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(In Morocco) "Menara offers an unlimited 128 Kbps ADSL service for R 108.00 per month and an unlimited 256 Kbps service for R 141.00 per month"
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This is embarrassing. :(
 
I am sorry telkom but this is pathetic. Stop raping this country, we are suffering enough as it is with other costs at least give us cheaper internet, something to compete with other 3rd world countries.

I really cant believe how things are going in this country, Telkom, get your fingers out your **** and do something about it.
 
We should stop telling telkom that they are ripping us off, and instead suggest to them another that they could in fact increase their income. It's a concept called Sell Cheap, Sell Often.
 
the rest of the world has better internet than SA
 
The argument that we are at the arse end of the world and must therefore donate a kidney to afford broadband is a rather weak argument. I don't even feel like pointing out countries that are similarly situated, yet offer affordable services. Drop the prices, get a gazzillion more subscribers, it's still profitable, and doable.
 
cablemonkey said:
Morocco again. We talked about this last time. Perhaps this time I'll use a visual aid.

http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography/atlas/alcatel_large.gif

See how close they are to Europe?
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This definitely has an impact, but still does not justify the prices of international bandwidth in South Africa. One of the biggest issues faced by South Africa in this respect is failed ICT policy, which has not promoted services like broadband. Vested interests in government and amongst people close to government are more tied to companies that benefit from high telecoms prices, like Telkom, Vodacom and MTN.
An affordable broadband policy requires a departure from existing revenue streams, and might threaten these vested interests.

Telkom also have no interest or incentive to provide a wide rollout of ADSL. Rather, it makes commercial sense for them to limit rollout, and derive as much revenue as possible from its ADSL users. In the absence of any policy, which either drives competition, or forces Telkom to drop prices, this will not change quickly.
 
Balstrome said:
We should stop telling telkom that they are ripping us off, and instead suggest to them another that they could in fact increase their income. It's a concept called Sell Cheap, Sell Often.
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You know I'm sure that the true meaning of [searchforum]"Economies of Scale"[/searchforum] has been explained to Telkodemonopolies in at least a few posts, and yet Telkodemonopolies continues to operate like a monopoly - go figure...:rolleyes: :mad:

IMO we have collectively stopped trying to give Telkodemonopolies quality advice on how best to operate its raping & pillaging business, and have instead opted for preaching the message of calling for Poison Ivy and her arse-end of a [mis]Managed Liberalization policy that protects Telkodemonopolies' monopoly, to be unceremoniously fired, such that market forces, i.e. competition, can start to rectify the considerable damage done by Telkodemonopolies and guavamentalists Poison Ivy & Stalin-Mafole over at the Dementia of Communistications, unfortunately Mbeki seems to have a reason for not firing incompetent narcoleptic ministers, and I doubt that Zuma will be any different.
cablemonkey said:
Morocco again. We talked about this last time. Perhaps this time I'll use a visual aid.

http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography/atlas/alcatel_large.gif

See how close they are to Europe?
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Ok, how do you explain why local-only SAIX-ADSL is so exorbitantly expensive, and why Telkodemonopolies charges such high local & national rental fees when none of that traffic gets routed to Europe?
 
ic said:
You know I'm sure that the true meaning of [searchforum]"Economies of Scale"[/searchforum] has been explained to Telkodemonopolies in at least a few posts, and yet Telkodemonopolies continues to operate like a monopoly - go figure...:rolleyes: :mad:

IMO we have collectively stopped trying to give Telkodemonopolies quality advice on how best to operate its raping & pillaging business, and have instead opted for preaching the message of calling for Poison Ivy and her arse-end of a [mis]Managed Liberalization policy that protects Telkodemonopolies' monopoly, to be unceremoniously fired, such that market forces, i.e. competition, can start to rectify the considerable damage done by Telkodemonopolies and guavamentalists Poison Ivy & Stalin-Mafole over at the Dementia of Communistications, unfortunately Mbeki seems to have a reason for not firing incompetent narcoleptic ministers, and I doubt that Zuma will be any different.Ok, how do you explain why local-only SAIX-ADSL is so exorbitantly expensive, and why Telkodemonopolies charges such high local & national rental fees when none of that traffic gets routed to Europe?
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Money! Money! Money!.. It's a rich mans world! *starts to sing ABBA song ;)*

more like Telkom has the upper hand and is using it to thier advnatage, you see they fail to understand, that more poeple paying less = more money... unlike them less people paying more = more money :rolleyes: :confused:
 
Our account/service charges are close to british rates BUUUTTTTT with one or 2 things not so :)

- Most of their accounts are uncaped (for more or less the same price we get 3gig int cap)
- Their minimum wages are 5.50 pounds / hour so they can afford it!!
(Same as their petrol prices 90p - 1pound / liter = R15, but they again can buy 5-6 liters of petrol for 1 hours work, in SA you need to be earning R40 - R48 per hour to do the same!!!! (our minimum wage is around R10 / hour i believe)
 
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