SAT3 closer to becoming an essential facility

Good news.

Think there'll be a backlash from Ivy and Telkom :( as !casa doesn't seem to have the balls to challenge them...
 
Ok so it opens up SAT3 to competition, but how does that affect me, joe average, at the end of the month when I get my ADSL bill or my miniscule bandwith cap?
 
ShaunSA said:
Care to bet on Ivy and the DoC delaying this? :(
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well no but remember that its was her doughnuttiness that made a policy direction requiring ICASA to urgently declare sat3 and related facilities as being essential (around 19 september last year iirc)

@ gru - as hard as it may be to believe as you lie in your bed....we will see a massive drop nin international from around mid-2009....maybe stay in bed 'til then
 
dominic said:
@ gru - as hard as it may be to believe as you lie in your bed....we will see a massive drop nin international from around mid-2009....maybe stay in bed 'til then
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Now would that be a massive drop in price or availability of bandwith? :D
My plan was to stay in bed till 2010 but the SU buggered that when she got me up to make the bed...
 
As the saying goes: The devil lies in the details.

The regulations also call for the company in control of the essential facility to apply the same conditions and provide access to the same conditions and of the same quality as it provides itself or its subsidiaries.
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This is where I see the good intention being twisted. Telkom can easily provide sub-standard access to the competition and merely claim "It's the same access we give ourselves" without ever having to prove that claim. How many years is ICASA still waiting for Telkom to provide details of it's ADSL costs / CAMS / whatever?

To top it off, there's no independent audit to disprove whatever information Telkom gives is really accurate and our Regulator is too understaffed and crippled by the DoC to prevent this from happening.

It's the way modern SA business is conducted - fool the public into believing you're helping them while doing everything you can behind the scenes to rip them off as they'll never know :sick: Profits, afterall, must be protected.
 
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To me it all looks carefully choreographed to move at the same pace that TELKOM is able to re-invent itself, no faster.
The catch 22, every time that TELKOM looses out on new deals or mergers that would potentially offer alternative (than traditional) sources of revenue, there will be delays in the overall liberalization process
 
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I pay R1300 for 384k Uncapped (telkom fees included). If anything, its only become about R100 cheaper in the last 2 - 3 years - is this fantastic news going to drop it ALOT more... say another R20? Because i seriously doubt i'll see massive savings beyond R20 in the next 3 years! (if that) - So... Connect all the fiber they want, just bring the price down(by more than half of what i pay now), make it a lot faster and give us uncapped internet!
 
It is further made clear that the person in charge of access to an essential facility may not withdraw or impair the nature of the access once such access has been granted.
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Then it should be equally clear that this person cannot be affiliated with the incumbent provider, Government or the NEPAD e-Africa Commission.
If one assumes that the appointment will be influenced by the minister of constipations, like ICASA, then this person must answer to the portfolio committee at regular intervals, accompanied by the panel appointed by the minister that appointed him/her, until LLU is completed.

Any company which does not comply with the regulations can be fined up to
10 % of its annual turnover over the period within which the contravention continues.
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ICASA has to act on reports of non-compliance for this to be meaningful.
Where does the income from the fine go?
 
so what does that mean? lower prices ? or is this just all more talk
 
probably like the bread debarcle, thy get finded they increase the prices
 
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