SNO has date for eagerly awaited launch

[native]

BTW what is the SNO website?

 

[Angstrom]

BTW what is the SNO website?

http://www.snotelecom.co.za is the one I've looked at occasionally.

 

[MrSmith]

Yeah great they can not even update it it still says Wholesale launching Q2 2006. We are so Fcuked.

 

[bwana]

Why am I unimpressed?

 

[claytonza]

Man I've just looked at http://www.snotelecom.co.za and all I can say is it leaves me hugely worried! If thats the best effort they can do for pulling of a multi-million rand company website there is no hope.

Since they haven't put any effort into their internet presence it makes me wonder do they care about the internet and if not will they make an effort to give better prices for bandwidth?

 

[Tns]

so their launch is really immanent! soon even!
The launch does depend on if you using Telkom maths or Chinese maths

 

[Pilgrim]

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!

You say nothing has changed in the cellular industry? Remember that a huge chunk of your cell call charge goes to good old Telscum. The service provided by the three networks (four now, I suppose) is getting better and better all the time. If we only had one cell provider I feel we would still only have voice and SMS. That would be all. With competition we have 3G, internet, TV and video call on our phones. That is pretty much on the ball when it comes to international. With Telscum, we pay for local calls, get ripped off for long distance and don't even want to think about international call costs. And in the broadband arena we have an awesome 384kbps to 1mbps ADSL (capped at 3 gigs, mostly) for a rip-off price.

Do you really believe that competition has no effect?

I cannot wait for Telscum to crash and burn…

 

[bwana]

You say nothing has changed in the cellular industry? Remember that a huge chunk of your cell call charge goes to good old Telscum.

Actually most of it goes to the mobile operator it would seem

Telkom (TKG) pays cell operators - including its 50% subsidiary Vodacom - R1.40 per minute to 'terminate' calls (to link fixed-line with mobile and vice versa) while the trio pays the fixed-line monopoly a mere 29c, LINK Centre at Wits said in a review report.

The mobile operators are no better than telkom IMO despite so called "competition".