? This will mean that comparitively our situation has significantly worsened. What will Mbeki say about that? HAHA. :D
 
AdLo said:
Didn't Mbeki use India as and example when comparing SA's high telecoms costs with other countries? This will mean that comparitively our situation has significantly worsened. What will Mbeki say about that? HAHA. :D
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Does it matter? Nothing has happened since his promise in February. Clearly no one is listening to him which is not surprising as most people in Gov think they're a law unto themselves.
 
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What the hell is he going to say?
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Guys, these are politicians we're speaking about and Mbeki is as "politician" as you can get. In spite of SA having among the most expensive telecommunications services in the SA, somehow he's gonna make it seem as if it's not SO bad in SA. Simply because talk is cheap. That's why Poison Ivy has been able to get our away with murder while supporting Telkom, simply because all she needs to do is SAY that lower prices are needed. Whether she actually does introduce policies to lower telecoms costs, that's another matter.

That's what disgusts me about politicians in general. Mbeki is gonna stand on that podium and lie to all those people about how being part of the "Information Age" is critical to a country's success. Yet, back home, he's not really doing much to ensure this is the case with SA. Along with Poison Ivy, I blame him for letting Poison Ivy continue to make a mess of this important sector.
 
Well If Mr. Mbeki is going to mention deregulation, affordable communications and broadband, he should perhaps make good on his promises as the international community is watching SA closely.

The one major deterrent at the moment is the cost of doing business, which is massively increased by the price, and lack of speed/features of ADSL and telephone services.

Easy way to get investors to SA is to lower barriers of entry and lowering the cost of telecommunications takes no effort at all - just a few well thought-out ideas and a couple of signatures.
 
Because of the huge mess our telecoms is in such as the SNO, useless DoC + ICASA and the government not taking concrete steps to fix it, I find my self unintentionally calling our telecoms deregulation as telecoms deliberization. :o
 
heheh - another reason to laugh at Telkom or should I say laugh at the customers that support Telkom...yep us :(
 
An Indian is not known for charity. If India could halve its broadband cost, quite obviously the increased traffic would increase the telecommunication profit in India.

Let's all vote for an indian Telkom CEO
 
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