Paying through the nose

What? Icasa not making ends meet anymore with their telkom bribes?

And where do they suppose Telkom will [-]steal[/-] get the money from in the end?
I guess I better steel myself for a substantial increase in my phonebill in the near future..
 
Tux said:
What? Icasa not making ends meet anymore with their telkom bribes?

And where do they suppose Telkom will [-]steal[/-] get the money from in the end?
I guess I better steel myself for a substantial increase in my phonebill in the near future..
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Remember, these fees are applicable to everyone, not just Telkom. So MTN, Vodacom, etc. will see a similar increase in fees.
 
vodacom3g said:
Remember, these fees are applicable to everyone, not just Telkom. So MTN, Vodacom, etc. will see a similar increase in fees.
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Geez... Aren't you just the regular little ray of sunshine around here... :mad: :(


:D
 
ICASA's "operating expenses are projected to increase by 24%/year over the next five years.” It says expenses are expected to rise 8%/year thereafter" justifies an immediate increase of 2400%

Foul language can't cover this crap, a bat and some rope would be better. I hope they don't pull this faeces off.
 
What are they spending their money on?

All phones sold in the country are ICASA approved, so they probably get a cut from that also to "approve" the phone as "safe to sell" and "compatible" with the local infrastructure.
 
this is bollocks..ICASA should just roll over and die...thank you biatches for doing everything in your might to keep us in the stone ages
 
I think it is time for me to open up a bakery or something. Anything that has zero IT requirements. That way I could save a fortune on internet bills alone and that could be used to offset the whopper of an increase I suspect is coming this year.

Can anyone here say "R100 per GB"
 
friedpiggy said:
I think it is time for me to open up a bakery or something. Anything that has zero IT requirements. That way I could save a fortune on internet bills alone and that could be used to offset the whopper of an increase I suspect is coming this year.
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Your only IT will be the computers required to store your recipes, transactions and the such... :D

This bodes no good to the consumer... :(
 
I cannot believe I'm saying this, but ... Teklom, don't let them get away with this carp.
Fight them teklom, fight them!

Besides, an organisation that increases it's operating cost by 24% year on year should be phased out as quickly as possible.

Once again ... do we need ICASA?
 
Tux said:
Geez... Aren't you just the regular little ray of sunshine around here... :mad: :(
:D
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:D

I've had the distinct displease in the past to be a victim of turn-over based rent.

And it's crazy, you become a victim of your own success, having to pay out more and more money to people who had no involvement in your growth but who wants to 'share' in your profit. :mad:

Parasitic at best.
 
Obviously the ICASA piggies aren't getting enough trough space. This is beyond disgusting.

It's amazing how government bodies find ever newer ways to kill the economy.
 
Telkom argues that not only does the conversion discriminate against it, the regulations are not in keeping with international best practice that benchmarks licence fees at 1% or less of gross revenue.
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Is it best pactise that telecoms cost the rest of the world a 1/3 of the customers income on avg?

VERY FUNNY:D
 
This is excellent news for BIC and the Post Office. Surely they will see a huge increase in pens and snail-mail since that will become, once again, the prefered communication medium.
 
But Icasa is not changing the formula without reason. It defends itself in the draft regulations, saying: “The authority’s operating expenses are projected to increase by 24%/year over the next five years, because we have been sleeping on the job for the last 5 years, and realize that we might have to wake up and do a bit of work.” It says expenses are expected to rise 8%/year thereafter, just in case they fall asleep again.
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There, I fixed it for them.
 
But Icasa is not changing the formula without reason. It defends itself in the draft regulations, saying: “The authority’s operating expenses are projected to increase by 24%/year over the next five years.” It says expenses are expected to rise 8%/year thereafter.
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which would be fascinating if the setting of the fees had anything to do with ICASA's costs in regulating the sector [2008: appro R250 million] BUT the fees they are proposing would result in an over-recovery of about 2.5billion...

so it is a TAX from government on the communications sector from which we understand that government feels it can extract more value from licensees without giving a damn about the fact that it is actually consumers who will be paying
 
Hmmm, ICASA will probably end up implementing a 1% fee, and everyone will sigh with relief.

It is rather like when I go shopping with my daughter and she starts eyeing a R3000 dress. I'm then relieved, almost grateful when she finally opts for a R1000 dress. But if she had gone for the R1000 dress in the first place, I would have been very unhappy. Its psychology, and my daughter is an expert practitioner. Maybe ICASA is too.
 
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