Interconnect dirty tricks: The big players respond

[rpm]

Interconnect dirty tricks: The Empires Strike Back

Vodacom says it is ‘mystified’ by Vox’s claims; MTN says Vox is benefitting from the current system; Telkom says the accusations against them are ‘rubbish’

 

[kingrob]

Douglas Reed might need a huge pot of Vaseline in the near future.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Typical doublespeak from the big boys.

 

[MoHaG]

Weird coming from Vox, a company that seem to be abusing interconnect charges in order to artificially inflate call prices to their network in order to pay their customers for incoming calls... (And probably responsible for a lot of the distrust in 087 numbers)

 

[Na-iem]

Who's to blame? ICASA, for being incompetent, impotent fools.

 

[nomnolence]

Have zero interest in 087 numbers... call quality is genearlly just not up to scratch (except perhaps for the scratchiness). Would far rather Telkom & Neotel (when the finally stop offering CDMA and realise we want *fixed* solutions), and then MTN, VC & CellC became competitive in the market - pushing 087 out of the business market completely. Shoddy VoIP is best saved for "close to free" options.

 

[samuelbowker]

This sounds just how questionable big businesses behave. I believe that what was stated by VOX is the truth, although their innocence also cannot be presumed.

 

[Creag]

I am not surprised that they would hit back with anything and everything that doesn't amount to fact, or provide evidence to the contrary. So, in the absence of any evidence to contradict the good words uttered by Vox, we must assume that what Vox is true.

I think back to the findings of the competition tribunal in the case of allegations by Tracetec that VESA, Tracker, Netstar and others colluded to prevent new entrants/competition to their chosen market. This doesn't sound too different to that. Interesting.

 

[Tns]

nice mudsling fest, i ponder if anyone would care to bet on who will win....