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Neotel: knight in fading armour
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And on what date will that be?
LifelongGamer
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Message to Neotel
Dear Mr Pandey,
We have heard all the promises and supposed tout Neotel intends to bring to the South African Telecoms Market. Where are the commercial / residential services you stated on record Neotel was 'on track' with to deliver after missing the mid-2007 deadline? We're officially into the 4th and final quarter for 2007 and it is becoming clearer with each press statement that nothing is really going change as Neotel has yet to prove it's achieved any substantial benefit for the South African consumer.
At the rate Neotel is heading, you will soon lose all respect from consumers dying to leave Telkom and take their business to you. Once the tipping point of resentment is reached, Neotel may very well be relegated to the same 'All talk, No action' club as GOAL. It would do you well to remember the moral behind the children's story "The boy who cried wolf".
Look back at any of my posts and you'll see I'm one of the many that are tired of being taken for a ride by Telkom. I'd like to give my business to you, but only if you prove you're better than Telkom. Take too long and I might very well give MTN / Vodacom a try once their fibre networks are installed. The providers don't matter to me. The quality of service and price do. So far, lip service is all I've seen from Neotel and that just don't cut it. Step up your game, Mr Pandey. I think the South African consumer has been forced to wait far too long already. Become the Knight and you will gain the trust of the people and revenue to double your intended R11Bn investment in the next decade.
Sincerely,
LLG.
Dear Mr Pandey,
We have heard all the promises and supposed tout Neotel intends to bring to the South African Telecoms Market. Where are the commercial / residential services you stated on record Neotel was 'on track' with to deliver after missing the mid-2007 deadline? We're officially into the 4th and final quarter for 2007 and it is becoming clearer with each press statement that nothing is really going change as Neotel has yet to prove it's achieved any substantial benefit for the South African consumer.
At the rate Neotel is heading, you will soon lose all respect from consumers dying to leave Telkom and take their business to you. Once the tipping point of resentment is reached, Neotel may very well be relegated to the same 'All talk, No action' club as GOAL. It would do you well to remember the moral behind the children's story "The boy who cried wolf".
Look back at any of my posts and you'll see I'm one of the many that are tired of being taken for a ride by Telkom. I'd like to give my business to you, but only if you prove you're better than Telkom. Take too long and I might very well give MTN / Vodacom a try once their fibre networks are installed. The providers don't matter to me. The quality of service and price do. So far, lip service is all I've seen from Neotel and that just don't cut it. Step up your game, Mr Pandey. I think the South African consumer has been forced to wait far too long already. Become the Knight and you will gain the trust of the people and revenue to double your intended R11Bn investment in the next decade.
Sincerely,
LLG.
nah i think ur mistaking.... thats the date when they prospone to november 2008
Very very posible !!
There is just no way to put this diplomatically........ I have just tooooo much experience with "corporate India". Do NOT trust!!
swim
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andey won’t say by how much Neotel will undercut Telkom in international bandwidth costs. Telkom has long been accused of profiteering on Sat-3, charging rates up to eight times the international norm. The fixed-line carrier has also come under fire for extracting monopoly rents on national long-distance fibre-optic lines.
8x ?????? 1000X more
8x ?????? 1000X more
Telkomisaloser
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As with everything in SA telecoms, IBIWISI. Not very convinced right now I must say, especially if they're recruiting from Eskom.
Don't worry that position is just "Spokesperson" its the "talk the talk" part part of the business, its the senior management that will need to "Walk the Walk". I somehow have a feeling that their heels are already wearing thin.
My concern is they only have 200 staff, I can point out at least 7 telco's further down the food-chain that have over 250 and probably 12 times the turnover. How these guys get the "work of an SNO done" with this amount of staff is a mystery. (Well, not if much work is being done)
Also think about this, the time value of money, if the SNO was launched 6 years ago and provided a 20% savings, how much money would we have all saved?? Now six years on, how many years will it now take for us to gain back those lost savings, 12?
All their employees are "spokespersons", have nothing else to do.
Don't worry that position is just "Spokesperson" its the "talk the talk" part part of the business, its the senior management that will need to "Walk the Walk". I somehow have a feeling that their heels are already wearing thin.
My concern is they only have 200 staff, I can point out at least 7 telco's further down the food-chain that have over 250 and probably 12 times the turnover. How these guys get the "work of an SNO done" with this amount of staff is a mystery. (Well, not if much work is being done)
Also think about this, the time value of money, if the SNO was launched 6 years ago and provided a 20% savings, how much money would we have all saved?? Now six years on, how many years will it now take for us to gain back those lost savings, 12?
I'm not sure how much of the network they actually run themselves, isn't most of it leased from Infraco? Still doesn't seem like much to run a national telco though. I'm not even convinced they will provide such great savings, I can just see another company that plans to "compete on service".
Yeah right, Ive heard that before, those goal posts keep shifting and as long as they keep shifting, Telkom will keep shafting
vangend said:
LOL, and they said that they were not going to compete on price, but were going to concentrate on service. SIGH
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Well, Virgin uses the Cell C network, so the prices are pretty much the same.
Vodacom are 50% owned by Telkom, do I need to say more? And MTN are trying to buy Telkom. It's a vicious circle.
hello and welcome to our show Mr pandey, neotel MD
host: so please give all of us watching / listening an update on the progress of your company on offering services to the greater public.
Pandey: well we have made significant progress (beep ********) towards offering services (beep ******) ....
Pandey: why am i hearing beeps in this interview?
host: I'm sorry but our computers must have picked up your speech as a lie incorrectly, technical, please fix this.....
host: now lets try again.. so please give us an update mr Pandey.
Pandey: well (Beep ******************************************)..............
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I am no longer going to even get upset about neotel, just waiting to see what a massive joke they will make of themselves.
host: so please give all of us watching / listening an update on the progress of your company on offering services to the greater public.
Pandey: well we have made significant progress (beep ********) towards offering services (beep ******) ....
Pandey: why am i hearing beeps in this interview?
host: I'm sorry but our computers must have picked up your speech as a lie incorrectly, technical, please fix this.....
host: now lets try again.. so please give us an update mr Pandey.
Pandey: well (Beep ******************************************)..............
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I am no longer going to even get upset about neotel, just waiting to see what a massive joke they will make of themselves.