Standing Guard

It's going to be a beautiful day in South Africa when Telkom Media realizes that nobody is going to pay such exorbitant prices for a pay tv channel, and that having the Telkom name on your product is such a terrible thing that people will go to all lengths to avoid doing any business whatsoever with you. I will laugh at them once they start providing the special offers practically begging people to just start using their pay tv system as they spent R10bn on a path that leads nowhere.

The flood gates will be opening shortly and Telkom will lose customers by the thousands, then only might they come to realize what they have done to this country and what people really feel for Telkom.
 
Government may throw a spanner in the works, though – Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Cassaburri has said she wants only one mobile TV network to be built;
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Oh, yes. because clearly only having one operator in the fixed line space has so worked so f$#% well for this country.
Great business model.
 
Somebody should throw a spanner at Poison Ivy
Preferably one of those extra large monkey wrenches (no pun intended)
 
Those bigjobs monkey wrenches that need two big guys to manhandle?

But most people will be suckered/brainwashed into believing that Telkom is the biggest and best... :(
 
If Monochoice thinks they can "defend aggressively" their "market share" without a price decrease and channel unbundling, they're obviously delusional.
 
What I want to know is how any challengers will get hold of the top shows. For example Lost, Desperate Housewives, etc. Doesnt Monochoice have a exclusive rights for these and all the shows?

I will only change to a new Pay TV provider if they carry these shows too.
 
I thought I would never say this but even sky in the UK has a better offering than Monochoice and at the same or similar price.. I thought SA was a bit cheaper than the UK but maybe I was dreaming.
 
Telkomhater said:
What I want to know is how any challengers will get hold of the top shows. For example Lost, Desperate Housewives, etc. Doesnt Monochoice have a exclusive rights for these and all the shows?

I will only change to a new Pay TV provider if they carry these shows too.
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There is no exclusivity, you pay for the rights. The reason that MChoice gets most of them first is because they have fewer viewers and the rights are calculated on audience size. SABC cannot afford most of these shows because their audience is so large... and because they wasted your license money on stupid court cases.
 
Providing high-definition (HD) TV broadcasts. Multichoice will have a test HD channel live by October, though it will only be viewable by company employees. “We are finalizing our business plans around HD,” says chief technology officer Gerdus Van Eeden. “It’s just a matter of time before we offer it.”
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This is probably the carrot in front of the donkey(s). Even though overseas broadcasters have been providing HD content for years now, Monochoice has only now decided to start looking at this as well, only now that competitors might provide this technology - heaven forbid! I know that not a lot of South Africans currently can afford HD-compatible sets like LCDs and plasma screens, but prices are coming down and I see more and more people coughing up the money to be able to watch their DVDs in widescreen. Monochoice should have already been able to offer this technology, especially seeing as the people that can afford their "full" bouquet, are the people that have upgraded already too. Just my two cents' worth.
 
dstv should really change their business model to defend against all the new technologies if they want to survive
 
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