Solidarity: Telkom CEO's resignation a 'calamity'

The only CEO that would be able to run Telkom without government interference, is Jacob Zuma.....mind you, it needs to be a CEO with a clear vision of what needs to be done to rescue Telkom, so Zuma might not be the right man. ;)
 
kingrob said:
The only CEO that would be able to run Telkom without government interference, is Jacob Zuma.....mind you, it needs to be a CEO with a clear vision of what needs to be done to rescue Telkom, so Zuma might not be the right man. ;)
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Are you mad?
 
It's no surprise he's leaving Telkom.

It came straight from the horses mouth (Zuma) that the government do not want white people in charge of businesses.

Telkom and many other businesses will plummet until the government let go of the race gripe.
 
I personally wouldn't mind seeing that steaming pile of horse #$@! get driven into the ground, the number of days (and sometimes nights) of living hell it has put me through... With Staff who couldn't give a continental, over charging us for bandwidth, fixed lines and anything else they could lay their grubby hands on. The sinking **** ship that is telkom will get a **** you salute when they finally sink into obscurity.
 
uduwar said:
I personally wouldn't mind seeing that steaming pile of horse #$@! get driven into the ground, the number of days (and sometimes nights) of living hell it has put me through... With Staff who couldn't give a continental, over charging us for bandwidth, fixed lines and anything else they could lay their grubby hands on. The sinking **** ship that is telkom will get a **** you salute when they finally sink into obscurity.
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+1
 
I personally wouldn't mind seeing that steaming pile of horse #$@! get driven into the ground, the number of days (and sometimes nights) of living hell it has put me through... With Staff who couldn't give a continental, over charging us for bandwidth, fixed lines and anything else they could lay their grubby hands on. The sinking **** ship that is telkom will get a **** you salute when they finally sink into obscurity.
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Yes but who will bail them out?
The Taxpayer most likely.
 
What many people fail to realise is that we actually need a fully functioning, efficient Telkom.

While pricing and products are an issue, we really need them to maintain and continuously upgrade their network in order for broadband to thrive in South Africa.

No Telkom = no broadband, that's how simple it is.
 
uduwar said:
I personally wouldn't mind seeing that steaming pile of horse #$@! get driven into the ground, the number of days (and sometimes nights) of living hell it has put me through... With Staff who couldn't give a continental, over charging us for bandwidth, fixed lines and anything else they could lay their grubby hands on. The sinking **** ship that is telkom will get a **** you salute when they finally sink into obscurity.
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+1
And before they close the curtain, please,please could they hand over the keys for the "last mile" to a competent non-goverment entity.
 
ErEkTiLe_DySfUnKsHuN said:
What many people fail to realise is that we actually need a fully functioning, efficient Telkom.

While pricing and products are an issue, we really need them to maintain and continuously upgrade their network in order for broadband to thrive in South Africa.

No Telkom = no broadband, that's how simple it is.
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Actually telkom will probably be taken down by wireless providers. There is mountains of money going into researching speed and therefore capacity increases. When we do reach the real 4G technology 100Mb on the go and 1Gb stationary, the packages will have to adapt to the massive influx of capacity.

Don't be surprised if we see 50GB caps on wireless for R500 in 5-8 years.

As for business there is already many options available to them. If Neotel had to trench fibre to their base stations and the Wimax Last mile to us they would give Telkom a huge hiding.
 
Wireless will not be able to compete with a decent fixed line offering in terms of latency and uptime...

Neotels core network for their consumers is a mess, they would need to re-engineer that before they could even think of giving Telkom even a sniff of a hiding.
 
Shayd said:
Actually telkom will probably be taken down by wireless providers. There is mountains of money going into researching speed and therefore capacity increases. When we do reach the real 4G technology 100Mb on the go and 1Gb stationary, the packages will have to adapt to the massive influx of capacity.

Don't be surprised if we see 50GB caps on wireless for R500 in 5-8 years.

As for business there is already many options available to them. If Neotel had to trench fibre to their base stations and the Wimax Last mile to us they would give Telkom a huge hiding.
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You are focussing on the last mile network. Forget about the local loop, or last mile, for a while...

Telkom's most valuable asset is their backbone fibre network. It will take any competitors a few years to match it.

Without this backbone network none of the other operators will be able to provide universal services in South Africa. It will be a case of the other operators cherry-picking certain areas that are financially viable and ignoring the rest.

The result is that most residential areas in SA will be without service - including wireless services as Telkom provides the backhaul for the tower sites. None of the operators have the capacity to self-provide to all the current base stations, so how would they ever self-provide any additional sites?
 
MickeyD said:
You are focussing on the last mile network. Forget about the local loop, or last mile, for a while...

Telkom's most valuable asset is their backbone fibre network. It will take any competitors a few years to match it.

Without this backbone network none of the other operators will be able to provide universal services in South Africa. It will be a case of the other operators cherry-picking certain areas that are financially viable and ignoring the rest.

The result is that most residential areas in SA will be without service - including wireless services as Telkom provides the backhaul for the tower sites. None of the operators have the capacity to self-provide to all the current base stations, so how would they ever self-provide any additional sites?
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All the other service providers have been digging for at least the last 5 years or so it's only a matter of time before they are right up there with Telkom. With Mweb's forced free peering I suspect Telkom also lost a lot of revenue in transit costs. So it seems the only real money maker that will keep on growing is the last mile. Take that away and Telkom has nothing.

Even if Telkom gets a focussed and driven Ceo he'll probably just quit after a couple of months because of all the red tape, culture and unions just to name a few.
 
Most cellular providers are rolling out fiber to their base stations to support the higher speed requirements of new wireless technologies. I am talking of a slow death of telkom. By then the other operators will have full fiber networks.

Plus we have dark fiber africa and others building national fiber networks.

Without telkom we will be fine. Maybe not right now but soon.

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TheGuy said:
All the other service providers have been digging for at least the last 5 years or so it's only a matter of time before they are right up there with Telkom. With Mweb's forced free peering I suspect Telkom also lost a lot of revenue in transit costs. So it seems the only real money maker that will keep on growing is the last mile. Take that away and Telkom has nothing.

Even if Telkom gets a focussed and driven Ceo he'll probably just quit after a couple of months because of all the red tape, culture and unions just to name a few.
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The other operators have only self-provided in the main cities, and then also only in certain suburbs. They piggyback on Telkom's network everywhere else.
 
Telkom never will go down, as long there are ADSL users.

With ICASA, we will never get ADSL alternative (with free choice of data provider, like Telkom).
 
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