SA ADSL over-priced, lacks performance?

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By Ewan Sutherland, Executive Director of the International Telecommunications Users Group (INTUG).

http://cooltech.iafrica.com/press/179703.htm

Telkom should offer this man a job.

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I think i'm gonna cry.. but hey, that's what dreams are made of if you live in Souf Efrieka... if we have decent broadband in this country we will be even more of a destination for overseas ppl.. if we had cheap voice and data options, just imagine where we'd be... as my signature says.. []

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Just imagine where SA would be now if it weren't for Telkom

 

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The model that telkom has is so similar to Telekom Malaysia and many places elsewhere in the world. A slow transformation orchestrated by the respective governments to maximise their profits in the short term, before the whole thing collapses. I have been reading similar sites overseas and whats happening here is so similar to other places. Their are websites with people ranting like us. Its almost uncanny.

Places like South Korea decided to be different and to make it their sole purpose to broaden their horizons as fast and as cheaply as possible. They have now 10 000 000 (ten Million) people using ADSL.
Why cant the ANC force their hand and do a similar thing. It will enhance our image overseas and form part of a major kickstart to Mbeki's Nepad. I can only see a well planned/quick transformation helping all in South Africa and our neighbours. Why cant these people just see the light. The are so slow to do anything.
Their shortsitedness is money for today, but what about tomorrow. We have the infrastructure that other African Countries could only wish for. But the management is top heavy like so many other SA Companies. And these guys earn big bucks too. In the real world I doubt if these people would last five minutes with their business ethics. But they are protected by the state. The state has the power to kick ass if they wanted to. It would be to everyones benefit.
If this beast of telkom isnt squashed soon, they would of created for themselves such a bad image, I wonder if the ANC would dare to open Telkom to market forces. They would be too scared as they would have a few more thousand people standing in the Unemployment line. Telkom will become its own worst enemy.

Another 2c.


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