Telkom’s broadband plans

I don't see any plans in that article. Numbers, but not plans.
 
And they go about meeting their goals by not decreasing the price of ADSL yesterday. *fail*
 
all that is left now is for neotel + IS to disappoint as well
 
384 and 512 IMO don't classify as broadband. So unless Telkom are considering seriously dropping the price of their 4MB (something they haven't done this year) this statement is at best laughable:

Telkom CEO Reuben September is also after the title of broadband champion in South Africa, and recently said that he would like the group to be known as the leading provider of broadband services. Telkom may however find the going tough in an increasingly competitive broadband market.
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Mind you, most of what September says is laughable.
 
They don't spell out how they are going to increase their penetration rate.

Mind you, with their ludicrous line rentals, they have turned penetration into an art form.
 
I do not believe what Telkom is saying about wanting to increase their broadband users.

I applied for ADSL three years ago. I still do not have ADSL and since then I have been using Vodacom HSDPA. Telkom said everytime that they are not investing in new infrustructure in this financial year.

I have spent R14, 004, 72GB on Vodacom 3G in the last three years, which Telkom has now lost out on, that is only one customer, how many more are their with similar stories? They are not serious about growth.
 
Shred said:
I do not believe what Telkom is saying about wanting to increase their broadband users.

I applied for ADSL three years ago. I still do not have ADSL and since then I have been using Vodacom HSDPA. Telkom said everytime that they are not investing in new infrustructure in this financial year.

I have spent R14, 004 (72GB) on Vodacom 3G in the last three years, which Telkom has now lost out on, that is only one customer, how many more are their with similar stories? They are not serious about growth.
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Just to add to that, when Telkom 3G came out, I applied for the 500mb service as their map showed that my house had very good coverage. When I eventually got my sim card, it turned out that I did not have coverage, they messed up on the map. So I had to cancel the service and continued with my Vodacom 3G.
 
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Almost 2 years to get a line

What absolutely confounds me is that their profits have dropped and they don't seem to understand why.

I applied for an ADSL line 2 years ago (will be two years in August this year) and after contacting them at least once a month quoting my reference number etc every month for a full eight months I gave up trying to give Telkom my business. They literally had me banging down the door to pay them money for a service and they just could not be bothered to follow up on it.

Now to be clear I stay in Johannesburg in a main subburb not out in the sticks where there are no phones so that fact that after two years they couldn't be bothered to install an ADSL line for me just blows my mind.
 
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Well, hopefully, now that vodacom and telkom are no longer busines partners telkom will actually see vodacom as competition.
 
Telkom only has one plan...

[-]What can the customers afford[/-]?
How much do the customers earn?
Add ten percent!
Add some nebulous line rental charge
= Cost of service.

in Telkom board rooms this is known as the "rape them for all they are worth pricing plan"
 
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Sometimes I hate this country and some of its blind to reason greedy pig people..
 
I love how they seem proud of the high percentage of self-installs. Do they not realise that the only reason the number is so high is because the majority of the public want their ADSL installed in under six months?
 
Every year they report disappointing results, every year some figure or other shrinks, every year they are going to do this or that amazing thing. And at the end of every year, you are worse off than last year, and you have failed to do anything. You want to be the new DSTV, then you want to be the new Vodacom, then you want to be the new MTN. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Telkom you pay Ruben R 72 000 an hour for this? Save yourself the money, get a cocky BCom graduate who just graduated and pay him or her to do the job. And while you are at it, get that graduate's friends to become board members, they would be an improvement on the lobotomised bunch you have now.

I see Telkom wants to de-list from the NYSE. Apparently the requirements for being listed are too "onerous". Onerous? Are you kidding me? What did you think, that the NYSE would let any Tom, Dick and Ruben list on the NYSE? Do you know why you listed on the JSE in the first place? Do you know what you are going to be doing tomorrow besides playing golf?
 
Gatecrasher said:
They don't spell out how they are going to increase their penetration rate.

Mind you, with their ludicrous line rentals, they have turned penetration into an art form.
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The feeling I get is the penetration, what was that about the market?


Garyvdh said:
Telkom only has one plan...

[-]What can the customers afford[/-]?
How much do the customers earn?
Add ten percent!
Add some nebulous line rental charge
= Cost of service.

in Telkom board rooms this is known as the "rape them for all they are worth pricing plan"
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Isn't that called: "What the market will bare."

And they are stripping us bare where they can... (Rather where we let them :sick:)
 
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