SNO has date for eagerly awaited launch

Eskom’s network will remain state-owned and be leased to the SNO at cost plus 4%.
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Personally I think that's a better idea than selling it to them outright, otherwise they too would have been able to set artificially high prices like Telkom is doing with the current infrastructure. At least there'll be some transparency surrounding the cost of using said infrastructure.
 
Unfortunately, although competition is always a good thing, nothing has changed in the cellular industry, therefore I predict hardly anything will change in fixed line communications either. The SA consumer will continually take it up the naught, accepting bad service and horrible prices, as we have all our lives. Pity really. I am in the electronics industry, where we force our dealers to provide excellent service, which has made us top of our game for a long time now.

It just shows that there are consumers out there now that demand great service, and will do whatever it takes to support companies that provide it. Through that principle, our prices have been able to constantly drop over the last few years, even with the exchange going up recently, increase in import volume meant lower prices to the customer. I wish Telkom would think the same way!
 
PoiZoNouZ said:
Unfortunately, although competition is always a good thing, nothing has changed in the cellular industry, therefore I predict hardly anything will change in fixed line communications either. The SA consumer will continually take it up the naught, accepting bad service and horrible prices, as we have all our lives. Pity really. I am in the electronics industry, where we force our dealers to provide excellent service, which has made us top of our game for a long time now.

It just shows that there are consumers out there now that demand great service, and will do whatever it takes to support companies that provide it. Through that principle, our prices have been able to constantly drop over the last few years, even with the exchange going up recently, increase in import volume meant lower prices to the customer. I wish Telkom would think the same way!
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I will agree up to a certain extent. But you never know for sure what is going to happen. Maybe this will create another oligopoly where we will see almost no improvement. But at least now we can choose.

But personally, I would like to be more optimistic and expect that with the new entrant we will see improvements in both services and prices.
 
Origin248 said:
I will agree up to a certain extent. But you never know for sure what is going to happen. Maybe this will create another oligopoly where we will see almost no improvement. But at least now we can choose.

But personally, I would like to be more optimistic and expect that with the new entrant we will see improvements in both services and prices.
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Well they do have an md with a lot more experience in the industry than the telkom ceo.

So its official they are called SNO ? I wonder what their adverts on tv will be like
 
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I wonder if they realised thats its august already, and the 31st is 19 days away!
 
lol, 31st, that'll never happen.

They have made dates for the last 2 years, and have never come through.
 
I rate, if anything, Telkom will just put them out of business.... :p

Telkom would want all the profit for themselves ;)
 
can anyone confirm whether they will be selling international bandwidth??

and do you think Goal Technologies one month delay in offering adsl services had anything to do with the SNO slow startup?
 
xcleric42 said:
can anyone confirm whether they will be selling international bandwidth??

and do you think Goal Technologies one month delay in offering adsl services had anything to do with the SNO slow startup?
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If that is true, then I am not going to get excited about any cost reductions. I would be content if the SNO resulted in an immediate reduction of about 50%. with another 50% within a year.

SIGH
 
Nice. The SNO reducing prices by 50% immediatly and then by 50% again within a year would only make you content.

Glad to see there are no unrealistic expectations here.

If the SNO could launch with products at 20% less than my current expenditure, and by 50% (not another. total) in the next year or two, I would be pretty damn ecstatic
 
Still let us remember that we're in Africa; not one of the European powers, or the Asian tigers. Internet will be more expensive. But I would imagine that international bandwidth being the first one to go down.
 
Even no price drop would make me switch

Yes, that heading is correct. Even if the SNO charges the same as Telkom, I would still switch to them, just to get rid of the Telkom stench.
 
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