Telecoms costs cut by 45%

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Telecoms costs cut by 45%

Presenting a report of somewhat mixed achievement to a media conference held in both Pretoria and Cape Town on Tuesday, Minister of Trade and Industry Mandisi Mpahlwa noted that one of the successes of the economic cluster of ministers was that telecommunications costs have been cut over the past three years by 45%.
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Great so costs have been cut, now why haven't the savings been passed onto consumers? Is he admitting to shafting us?
 
Garyvdh said:
They have? Why didn't anybody tell us? :confused:
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I would also like to see that research. Telkom line rentals and local call have gone up if I am not mistaken, and I dont think there has been significant movement in mobile pricing. On a wholesale level prices did come down...maybe that is what the Mpahlwa is selling...
 
A quick Google back to 2006...

http://mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=2948

Internet service providers claim that Telkom charges six or seven times more than can be justified, and that makes internet access artificially expensive for all consumers.
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So a 45% price drop on something that was originally seven times too expensive still means too bloody expensive!
 
Maybe they're building and maintaining less, thereby reducing their costs? :rolleyes: ;) He did say their infrastructure and build programme were being hampered.

I haven't seen these savings anywhere. :confused: But I have seen and experienced degradation of services.
 
If I go back 3 years in my Telkom bills I cannot concur that cost to the end user have come down at all.

More bullschit from these thieving barstards.
 
Focus pinky, focus. Costs have been cut 45%. Costs to the providers, not the consumers. At least that's the way I'd expect it to have gone down. Just like if the cost of cast iron or aluminium got cut 45% you wouldn't suddenly be able to pick up a new car for around half the price.
 
Probably the so-called "Basket of Services" - so that good ol' fandangled party line is less than ever before ;)
 
Costs are still way too expensive but some costs have come down...not all of them though. So some people benefit and others don't. I can't see that you can make a blanket statement that costs have come down by x...
 
Telskum profiteering? Never.

Sitting on his pile of consumer souls, Reuben September has a shocked look on his face. As he dooms another household to perpetual e-darkness by raising rates yet again, he looks genuinely worried, even devastated by the allegations.

"Well yes, costs did go down 45% but that was absorbed by all sorts of factors," he says as a Technician leaps forward to light his cigar off a R200 bill.
"The fact is, electrical impulses are more expensive, gravity makes it more and more difficult for us to get to customer's homes and frankly, our profit margin is almost too heavy for our infrastructure to support so there are upgrade costs to think about as well."
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Seems pretty selfless.
 
The only thing I realised is in the past I never had a 4Mbit line, Unlimited Off Peak Calls, 1000 Peak Minutes or so much access to news servers.

SO for me this is a nice change from hardly being able to make calls during the day and watch calls at night or R7 per hour and a dialup combination.
 
MrG said:
The only thing I realised is in the past I never had a 4Mbit line, Unlimited Off Peak Calls, 1000 Peak Minutes or so much access to news servers.

SO for me this is a nice change from hardly being able to make calls during the day and watch calls at night or R7 per hour and a dialup combination.
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And how much less are you paying now compared to then?
 
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