Neotel sets record straight about InfraCo

[bekdik]

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.

As soon as that?

 

[cj1]

We are all in agreement that Neotel have indicated before that Telkoms prices are too high. Right. Here is a strategy; why dont they anounce their release dates and Telkom will respond immediately by dropping their prices. Neotel would have help lowering prices without even doing anything.

 

[Gatecrasher]

We are all in agreement that Neotel have indicated before that Telkoms prices are too high. Right. Here is a strategy; why dont they anounce their release dates and Telkom will respond immediately by dropping their prices. Neotel would have help lowering prices without even doing anything.

A strategy for whom? Lower prices are not in Neotel's interest. Far from it. They are a business, not a charity.

 

[ic]

We are all in agreement that Neotel have indicated before that Telkoms prices are too high. Right. Here is a strategy; why dont they anounce their release dates and Telkom will respond immediately by dropping their prices. Neotel would have help lowering prices without even doing anything.

NeeTel has been announcing new 'release dates' - every few months there is a new release date, and so far Telkodemonopolies has not responded with lower prices every few months.

 

[eltherza]

Sorry I have completely given up on even reading their press releases now, they seem about as professional as iBurst's accounts department...

that was harsh... ish

 

[bekdik]

that was harsh... ish

Yeah, Iburst isn't that bad.

 

[Alchemist]

By the time Neotel actually launch, Jacob Zuma will be president, and most of Neotel's potential customers will have already immigrated.

Neotel may as well throw in the towel now, because they sure as hell ain't gonna succeed with their current strategy.

 

[emmanuel]

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.

It is funny.

 

[ernstn]

Who is NEOTEL?

There is only one fixed line operator in RSA and that is Telkom. The second national operator seems to have absconded on taking up it's license and maybe it should be re awarded to someone actually willing to do something.

 

[ic]

Who is NEOTEL?

There is only one fixed line operator in RSA and that is Telkom. The second national operator seems to have absconded on taking up it's license and maybe it should be re awarded to someone actually willing to do something.

No, recycling NeeTel's licence would only result in more of the same - what should be done, is more wired fixed line [think fibre optic] entities should be licensed to compete with one another and a 'let the strongest survive' ideology should be applied to the telecoms market, this would also require the napalming of Poison Ivy's arse as well as all her plants.

 

[AirWolf]

Can Neotel even be called the second fixed line operator yet?

 

[ernstn]

No, recycling NeeTel's licence would only result in more of the same - what should be done, is more wired fixed line [think fibre optic] entities should be licensed to compete with one another and a 'let the strongest survive' ideology should be applied to the telecoms market, this would also require the napalming of Poison Ivy's arse as well as all her plants.

I agree one hundred percent. Since they have not taken up the licence in a fair time, others should be allowed to operate. I am particularly in favour of smaller regional operators or niche operators, who thus would not require a massive startup cost and, provided they give proper service, would be able to eventually grow into a national operator.

 

[ic]

I agree one hundred percent. Since they have not taken up the licence in a fair time, others should be allowed to operate. I am particularly in favour of smaller regional operators or niche operators, who thus would not require a massive startup cost and, provided they give proper service, would be able to eventually grow into a national operator.

I'm not in favour of "regional operators" that resemble mini-Telkodemonopolieses as I suspect what will happen is that such entities would create inefficient regional monopolies, and much like the USAL operators would be doomed to fail.

I do however support the idea of smaller VANS operators being licensed to self-provision their own network infrastructure [e.g. fibre optic] to provide data services interconnecting with other operators or just simply connecting up a corporate customer's several branch offices and managing the link(s) for that corporate customer, and over time small VANS can grow if they choose to do so.