Telkom dogged by network problems

Shame rpm! You should stop picking on poor Telkom. They're just trying to give quality service.

Heheh.
 
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Telkom have more failures than the Eastern Cape matric results of last year!
 
AntiThesis said:
Shame rpm! You should stop picking on poor Telkom. They're just trying to give quality service.

Heheh.
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I am not picking on them, they are picking on us! ADSL outages, no feedback, no apologies etc. We can truly feel sorry for ourselves!
 
rpm said:
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I am not picking on them, they are picking on us! ADSL outages, no feedback, no apologies etc. We can truly feel sorry for ourselves!
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Yup, poor Telkom - everyone else in the country blames them for everything - who can they blame?

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I suppose they could always blame us... "MyADSL are stealing the bandwidth. They come and fill up buckets of the stuff."
 
It's plainly obvious that Telkom's one and only interest is to rip as much money out of the company as is possible before fails.

A responsible corporate would be taking more interest in the service it is supplying to its clients than the amount of dividend it can take. By cutting down on staff it is increasing profits and hence dividends, but this is going cause an even lower service level.

Once a viable alternative to Telkom exists, Telkom is going to start shedding clients like my cat sheds hair in the moulting season, which will once again push the spiral of lay-offs and service downgrade.

Telkom's attitude is very short term and not in the country's best interest and one looks hard at the government, through the DOC and ICASA, at forcing a change in attitude if we are not going to disappear into the dark ages in the telecomms arena.
 
There are serious issues on the reliablity of the Telkom network, they invested too little or maybe no money at all in their networks after 1994.

Extremely reactive instead of proactive, this does not bode well for a telco company to be in such a position, and we as the customers are going to be the scapegoats for this bad planning. Thank goodness the SNO is here and can take up the slack, It should actually be of value to us if you consider it, that the SNO is taking so long with their plans, maybe and hopefully the SNO will be proactive in their planning and we as potential customers will reap the benefit.
 
Yes and the more layoffs from telkom, the more experienced techies in the market place to pick up for the SNO. I have never had a problem with the technical staff at Telkom, all they needed was proper motivation and a decent company to work for!
 
I just like to thank Telkom for their crappy ADSL service this weekend allowing me to win several online races for a change because of the ADSL users dropping of the servers like flies
 
Can't help wondering if we're not getting too high expectations of what the SNO will bring to us...

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If they fit in with the SA model of "competition" I think we will be in for a bit of a shock to the system. Lets hope not.
 
I think at this point people would be willing to accept the SNO simply because it's NOT telkom.
 
Maybe it is time to sell those teklom shares? Because if teklom's gonna fall flat on its face when its network infrastructure goes down, then the shareholders' gonna cry blue murder... :) and somebody with balls need to stand up to them to tell them that they're NOT going to pull new wires... :D

Not my problem... I'm waiting for the SNO. Hopefully this will happen before the brown stuff hits the fan...
 
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I wonder if someone shouldn't do us all a favour and build one of those infamous "boxes". Make every phone in the country suddently start ringing :D
 
This begs the question about Telkom’s ability to handle the additional ADSL users and the associated fault management required with increased broadband penetration.
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At an average of 30 working days for an install, it's no longer a question. They are not coping and have not been for some time. DESPITE THE PROFITS, THEY APPARENTLY CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE AND ENCOURAGE JOBLESSNESS AND POVERTY IN AFRICA
 
Shareholders don't care

The_Unbeliever said:
Maybe it is time to sell those teklom shares? Because if teklom's gonna fall flat on its face when its network infrastructure goes down, then the shareholders' gonna cry blue murder... :) and somebody with balls need to stand up to them to tell them that they're NOT going to pull new wires... :D

Not my problem... I'm waiting for the SNO. Hopefully this will happen before the brown stuff hits the fan...
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They can afford cell calls.
 
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