Mbeki blocks Telkom CEO

Ispy said:
September engineered every executive's exit from Telkom since 2005 , to make way for himself. Plus there is a huge dossier doing its rounds about him and unholy relationship with big telecoms suppliers. Every one is afraid to confirm him, in case the dossier hits headlines. (believe Beeld has it though)
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Please give us a link if you have one.
 
Mbeki has criticised Telkom a number of times in the past -
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Telecoms/1106.html
http://mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=6058
http://www.fin24.co.za/articles/default/display_article.aspx?ArticleId=1518-25_1993025
http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/telecoms/2005/0502111239.asp

Leaving this beast from the past to the trudge along on it's own may not be the best decision as well. If Mbeki decides to influence the decision on Telkom's next CEO then he has no excuse to criticise Telkom yet again. Right!

Neotel already has access to International undersea cables; while Vodacom, MTN, Cell C, local municipalities and the VANS are already providing voice and data services to the consumer and corporate market. If the new Telkom CEO like his predecessors isn't able to lead the company and Telkom continues to charge high costs for telephony and data what is the worst that can happen? All (or most) customers will switch to the competitors.

W.
 
Ispy said:
September engineered every executive's exit from Telkom since 2005 , to make way for himself. Plus there is a huge dossier doing its rounds about him and unholy relationship with big telecoms suppliers. Every one is afraid to confirm him, in case the dossier hits headlines. (believe Beeld has it though)
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Got anything to back that up?
 
Now shooting the Messenger !!!! Am sorry to crush your illusions on September
 
..... and talk to managers at Telkom about his ruthless methods. I am one of them....
 
We're not shooting the messenger, it'd just be nice to see something concrete to back up your statements.
 
rpm said:
What Ispy is referring to is not completely unknown. I don’t think any big stories have been done on the issue and hence the lack of links. It may be a similar issue about the speculation about corruption in the case of Papi when he left Telkom: http://www.fmtech.co.za/telecoms/molotsane-exit-allegations-of-a-nigerian-connection/
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Interesting, I still wonder if Mbeki would be blocking his appointment for such noble reasons though. Got to love Lulu's euphemist, "facilitation fee". :D
 
WireFree said:
Mbeki has criticised Telkom a number of times in the past -
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Telecoms/1106.html
http://mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=6058
http://www.fin24.co.za/articles/default/display_article.aspx?ArticleId=1518-25_1993025
http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/telecoms/2005/0502111239.asp

Leaving this beast from the past to the trudge along on it's own may not be the best decision as well. If Mbeki decides to influence the decision on Telkom's next CEO then he has no excuse to criticise Telkom yet again. Right!
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Mbeki's lip-service criticisms of Telkodemonopolies, have not resulted in concrete action by his minions at the Dementia of Communistications - Poison Ivy & Stalin-Mafole, to use majority guavamental voting power on Telkodemonopolies board to reduce telecoms costs.

Mbeki & Poison Ivy need to stop protecting Telkodemonopolies' monopoly status and instead expose Telkodemonopolies to a fully liberalised telecoms market where the fittest survive and the weakest get gobbled up if they fail to compete and maintain profitability etc.
WireFree said:
Neotel already has access to International undersea cables;
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NeeTel has only just gained access to SAT-3 bandwidth - SAT-3 is only one submarine cable and also the one with the most exorbitant pricing, IMO it's unclear as to whether NeeTel has gained access to the SAFE cable which joins up with SAT-3 at Melkbosstrand, also NeeTel is having to pay Telkodemonopolies for this, see this other thread for more info:
[thread=94297]Neotel gains access to SAT3/SAFE...[/thread]
Ispy said:
September engineered every executive's exit from Telkom since 2005 , to make way for himself.
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If so, it sounds like he is a ruthless businessman worthy of running a major telecoms company...
Ispy said:
Plus there is a huge dossier doing its rounds about him and unholy relationship with big telecoms suppliers. Every one is afraid to confirm him, in case the dossier hits headlines. (believe Beeld has it though)
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Sounds juicy, are you maybe referring to the whole HP debacle where Telkodemonopolies is shooting itself in the foot? - as described in the following thread:
[thread=94298]Suppliers blacklisted...[/thread]
Ispy said:
..... and talk to managers at Telkom about his ruthless methods. I am one of them....
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Ok, please tell us about September's ruthless methods, we're all ears :).
 
