SA telecoms pricing

You do not need a study to tell you this - do something thats what important.
Another time wasted exercise. These studies have been done before, just another re-hash aagghh
 
South African Internet tariffs were found to be consistently high and uncapped broadband plans in South Africa were not commonplace. The level of South African Internet access is relatively low and there is slower growth than in the other countries.
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1+1=2
 
the article states what we all already know.
 
Can't really say I expected anything else. It's because of our "unique" geographic location ofcourse. Oh well, at least the DoC earned some good cash doing a report about something everyone already knew about.
 
So why dont govt do what mauritius did? Mauritius version of ICASA did a bit of checking on the cost of provisioning data over SAT3 and then forced a 50% odd reduction in the tarriff charged for using SAT3. (please note I am working of a very hazy memory of an article I read here so some numbers may be wrong)

SAT3 has paid for itself over and over again. Also the investment in SAT3 was made using taxpayer money and not a telkom investment, so merely turn around and put a cap on the price that can be charged for access on SAT3.

That would be flippen awesome. Cap telkom like they cap us.
 
Is it just me or do the data bundle prices make no sense?

Are they comparing the SA low cap bundles to uncapped in Chile, Korea, Brazil and Malaysia, since 1GB and 10GB cost the same in those countries?
 
Yes I'm sure the committee members were paid well to dig up rather basic information that could have been found by a 16 year old sitting in front of his rich friend's PC.

So does this mean that the DoC, ICASA, and Telkom will all get the boot? ... Somehow I fail to see why a study of common knowledge was necessary.
 
I wonder if I even care anymore. Best I can hope for now is less international latency and faster download speeds.

I hope October brings good news like some people predict. Other wise /wrist. I know not everyone in SA has my problem, but I would like to, for instance, make use of Xbox LIVE's feature which is downloading full games to the console (7gig or so) and not have to sell my house.

I can not understand how you pay per MB. I mean... does it cost Telkom to deliver per MB? Don't they just have lines that are already in place and we can just use them for a set fee per month?

Can someone please explain to me how it costs Telkom more to give me a 10MB file as opposed to a 10KB file?
 
Dah!

And even after their self congratulation on finding this hidden gem of information, it won't make a $hit of difference.

Now we wait for the next study to justify the high costs..... government investment in the profiteering companies.

Did anyone get whose family members did the study or how much it cost?
 
rpm said:
Hi Dominic

I could not get hold of the report itself, but did receive a summary of results. Let me know if you have it or want it.
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thanks rpm - with the DoC i am not inclined to trust their summary of results :) - let us both try and get the full document
 
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