New Neotel CEO in charge

Good luck, you are really going to have to go all out to repair the damage done by your predecessor.
 
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Joshi has now taken over from former CEO Ajay Pandey who will move to back to Tata Communications after completing five years with Neotel.
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The link for Ajay Pandey is 404! :)
 
If he can turn them around he must really be good.

People will always see Neotel as the failed second "FIXED" line operator
until they "FIX" it :p
He might be lucky that some big corporates Telkom contracts run out in his term and then he can take the credit for it if they can sign them on.
 
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In January this year Neotel announced that it has appointed Sunil Joshi as the company's new Managing Director and CEO, with effect from 1 April 2011.
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Link to Sunil Joshi is also 404.
 
His predecessor got his ample behind kicked badly. His strategy was useless to all of us.
 
I hope Sunil Joshi has excellent embalming skills.
 
zamicro said:
Start rolling out fixed lines asap!
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Well, looks like Neotel are trying to make a go of it ...

http://www.techcentral.co.za/telkom-neotel-to-do-battle-over-local-loop/22336

Telkom's argument against Neotel's request is pretty feeble ...

Telkom has long argued with Icasa about the classification of the local loop as an essential facility and pushed the same argument in its responses to Neotel. Its understanding of the legal definition of an essential facility is a facility that “cannot feasibly be substituted”. However, Telkom maintains that the mobile operators have created a substitute, which it calls the “wireless local loop”.
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Not quite.

Even using the latest wireless technology (LTE in std 3 sector configuration), a single distribution point (tower) can only aggregate ~ 350Mbps of real-world throughput. This will probably be shared by up to a few 100 customers.

Using 10 year old DSL technology like ADSL2+, the aggregation of less than 30 customers (assuming avg throughput of 12Mbps, half theoretical) has the potential to saturate the same 350 Mbps.

Modern wireless technology is still an order of magnitude less capable than out dated copper from a throughput perspective. Taking into account the media rich requirements for future Internet access the two solutions are worlds apart.

So Telkom, no one's arguing there isn’t a substitute ... the point is there isn’t a (economically feasible) substitute with the same capability.
 
NeoTel only has themselves to blame for not making much of a dent in the market. They chose not to compete with Telkom and are now reaping the rewards. Mr Sunil Joshi clearly has his work cut out for him, hopefully he is a bit more aggressive and not scared of a fight.
 
Telkom has long argued with Icasa about the classification of the local loop as an essential facility and pushed the same argument in its responses to Neotel. Its understanding of the legal definition of an essential facility is a facility that “cannot feasibly be substituted”. However, Telkom maintains that the mobile operators have created a substitute, which it calls the “wireless local loop”.
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They are indeed testing their luck, very sneaky. Trying to open they way forward for Heita I see :wtf:
while keeping Neotel of the copper as long as possible...

Quoting figures released by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Pienaar says mobile penetration in Africa is the lowest worldwide at 41%, and that Africa still lags behind when it comes to fixed (wired) broadband.
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Oh look. Wonder why South Africa isn`t much different :whistle:
 
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