On a losing frequency

[rpm]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Telecoms/1394.html

 

[Johnny_Q]

"Despite the ongoing losses, communications department director general Lyndall Shope-Mafole says Sentech is well-run, self-sustainable and meeting its service delivery mandate"

I want some of what she is smoking


"Says Shope-Mafole: “Sentech is not like MTN or Telkom; it’s not profit driven. Its mandate includes penetrating underserviced communities that may not be commercially viable. So clearly, it’s not competing with the private sector.”

Yes I agree no need to make profit,govt officials make enuff in bribes

 

[Tns]

a good money waster hey!

 

[The_Unbeliever]

@ "Despite the ongoing losses, communications department director general Lyndall Shope-Mafole says Sentech is well-run, self-sustainable and meeting its service delivery mandate"

It does not make sound business sense...

 

[bekdik]

Why should government worry about the expenditure? The have a bottomless pit from which to obtain funding, they do not hold themselves accountable in any way, they silence those who question their competency.

Just like the Zim they wish to become.

 

[biltonguy]

Why would gov want to sell sentech? Its perfect for stuffing with money, then getting milked by gov's struggle buddy/BEE companies via contracts, tenders, etc.

 

[KampfGherkin]

Oh, man InfraCo is gonna be so awesome!

...Oh. Wait.

 

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Says Shope-Mafole: “Sentech is not like MTN or Telkom; it’s not profit driven. Its mandate includes penetrating underserviced communities that may not be commercially viable. So clearly, it’s not competing with the private sector.”

Stalin-Mafole speak with forked tongue again.

While one can argue that Telkodemonopolies has rolled out so few wired fixed lines, in both poor and well off areas, and consequently Telkodemonopolies has under-service most parts of South Africa, Telkodemonopolies' licence conditions and the [now repealed] Telecommunications Act of 1996 required that Telkodemonopolies must rollout services in under-serviced areas, i.e. millions of lines needed to be connected up, Telkodemonopolies did rollout some 2+ million lines and subsequently cutoff those customers, and the Department of Communistications including Poison Ivy & Stalin-Mafole allowed this to happen despite being a major 38% shareholder in Telkodemonopolies.

Why is it that Sentech must implement what Telkodemonopolies was supposed to implement in exchange for Telkodemonopolies' continued de facto fixed line monopoly, why don't Poison Ivy & Stalin-Mafole use their 60% controlling vote within Telkodemonopolies' board of directors, and simply force Telkodemonopolies to rollout services to under-serviced areas??? - is it maybe that Telkodemonopolies' profits might reduce and there will be less money to keep the guavamental gravytrain going...

Another issue with Stalin-Mafole's statement above - if Sentech's mandate was to rollout MyWireless to under-serviced areas, and not compete commercially with Telkodemonopolies and Vodacom and MTN and iBurst, then why is it that Sentech was allowed to concentrate on rolling out MyWireless to areas where private sector broadband network operators were also offering services? - surely Sentech would have been required by the Department of Communistications to concentrate entirely on rolling out MyWireless to the former township areas...

Sentech did however provide MyWireless to an unknown number of schools, which is obviously a good thing and partial fulfilment of the admirable socialistic goals [social responsibility] that Stalin-Mafole claimed to be Sentech's only mandate, unfortunately reality is quite different to the lies spewed forth from the Department of Communistications.