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Question of the Day: What's the most interesting small town you've visited in South Africa?
mancombseepgood
Executive Member
Looming - imminent...
Consolidation required to keep up the margins and turnover at the same time. Esp. with the `looming' drought. I'm inclined to think that Africa will never see cheap broadband with the economic situation right now... at least not in our lifetime.
Consolidation required to keep up the margins and turnover at the same time. Esp. with the `looming' drought. I'm inclined to think that Africa will never see cheap broadband with the economic situation right now... at least not in our lifetime.
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I am inclined to agree with you - read my post:
"Telecoms changes to benefit consumers"
If only altech was buying iburst, bcoz i think their accounts departments could merge without any major hiccups 
. i really dont care who buys whom, as long as someone can start a broadband price war out there...
. i really dont care who buys whom, as long as someone can start a broadband price war out there...Turiko
Banned
This is being done the same way as the banks, only 4 of them and they all arse-rape and suck and are underhanded and greedy.
Yet again Joe Public in SA loses....
Shake&Bake
Party Liaison
I don't really care for all of these local players.
They're all doing their level best to slow down the pricing and are still looking at avenues to screw us over IMO.
Get a "3", AT&T, BT or Freeola in here to come and show these local buggers how turn a market over on its head.
Aquisitions are being made by bigger companies to eliminate competition and then incorporate the competition into their brand.
This does not help the consumer.
Telscum buys into VC, VC buys into iBurst, Altech wanting to buy Mweb.
Yes these are SOP's in business, but it only makes shareholders more profitable as there are more earnings accrued.
There's no savings (reasonable savings) being passed onto consumers as yet.
So IMO the big 4: Telscum, VC, MTN and Neotel are only really catering, (at this time) for enterprise business.
All the fibre that has been rolled out in the last year has not made it to one of our doors.
However, corporates have them, make a saving and we're doing business as usual with them.
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They're all doing their level best to slow down the pricing and are still looking at avenues to screw us over IMO.
Get a "3", AT&T, BT or Freeola in here to come and show these local buggers how turn a market over on its head.
Aquisitions are being made by bigger companies to eliminate competition and then incorporate the competition into their brand.
This does not help the consumer.
Telscum buys into VC, VC buys into iBurst, Altech wanting to buy Mweb.
Yes these are SOP's in business, but it only makes shareholders more profitable as there are more earnings accrued.
There's no savings (reasonable savings) being passed onto consumers as yet.
So IMO the big 4: Telscum, VC, MTN and Neotel are only really catering, (at this time) for enterprise business.
All the fibre that has been rolled out in the last year has not made it to one of our doors.
However, corporates have them, make a saving and we're doing business as usual with them.
....
mancombseepgood
Executive Member
I am inclined to agree with that post:
This is still a load of BS!!! Lip-service, lip-service and more lip-service. The South African consumer is getting tired of promises of infrastructure and increased bandwidth and speed - we have been hearing this for years now, but nothing ever actually happens.
As for Neotel - what a waste of time and effort. All the big buildup for nothing. All Neotel are, is another Wireless internet provider. Telkom still has not competition in the DSL game and that is what we were all wanting for!!! I don't want a wireless service - if I wanted that, I could have done it years ago - there was no need to wait for Neotel and all it's (Blended) Bundled Bull****. All I (and many others I know), want, it low cost, fast DSL, without a data cap (like every other country in the world). Is that too much to ask? Until some telkoms provider comes up with that, I won't budge from Telkom (as much as I hate them), and nor will a lot of others.
