No cards on the cable

Funny isn't it...... as the biggest shareholder (38%) they cant access documents in a company that they essentially own ....

It's a circus out there
 
All the government has to do is threaten re-nationalization and then just watch the share prices fall.
 
I agree - seriously are telkom going to bite the hand that has coddled them for so long?

Gov - just take the cable - we paid for it.
 
It's taken them this long to realise all of this, at least someone is bringing out the issue, Roy sounds like the type of person we've been waiting for to take these kind of matters to heart.
 
Ray has promised things before and not delivered. Once i see action i'll be impressed
 
ic said:
just send a bunch of army okes down to Melkbosstrand & take over the landing station from Telkodemonopolies - nothing short of making that landing station a national asset will work.
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lol - they could run the pre-operation surveillance from atop of the nearby telephone poles disguised as Telkom repair men. :D
 
bwana v.8 said:
lol - they could run the pre-operation surveillance from atop of the nearby telephone poles disguised as Telkom repair men. :D
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I think i'd notice Ivy atop a pole :D

/me is reminded of King Kong
 
Telkom, which invested US$85m in Sat-3/Wasc/Safe, has previously cautioned against regulating access to the cable. It has warned that regulation could deter investment in new cable systems around the continent.
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Me thinks telkom is the biggest deterrent. Telkom top management should be fired - whoever is setting these policies, stalling, prevaricating - threatening... what kind of company is this - and is it something we really want around? Non!
:eek: :mad:
 
bwana v.8 said:
lol - they could run the pre-operation surveillance from atop of the nearby telephone poles disguised as Telkom repair men. :D
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They'll be spotted for sure. They'll try to look like they're working and everybody knows telkom repair men never really works.... Instant blown cover even before they started climbing the pole :D
 
mccrack said:
Ray has promised things before and not delivered. Once i see action i'll be impressed
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I agree, this sounds like a lot of pre-election hype. I think my sig says it all..
 
So paddie is saying that we'll have to wait till 2008 before they can do anything about Telkom's owned international cable access - fine.

Lets see ... in the meantime, issue sentech with an infrastructure license.
Link up to the cable on one of the higher points up the cable.

Oh ... too easy ... okay .. lets wait till 2008, but until then we'll moan moan moan.
Yea paddie.
I have sooo much faith in you !
bleugh
 
hrm gov should threaten pulling the plug on its 38% and investing in SNO, i'm sure the share price will drop like crazy. But better yet, combine their uhm 'personal' shares i'm sure they can make it 50% and force change in Telkom
 
"Telkom is part of an international group [of investors in the system] and it appears that it's very complicated to try to unravel this thing," Padayachie says.
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Can't believe how "cheeky" Telkom are. Who's the government here, Telkom or the "government"? I mean really, Telkom should be answering to government. Not the other way around. :confused:
 
Can't help but mention this again. But, funny how all these positive broadband changes we've been waiting for ages now are "suddenly" and actively on the table....just BEFORE elections!

ermm... "you telecoms okes vote for us and we'll get this done."

ermm... What about the last 10 years? Same story?!
 
Only now?

Padayachie says he is keen to empower the sector regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA, to take the steps necessary to regulate the cable.
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IMHO Padda is a windbag blowing pipes just like Papi. Only problem is instead of blowing the pipe they f@rt in the wind. Meaningless words with a useless attitudes and little to show since last year. We yet have to see the TELKOM promised land with the per GIG billing system, ICASSA and the DOC is quiet about the whole issue, Thus the Telkom thieves got away with it yet again.
What a confidence booster? to anything PADA or PAPI F@rt about.

My worry is; normally when they suddenly get verbal diarrhea, I hear its doing the rounds in PTA, something bad for us is brewing as was before November 2005!
 
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