Telkom "can't wait" for SNO

oh ya

i "cant wait" to see telkom offer free adsl when tata rocks up and steals every last customer telkom has, even if we have to pay tata for adsl, i rather be with them than telkom.
 
The phone group will be increasing its spend to R4.1bn for new services and capital expenditure for customer growth. ADSL, which currently has 67 000 users, has been identified as one of the key areas that will drive revenue growth in addition to internet and data network customers.
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Obviously Telkom wants to grow ADSL.

The SNO will have to initially focus on the massive corporates who don't use ADSL.

This will leave Telkom with a de-facto monopoly for many more years delivering data services to consumers and SMME's. They are the people who use ADSL. And extremely vulnerable.
 
kaspaas said:
The SNO will have to initially focus on the massive corporates who don't use ADSL.
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Almost 90% of business users have been locked into 3-5 year contracts to stifle the SNO in acquiring customers at startup.
 
and dont forget, 'Sign a 2 year contract and get a free router' promo
 
If the SNO focuses on the areas in which Telkom made the most enemies (data services and SMME's), they will rapidly gain market share. Let's all hope that the SNO also see this as one of their major growth areas! I will definitely sign up quicker than Telkom can say "Show me the money!".
 
me too, sick and tired of this telkom crap.

They must reduce prices and F*&^ off
 
Telkom are sh!tting themselves big time. "Cant wait" yeah right !!
 
A rather lot of if's here...

I know telkom intimately... no-one is sh1tting themselves. Maybe the workers on the floor, yes... overworked, underpaid and having the fear of retrenchment on their heads but the upper management, i.e. where all the greedy fatcat bastards sit. They are not worried... they just want more and more and more and more and more and more...... and then move on when the company and SA has been raped for all it has.....
 
Telkom has a lot of cash to throw around (yes yours, your family and everyone you know's money) and will try undercut the sno at every available opportunity and make companies sign NDA's so that no one can find out by how much Telkom is undercutting.

The SNO can expect dirty tactics from Telkom - although best is to fight fire with fire.. I hope they have people cunning enough to shaft Telkom to kingdom come.
 
I hope it wont take too long for the SNO to go for private business. Although not as potentially "rich" as the business sector, they will get a lot of clients, I'm sure, and a lot of those clients are in big business. And so the word spreads. Here's hoping :o
 
Telkom has a lot of cash to throw around (yes yours, your family and everyone you know's money)
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This is very true, and what is even more substantial is the amount of investment in immovable assets i.e. buildings, equipment, etc that Telkom "inherited" when it was separated from the Post Office in 1991 and made semi-private.

Telkom already had digital exchanges in 1991... The first digital telephone exchange was installed in the early 80's in Sunninghill Park. I know this because I worked there and I saw the plaque on the wall. The exchange as well as the plaque was replaced due to Y2k concerns LOL :D

While I worked there it was impressed upon me that senior management's bonuses were proportional to the amount of money they saved. This whole "money save" culture was ever-present in the company and angered me because it meant on the cheap salary workers had to foot the bill for a lot of things, we take for granted nowadays working at better firms such as:

Tea/coffee
Tools
safety clothing

The diginet stuff is a classic example of legacy equipment... it's old, it's been designed many years ago using dated technology. Some of the components used on the card are obsolete yet customers are still being forced to fork out a horrendous R4999/month for 128kbits/sec



and will try undercut the sno at every available opportunity and make companies sign NDA's so that no one can find out by how much Telkom is undercutting.
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Telkom are experts at NDA's... and you are so right.

The SNO can expect dirty tactics from Telkom - although best is to fight fire with fire.. I hope they have people cunning enough to shaft Telkom to kingdom come.
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The SNO can indeed expect dirty tactics and then some too... I think it would be wise to form an alliance with them and warn them about what Telkom is really like!
 
Kei said:
The SNO can indeed expect dirty tactics and then some too... I think it would be wise to form an alliance with them and warn them about what Telkom is really like!
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Who the heck to contact though?
 
I saw the detail posted on this forum elsewhere earlier... but as to whom to speak to, no idea. I know very little about the SNO
 
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