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http://www.fin24.co.za/articles/default/display_article.aspx?ArticleId=1518-24_1645712
http://mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business&articleid=195000
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Cellular/2275.html
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Gaming/2245.html
DON'T GO TO TELKOM, LET MTN WIN THE BATTLE
"On Christmas day MTN received 867 SMS per second from MTN handsets and handled a total of 65,259,945 SMS on that one day. On the 1st of January 2008, 906 SMS per second were received from MTN handsets. MTN achieved an excellent success rate of up to 98% on the SMS originators."
Some very nice figures there, the only thing is that hopefully everyone had their delivery reports on during the festive season - because if you did then you, like us, would have seen that more than half of your SMS's on Christmas and New Year's day were most likely failures. So all apologies to our friends who didn't get our loving SMS's.. we've figured MTN is an acronym for "Maybe Try Now?". Y'ello Bummer.
URL
http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A503891
Ouch - looks like MTN is slicing Telkom out of the picture, the reason (as anyone will correctly guess) is cost. Even local connectivity costs a fortune, so seeing as cellular operators can build their own infrastructure, MTN is going for it and Vodacom as well.
Telkom is shooting itself in the foot around every corner and eventually there won't be much left to shoot as more business is taken away via other channels.
This is kind of like the Titanic sinking, it's just taking much longer. But it's happening.
http://www.fin24.co.za/articles/default/display_article.aspx?ArticleId=1518-24_1645712
http://mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business&articleid=195000
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Cellular/2275.html
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Gaming/2245.html
DON'T GO TO TELKOM, LET MTN WIN THE BATTLE
"On Christmas day MTN received 867 SMS per second from MTN handsets and handled a total of 65,259,945 SMS on that one day. On the 1st of January 2008, 906 SMS per second were received from MTN handsets. MTN achieved an excellent success rate of up to 98% on the SMS originators."
Some very nice figures there, the only thing is that hopefully everyone had their delivery reports on during the festive season - because if you did then you, like us, would have seen that more than half of your SMS's on Christmas and New Year's day were most likely failures. So all apologies to our friends who didn't get our loving SMS's.. we've figured MTN is an acronym for "Maybe Try Now?". Y'ello Bummer.
URL
http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A503891
Ouch - looks like MTN is slicing Telkom out of the picture, the reason (as anyone will correctly guess) is cost. Even local connectivity costs a fortune, so seeing as cellular operators can build their own infrastructure, MTN is going for it and Vodacom as well.
Telkom is shooting itself in the foot around every corner and eventually there won't be much left to shoot as more business is taken away via other channels.
This is kind of like the Titanic sinking, it's just taking much longer. But it's happening.