Neotel sets record straight about InfraCo

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Neotel further confirmed that it is planning the formal launch of its voice, data and Internet services for enterprises this year.
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By enterprises they mean not the home-user right?
 
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Sorry I have completely given up on even reading their press releases now, they seem about as professional as iBurst's accounts department...
 
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Suriah however says that these interactions and discussions have in no way hindered the progress of Neotel's network build and organisational build.

So, in other words they have no excuse for taking so long....what is their problem?:confused:
 
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I use to feel something when I read this kind of article, how slow neotel is. well now..... its just zzzzzzzzzzzz the whole way.

When and if Neotel ever wakes up I do believe they will be a major pain in the backside for every consumer who are stupid enough to sign up with them, how long does it take telkom in the worst cases to offer ADSL in remote areas? give or take 10 months. how long does it take for neotel to offer services in a massive urban metropolitan city? well approaching one and a half years............. :eek:

I don't like telkom as they are sucking us dry :mad: but at least whilest being sucked dry we get service at a ultra poor quality, when and if neotel start offering service :confused: it might and i stress MIGHT not suck us as dry but the sheer delay will have already sent me to my grave.

Good job neotel, you are loosing customers before even starting to offer products, wonderful way to do business.
 
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Guys strategically it wouldn't make sense for Neotel to reveal their consumer service release dates. I don't expect to hear anything honest about it in the media as it is all speculation. That means we might get it tomorrow, or we might get it in 5 years or even 10. Either way, I am not too optimistic it will change much in this country as government isn't open about competition. If they were serious the landscape would have changed significantly by now. It hasn't. Remember not to judge our telecoms by what is happening here anyway. You HAVE to judge it by what is happening in any country you want our country's telecoms environment to reflect. In my mind it is the USA. Comparing the two means we are so far behind it just isn't funny.

Yes we are getting voip and all kinds of other goodies, but getting excited about that is like getting excited about a vanilla birthday cake this year instead of chocolate. If the cake isn't significantly bigger at the same price as last years chocolate cake then it is just another cake. So what!??!

Yes there are savings, but those savings are dictated by Telkom in the "lets be nice" department. This is NOT an open market people! We're trapped.
 
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antowan said:
Guys strategically it wouldn't make sense for Neotel to reveal their consumer service release dates. I don't expect to hear anything honest about it in the media as it is all speculation. That means we might get it tomorrow, or we might get it in 5 years or even 10. Either way, I am not too optimistic it will change much in this country as government isn't open about competition. If they were serious the landscape would have changed significantly by now. It hasn't. Remember not to judge our telecoms by what is happening here anyway. You HAVE to judge it by what is happening in any country you want our country's telecoms environment to reflect. In my mind it is the USA. Comparing the two means we are so far behind it just isn't funny.

Yes we are getting voip and all kinds of other goodies, but getting excited about that is like getting excited about a vanilla birthday cake this year instead of chocolate. If the cake isn't significantly bigger at the same price as last years chocolate cake then it is just another cake. So what!??!

Yes there are savings, but those savings are dictated by Telkom in the "lets be nice" department. This is NOT an open market people! We're trapped.[/
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That seems to be the problem here... we are always trapped :mad:
 
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I think they're trying to keep people happy but have perhaps already over-promised on delivery.

Recall the MD (Ajay Pandey) announcing the CDMA launch dates, me-thinks

--- Ordinary South Africans should see services from second national operator Neotel within “the next few weeks”. This is according to Neotel MD Ajay Pandey. Speaking to Alec Hogg on CNBC Africa’s Power Lunch with Moneyweb, Pandey said that the company remains “on track with what we want to do”.

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That was on june 12... since then July, August, September and in a week or so it's four months ago.

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The company is currently trialing their CDMA based Internet and voice offerings for the residential and SMME market, and while there is no official launch date, Neotel said that there will be commercial customers on its network before year end.
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It just gets worse and worse.

So does "commercial" mean residential or corporate?

I very much doubt we will see any residential services from Neotel in 2007.
 
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I don't get it - how can NeeTel now claim to not be largely held back & prevented from providing consumers with services by the whole guavamental Infraco mess, surely NeeTel actually needs a national fibre network to transmit data efficiently and in a cost-effective manner between points A and Z across the country, or does NeeTel intend to relay national calls and data e.g. between Jhb and CT via satellite...:rolleyes:
 
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Kawak said:
I use to feel something when I read this kind of article, how slow neotel is. well now..... its just zzzzzzzzzzzz the whole way.

When and if Neotel ever wakes up I do believe they will be a major pain in the backside for every consumer who are stupid enough to sign up with them, how long does it take telkom in the worst cases to offer ADSL in remote areas? give or take 10 months. how long does it take for neotel to offer services in a massive urban metropolitan city? well approaching one and a half years............. :eek:

I don't like telkom as they are sucking us dry :mad: but at least whilest being sucked dry we get service at a ultra poor quality, when and if neotel start offering service :confused: it might and i stress MIGHT not suck us as dry but the sheer delay will have already sent me to my grave.

Good job neotel, you are loosing customers before even starting to offer products, wonderful way to do business.
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10 months in remote areas? How about 14 months (and still counting) in Germiston? :mad: By the time I get a real internet connection, I will be too old to see the screen.
 
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