More competition needed, says minister

LOL... you can start by looking at the ties that government still has with Telkom. Get rid of that protection racket and then start putting the pressure on Telkom. and get those ICASA buffoons to start doing their job. they can start by unblundling the local loop.

Basically, just do the opposite of what Ivy did and you should be OK.
 
Garyvdh said:
LOL... you can start by looking at the ties that government still has with Telkom. Get rid of that protection racket and then start putting the pressure on Telkom. and get those ICASA buffoons to start doing their job. they can start by unblundling the local loop.

Basically, just do the opposite of what Ivy did and you should be OK.
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Bravo! Brilliant post! :)
 
I seriously think that Zuma's troops are going to make out the best government we have seen in a long time. This article smells of a minister who wants change.

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“Someone will die today.”

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“Someone will be born today.”

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“You will eat food within the next 30 days.”

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“Tomorrow will be another day.”

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Didn't Iccasa, or the competition board, recently hold an inquiry into the telecoms market?
didn't MTN & Vodacom meet in London and agreed to raise call termination costs from R0.25 to R1.25 to stiffle competition and keep Cell C out of the market?
 
Like the previous posts have said.
Inevitable Craping on All South Africans needs members that can actually think for themselves and the country and not favouring on a set of people without proper reason.
 
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ICASA need to focus on 3 things right now:
1. LLU
2. Interconnect agreements between ALL operators
3. Enforcing licence agreements

To really stimulate competition the government must sell all its shares in MTN, Telkom and Vodacom, etc. held directly or indirectly via the PIC.

Currently it has too much of a vested interest in the telecoms market. Directly via being a shareholder and indirectly via their pension fund investments through the PIC.

Infraco must either be sold off to the highest bidder or be listed as a private company in the mould of Dark Fibre Africa, with zero government control or vested interest.
 
So far this guy (Simphiwe Nyanda) said a lot but did nothing. Same old, same old.

He also suggested that the competition authorities might have to be brought in to look at the way the market operated.
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Didn't Telkom tell them to go jump of a bridge?
 
Nah...

Juggernaut said:
I seriously think that Zuma's troops are going to make out the best government we have seen in a long time. This article smells of a minister who wants change.

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I can't say that I share your optimism.. what the minister is saying is what people want to hear, nothing more.
I'd be more optimistic if he addressed the issues of the past, stating that the past handling of it was in the wrong, and adding a little "ballpark" strategy that's already been set in motion.

This sounds like the normal old blah crap to me.
 
Forget about ZUMAS Troops.
He (ZUMA) has been awful quiet of LATE but he was seen at the Soccer
 
Simphiwe Nyanda said that it might be necessary to introduce further competition into the telecoms industry
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He also suggested that the competition authorities might have to be brought in to look at the way the market operated.
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Which was semi-believable, until I read the following:
He told a media briefing in Parliament that the telecommunications regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA, Icasa, is finalising regulations that will address competition matters.
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My revised forecast is that Simphiwe Nyanda has not got a clue, and nothing will change until Paris Mashile and that [other] incompetent narcoleptic Poison Ivy plant [who knocked 3% off the value of the ZAR] are sacked with extreme prejudice.
 
ICASA have been "finalising" regulations to address competition for the last 5 years. Someone lend them a dictionary, so they can understand what "finalising" means.
 
the introduction of a second national operator for telephone landlines did not lead to the healthy kind of competition that they expected
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Yeah Mr Minister, we were also expecting a lot more from Neotel. Too bad they disappointed both of us. I call "use it or lose it" if Neotel don't introduce fixed line offerings to consumers by the end of 2009 they should be stripped of their license, and sent packing.
 
Wyzak said:
Yeah Mr Minister, we were also expecting a lot more from Neotel. Too bad they disappointed both of us. I call "use it or lose it" if Neotel don't introduce fixed line offerings to consumers by the end of 2009 they should be stripped of their license, and sent packing.
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+1
 
This new Minister seems to be getting the idea, but he still hasn't grasped the basic structure of the market. We don't need more competitors in South Africa, we need proper regulations to make it possible for the current players to compete fairly. Anyone can have (and has) an ECNS licence now - that's got nothing to do with ability to compete.

What about just finalising the regulations to reduce interconnection rates? What about local loop unbundling? What about actually issuing some WiMAX spectrum?

For those who think that it would be a great idea to punish new entrants like Neotel who've managed to make some inroads (particularly in national and international infrastructure, and in the business market) despite the severely skewed playing field, you're probably also missing the point. The role of legislation and regulation in this market is to encourage competition, by creating an investor-friendly environment. Neotel is the closest to achieving real competition, through its investment in substantial new fibre infrastructure, judging by Telkom's reaction and market share decline - what they need is support and more favourable regulation.

The alternative to encouraging private sector competition is obvious - everything will be provided by Sentech, Infraco, and whatever remains of Telkom.
 
Wyzak said:
Yeah Mr Minister, we were also expecting a lot more from Neotel. Too bad they disappointed both of us. I call "use it or lose it" if Neotel don't introduce fixed line offerings to consumers by the end of 2009 they should be stripped of their license, and sent packing.
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i agree untill neotell has fixed lines thats when the reall competition begins ...until then telskum still owns us:mad:
 
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