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I always think of Telkom as our very own Blood Diamonds or the Wealth Tax in Drag - Tabs and Ivy are like a Politically Correct version of Punch and Judy, you want to laugh but it's just not funny


One wonders why things are the way they are, but I would think by now that even Telkom have worked out that they have made a mess of things. There are Trade agreement like GATT that have guidelines regarding Telecommunications, and chances are trade and Telecommunication industries Overseas have been having a few words to say, and can see that Telkom are really just a one trick Pony


" Last Monday Telkom issued a trading statement, saying it expected basic earnings per share for the six months ending September 30 to be between 14% and 20% lower than in the same period in 2006 "

I would be interested to see if their fixed line numbers have dropped, for what I have heard they are losing numbers by the bucket load

" Telkom said its aggressive marketing — whereby bundled services were offered at discounts — and an increase in investments in materials and maintenance were the main reasons for this "

First off, only Home users get the bundled services... which just goes to show were their targets are set at

If they spent less on Advertising they could have used that money to up-grade equipment, a classic example is the Telkom Knock-out

They are in grave danger of a Catastrophic melt down, their prices are too high and they are full of it. Without going into all the details, imagine if Cellphone operators dropped their prices (which is very much on the cards soon) considering that you do not have to pay R 3,60 a day for a fixed line and that is without making a single call, it might well get to the point were Telkom would have out priced themselves - There are other problems facing them as well, big nasty things that they wish would go away, and if they do not think about them they hope that they will., but they are going to gobble them up


Telkom Come Lately

You know they say, talk is cheap
and what you sow, so shall you reap
the best things in life are free
but there's nothing worse, than a monopoly
 
In SA there is no difference between private company and state sector, both are equally opportunistic and monopolistic. Look at the cell phone operators, look at the pay TV services....
 
Wow... this is scary, look what I found while tidying up

World Trade Organisation

Section 5a of GATS

The Annex on Telecommunications requires WTO members (in this case South Africa)

Section 1 of the reference papers requires members to maintain " Appropriate measures for the purpose of preventing major suppliers from engaging in Anti Competitive practises "

Bet we could have very little trouble putting in the words Telkom and Competition Commission, after all a regulator cannot be in the business of dealing with Anti Competitive practises, their job is writing regulations, even if they look like something a six year old wrote on a bad day... LOL

Hey maybe we can lay a complaint with the WTO
 
I love it, TBone wont step in to bring down prices affecting millions of people, jumps in about the acting CEO and actively goes about to find out why the last CEO quit?

Oh please!

I'm sure September is just another $izwe or Papi at best, but it sounds like we have a fall guy being constructed by our GubMint right now.

Dementia of Communistications and Mbeki of Borg hard at work again!
 
We noticed by chance that the areas hit by blackouts are rich areas and not poor areas.
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Possibly because rich areas with geysers, air conditioning, underfloor heating, pools etc. draws a lot more power than a poor area? If you need to drop consumption quickly, you turn off the big consumers?
Complete speculation, and would need facts to confirm...

but it sounds like we have a fall guy being constructed by our GubMint right now.
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Its like a school yard game of tag. You touched it last - it all went wrong on when you were in charge... So who do you think that the guvmint want in charge then? They wouldn't be going to all this trouble unless they had a preferred candidate? Perhaps when Thabo gets the ANC pres for a third term JZ will be looking for a job?:)
 
My vote is that September's skin colour is too pale to be the CEO of the parastatal.
 
jacob zuma for telkom ceo! "

dude, seriously, i need to download Team Fortress 2 this loving weekend, no seriously, dude dont swop my bandwidth for another loving Fighter Jet from Germany cmoooon maaaaan!"

heres a fun fact: The last words from any telkom ceo for the rest of time WILL always end with the words "eish...."

peace.
 
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