Stop hurting SA: Telkom CEO addresses Vodacom and MTN

It ads another perspective (and reminds how much MTN and Vodacom has gained over the past years), but it's still a bit rich coming from Telkom!

A reminder to Telkom that their empire was built with public money.

I'm expecting ISP CEO's open letters to Telkom to follow ;-)
 
ROFL! Telkom could do a lot more for South Africa if they stop fighting the regulator and the industry in general. I really hope some clever ISP calls Telkom out on this. MyBB how about asking Telkom themselves?
 
TwilightWalker said:
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I wanted to say that with my glass house analogy.

Bullsheet baffles brains. Since 2004 MyBroadband (Nee MyADSL) has challenged Telkom on cost cutting, product offerings and service, but instead they paid out handsome dividends to shareholders and wasted money in other parts of Africa and at home with expensive and useless projects and ignored the customer due to their own arrogance.

Telkom may have some new people at the helm with a new approach, it still does not erase years of bad management and poor service, we don't forget that easily.

I agree, it is time the ISP's in ZA send Telkom a similar letter, although I suspect they have sent many over the years, probably all sitting in file 13.
 
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BTTB said:
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I wanted to say that with my glass house analogy.

Bullsheet baffles brains. Since 2004 MyBroadband (Nee MyADSL) has challenged Telkom on cost cutting and service, but instead they paid out handsome dividends to shareholders and wasted money in other parts of Africa and at home with expensive and useless projects and ignored the customer due to their own arrogance.

Telkom may have some new people at the helm with a new approach, it still does not erase years of bad management and poor service, we don't forget that easily.

I agree, it is time the ISP's in ZA send Telkom a similar letter, although I suspect they have sent many over the years, probably all sitting in file 13.
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Short memory? CC fine of R450mil?
 
Classic Telkom, maybe you could stop ripping ISP's off with the high IPC charges?
Make sure your house is clean before you start throwing stones Sipho Maseko.....
 
MickeyD said:
You have here for a long time, please explain the public money theory.
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State-owned company that built the old infrastructure with tax-payer money, that for many years had a state-sanctioned monopoly, and to this day they still exclusively control parts of the system.
 
very nice

and no people "Telkom's empire" was not built with "public money" from inception telecoms subsidized post (evidenced by the fact that government departments requiring extensive telecommunications needed exemption) and on corporatization Telkom assumed a massive liability pool. The real evil has been monopolistic protections rather than anything about being built with public money.

Where Telkom is holding South Africa back at the moment is with LLU and taking the full leap into a facilities ownership and management as a utility paradigm. I strongly suspect however that until Telkom Mobile is able to get traction into the market Telkom is going to have great difficulty charting its own necessary transition - and remember Mobile does not mean 2G cellular but the voice revenue is hanging fruit.

However again I am left with the view that the 38 service providers (using Vodacom's list of 39 respondents less the 2 ICASA respondents and add Vodacom) need to get together in a room and plot a course forward. The bulk of the respondents would really just be looking for means of growing infrastructure on which their businesses can grow - VoIP terminations (which being fixed line really doesn't enjoy much gain from these regulations at all (essentially 13c as the termination across the period) are not seeing anything to write home about but if the BAUF (big and ugly four/five) reinvest in their networks in accordance with the tariff structure they can benefit. There really are simple workable approaches that meets the Four-Way Test even if it won't make any of the operators happy - that is it will be fair and beneficial but not the optimal outcome for any given operator. If the four operators with skin in the mobile termination space can stop mucking about in a brawl and put some energy into the future they would be serving their shareholders.
 
Jacques said:
State-owned company that built the old infrastructure with tax-payer money, that for many years had a state-sanctioned monopoly, and to this day they still exclusively control parts of the system.
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Not a single sent of tax money was ever used for Telkom and more importantly telecoms subsidized post as an absolute principle

A state-sanctioned monopoly is a separate issue but Vodacom and MTN enjoyed a subsidized by Telkom duopoly
 
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