Local not so lekker

fair enough but may i be the first to welcome mr slingsby to the prevailing reality of the past 15 years. seems like the kind of story published 4 years ago ...
 
you know they say talk is cheap, and what you sow, so shall you reap. The best things in life are free, but there is nothing worse than a monopoly - Telkom come lately
 
just another thing we knew about already, and telkom at the root of the problem
 
This is old news (we all know it). Just sad to see that it is still going on today.
 
Telkom is taking what the tax payer bought(telecoms infrastructure) and turned it into their cash cow.

There isn't supposed to be per month line rental charges. No other goverment in the world allows their telecoms regulator to charge the public line rental(internet access). It's just as much a goverment problem as it is Telkom.
 
..then use Neotel. There is no monopoly anymore and as he has pointed out, there are clever ways of reducing cost - without these clever ways, clever companies using clever ways to save money for their clients wouldn't be in business.
 
Hey my uncle does something to the same effect - he exports his oranges to Sweden, and then imports them back on a Cargo - he then sticks a sticker on it that says "Imported from Sweden"

Ok not really, but it's the same looneyness.

All Telkom is doing is taking money out of the country, and feeding it to the UK.
 
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I have been using TruPhone to call landlines in SA from my mobile phone for a while now. Still I cannot understand why some people still chose to be Telkom customers.
 
So it is cheaper to phone via international, but that would mean money is leaving the country? Money leaving the country can only mean R/$ going down the drain.

So it looks like we are screwed from both ends. If we go local, we pay Telkom exorbitant amounts and they still have to pay their foreign debt. So we are nailed. If we go directly international, we skip the Telkom process, but the money still leaves the country.

So what is the solution, go Neotel? I'm not entirely sure that is favourable, especially since their latest product Neoflex, clamps down on data usage, which would have been ideal for doing video conference all day long.

I see the WUG combined with municipalities' networks to interlink each other for residential. Business still rely on SLA from their communication/service provider. Neotel is also a foreign company, which means investment, jobs created, but money is slowly but surely going to leave this country.

Competition is still the way forward to push down prices, but money will leave our country :(
 
Has Mark Slingby been asleep the last 10-15 years? Did he just wake up to what's been going on since inception of telecoms in South Africa? Is his coffee cold?

Seriously, this article reads a bit like a marketing spiel with him continually saying how his company can offer better.
 
Gaz{M} said:
..then use Neotel. There is no monopoly anymore and as he has pointed out, there are clever ways of reducing cost - without these clever ways, clever companies using clever ways to save money for their clients wouldn't be in business.
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Not true - Telkodemonopolies still has a de facto monopoly on the wired local loop and ADSL.
 
Local notso lekker is closer to home

Although Mark Slingsby has a few valid points, All this is old news to everyone. It sounds more like a gripe from a struggling company (in their case, 4 under one roof). As far as Mark's comment goes with regards to VOIP over iburst, well lts face it, if you are an iburst reseller, then you would try to promote something that clearly is not meant to be. the quality is non existant.

This is the result of young and rising companies with young college graduates for director's, with all the degree's and no real bussiness experience trying to impress the public with long dragged out statements that were actually made 5 years ago. Come on guys, you could be a little more original............
 
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