Oops, we have shot ourselves in the foot

[rpm]

http://mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=629

 

[stoke]

Classic case of: We are above the law, oops, Teklom is the LAW and they will remind you every time you bypass them.

 

[Sneeky]

I saw somebody else post in this forum not to long ago that any comapny that has the ability (read as: cash/technology,etc) to provide telekoms in SA should be allowed to do so in the interest of the people. That might be a bit simplistic but it would be great.
Sitting around and waiting for a bumbling department of communications to action anything with its uselss minister at the helm, while Telkom rapes us, is just not cutting it anymore for me.

 

[AntiThesis]

Uuuunlucky.

 

[BTTB]

Stuck between a rock and a hard place

What we sit with now, is the fact that government is stuck between a rock and a hard place (i.e. we want to use this technology, but we cannot just yet, because we have to change our laws).

Yes. Yes. Yes.
Now change them please, Mr Government and add a dash of speed while you are at it.

Classic Stuff.
One can only sit back and have a good snigger to oneself about the situation.
I wonder where Ivy is sitting now. On the rock or the hard place. Under the rock perhaps?

 

[Sneeky]

Still having her snooze, she has been very very quiet lately, what do we pay her for again?

 

[dominic]

the article is incorrect insofar as it says that the Knysna Unifi project has been shut down...afaik no formal communication has been received from telkom or icasa

 

[LoneGunman]

dominic - you should make contact with the writer and advise him of that, as well as to his Editor, to request publishing of a clarification - just in case the overall intent of the article is to try present the Knysna Saga to the public as being a finished case which Telkom 'obviously' won, and Knysna was somehow 'naughty'..

 

[dominic]

dominic - you should make contact with the writer and advise him of that, as well as to his Editor, to request publishing of a clarification - just in case the overall intent of the article is to try present the Knysna Saga to the public as being a finished case which Telkom 'obviously' won, and Knysna was somehow 'naughty'..

ta - i have alerted those who need to respond....

 

[G2V]

A prime example of a journalist not doing his homework.

The Knysna project is going ahead and will go live in the next few weeks.

 

[stoke]

Where there'z smoke there'z fire ?
But yea - the article is strangely lacking in facts.

 

[ebis]

I saw somebody else post in this forum not to long ago that any comapny that has the ability (read as: cash/technology,etc) to provide telekoms in SA should be allowed to do so in the interest of the people. That might be a bit simplistic but it would be great.

I actually don't see much of a problem with that approach. If there are companies out there that can provide us with much cheaper telecoms technologies (a concept unfamiliar to Telkom), why is it that the government doesn't want to make it easier for them to open shop???

This whole thing about "managed liberalisation" is just a stupid concept that is being used by the government to act like they know what they're doing. Let me rephrase that: This whole thing about "managed liberalisation" is just a stupid concept that is being used by Poison Ivy to act like she knows what she's doing. I actually think that she's the core problem here. The nucleus, the central core of the rotten mess that our telecoms industry finds itself in.

As a whole, I think the government does want to lower telecoms prices in SA very quickly. Even the Pres has stated that. I think the real handbrake to this goal is the incompetency of that Poisoned Ivy. However, because she works for the government, I guess one can argue that the government itself is to blame.

Anyway, I can't wait for the next elections. At least we can rest certain that a new minister WILL get appointed. Surely no one else can be more incompetent than she is??? Surely not!!!

 

[mbs]

Calligari is of the same calibre as that pseudo-journo with whom I had a barney a while back, about his sour grapes article - geesh, what the hell's happened to journalistic ethics?!