TAG concerned about Telkom CEO

[rpm]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Telecoms/2044.html

The Telecommunications Action Group (TAG) says that Reuben September is very much a part of the existing monopolistic Telkom regime.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

The TAG further feels that the appointment of September suggests Telkom is not truly committed to any form of change.

That says it all.

The fireworks will be most excellent.

 

[Wyzak]

Today there are more than 430 000 less fixed telephone lines than in 1999,” the TAG concluded.

Nice one Telkom. Keep up the pace and you'll be client less in 5 years.

This article is a bit contradictory to the other one, but if he was appointed as CEO grats to him.

a) He gets a free pass to ride the country one last time and ensures Telkom's demise.
b) He starts and FINISHES massive turnabouts in the Telkom strategy, drastically reducing the cost of international bandwidth, dropping ADSL access charge, leaving local ADSL as uncapped, employing customer service, simplifying the pricing model, reducing ADSL installation time to less than a week, allowing customers to do ADSL self install on a new phone line, scrapping the requirement for a normal phone line and firing all of the staff members who have lied to the media before (which is most of them).

So Mr September, is it going to be A or B?

 

[mccrack]

Does Telkom's CEO's really have that much say ?

I'm sure they're just carrying out the major stakeholders will.

 

[ShaunSA]

So Mr September, is it going to be A or B?

It's going to be A naturally. Some things never change.

 

[DragonLogos]

Well if I was a Patsy I would try and shake it up until they got rid of me, which is what might have happened to Papi and maybe what will happen to Ruby is he steps out of line, and why we are doomed, doomed by the failures vision of some one or a group of people, who even now might realise that it has all gone wrong but are locked in for the ride, still if you made it into a TV program I dare say no one would watch

 

[ic]

I'm quite sure the anti-competitive monopolistic practices will continue as usual at Telkodemonopolies for a very long time - it's an integral part of the corporate culture within the beast.

What does concern me about Reuben September's appointment as CEO, is that he is likely to employ all the tricks in & out of all the books, to prevent major competitive changes from taking place - the most important change has to be LLU, and if that doesn't happen then SA will be a lost cause.