Telkom-DStv deal may be here soon

BBotha said:
What a waste......
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Well, it does say that they are in talks with Netflix... and they can offer great local bandwith.

On paper they are the best people to do this deal.

The idea of a Netflix type service with DSTV content is a great idea, its exactly how it should be

Price is the issue though
 
Imagine what a killing Telkom could have made if they ran a Netflix / Hulu mirror for a cut, 2 years ago already. Their lack of business sense and future planning is just astonishing.

Perhaps the guys at the top are still trying to figure out how they can make more money out of Diginet and ISDN infrastructure.
 
Surely it would be far better to have a platform that can be accessed through any ISP not just Telkom. But then that would benefit the consumer too much and that's not what DSTV and Telkom are in the business of doing.

There's no technical reason why DSTV has to partner with Telkom.
 
Telkom is again venturing into waters where it does not belong. Stick to upping your core service.
Give us faster internet and make uncapped just that. Not throttling customers at 70GB
 
I think Telkom sees this as a way to punt their fibre once its up and running.

Clearly they do not understand that we will take fibre any given day however, with added dstv content, if included and priced accordingly, might just not make it that attractive anymore, almost like ADSL now with a voice line......
 
I wouldn't waste my fiber gigs streaming monochoice's 5h1t , I'll raise my head when there is a better deal between better partners
 
b166er said:
Imagine what a killing Telkom could have made if they ran a Netflix / Hulu mirror for a cut, 2 years ago already. Their lack of business sense and future planning is just astonishing.

Perhaps the guys at the top are still trying to figure out how they can make more money out of Diginet and ISDN infrastructure.
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Previous CEO insisted on selling Telkom Media...
 
MickeyD said:
Previous CEO insisted on selling Telkom Media...
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That's the problem with Telkom, they're afraid of uncharted waters. They dithered with mobile (and Vodacom), they refuse to install new lines. Their acquisition strategies have been most abortive. Except Vodacom, but they worked to hold Vodacom back.
 
Netflix will never work in South Africa until geographic licensing models are done away with and Netflix knows it. It's perfectly easy to get the US version of Netflix in South Africa at the moment with workarounds. If Netflix came up with a South African version it will almost certainly suffer the same fate as the UK, Australian and Canadian versions, i.e. a crap catalog of titles and rampant bypassing of the geographic restrictions by users so that they can access the full US catalog of titles.

The status quo at the moment suits Netflix just fine. They get revenue from South African customers while turning a blind eye to geographic restriction bypassing, and without the hassle and expense of an official presence here.
 
Vodafone UK struck a deal with Netflix to stream over their network.
Also from the same article:
Across Europe meanwhile, Vodafone has embarked upon a strategy of building and/or acquiring fixed networks. In Spain it is deploying a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network in partnership with Orange and Telefonica, and recently announced the purchase of local cableco ONO. In Germany, Vodafone is busy integrating recent acquisition of Kabel Deutschland.
In its home country, Vodafone's acquisition of Cable & Wireless Worldwide means its fixed-line strategy has been centred on the enterprise market. However, there has been persistent speculation that Vodafone plans to launch a consumer fixed-line offering too.
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Mobile operators are trying to get closer to their user base and the ability to offer triple-play services. Revenue from voice is not enough any more.
 
Nod said:
Vodafone UK struck a deal with Netflix to stream over their network.
Also from the same article:

Mobile operators are trying to get closer to their user base and the ability to offer triple-play services. Revenue from voice is not enough any more.
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The unfortunate problem in South Africa is that we are very quickly moving away from fixed-line services in a major way. FTTH is only ever going to be available for a handful of rich suburbs and gated communities while landline numbers are plummeting due to a combination of corporate greed, cable theft and business ineptitude. Geographic and socio-economic conditions don't help either.
 
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