"Telkom is killing itself"

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The company said it has experienced declining performance in the following areas of operation:

  • Fixed voice market (which previously made-up more than half of Telkom’s gross revenue)
  • Fixed data (due to migration to mobile data)"
...er ... this is forced down by TELKOM on clients who wants to continue with it...
 
lol funny comments here, ignoring everything else around this topic
 
Matt91 said:
SAA alone sitting with 16000 unnecessary staff - 16000 taxpayers to 16000 social grant dependents.
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These are NOT "taxpayers"
The salaries they get -- from which tax is deducted comes from YOUR money !
SAA has been bailed out with "top-ups" -- which come from the SA TAXPAYER -- for so long now

The people that work there are living on YOUR money
and
Paying tax from salaries provided by YOU

In other words 16,000 social grant recipients are being paid by YOU ( SA taxpayer )
As well as
16,000 SAA staff
 
MidnightWizard said:
These are NOT "taxpayers"
The salaries they get -- from which tax is deducted comes from YOUR money !
SAA has been bailed out with "top-ups" -- which come from the SA TAXPAYER -- for so long now

The people that work there are living on YOUR money
and
Paying tax from salaries provided by YOU

In other words 16,000 social grant recipients are being paid by YOU ( SA taxpayer )
As well as
16,000 SAA staff
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Stuff you smoke must be super strong.

Regardless of where the money comes from, they pay PAYE & VAT.

The convenient claim that it comes from government can be “recycled” for a lot of companies.. from the plethora of service providers, auditors, etc that serve government.. are they also handouts?

I’m willing to be bet that there are very few companies that are not directly or indirectly gov funded given your explanation because let’s be frank.. your employees went to some form of tertiary institution is also gov funding.. ie gov subsidies education such that it recoups via tax these okes generate. This is why a direct emigration tax has been mooted for years specifically wrt educated/skilled persons.. instead of the current tax.
 
Wait I remember someone saying that I can't throw Telkom in with the rest of the failed SOEs... Well lookie lookie
 
The company said it has experienced declining performance in the following areas of operation:

  • Fixed voice market (which previously made-up more than half of Telkom’s gross revenue)
  • Fixed data (due to migration to mobile data)
  • Organisational and operational efficiencies
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Very few people willingly migrate from uncapped to copper to mostly capped mobile, so that BS, Telkom is forcing them to.

And Telkom should use their small competitive advantage (they know the ADSL customer densities etc) to roll out fibre ASAP.
 
In the area I lived LTE was an option. Telkom wanted everybody to switch to LTE. Only problem was when 1 suburb's copper was stolen they all went to LTE. Now LTE was stopped due to congestion. No alternative is given and no date is given when they can apply again. Received a WA from a person who is close to this fiasco. Glad I left SA. I live in 1 country and work in another. Everything works.
 
Jamie McKane said:
"Telkom is killing itself"

Telkom has begun engaging with unions over its planned retrenchments, with the company planning to cut 3,000 employees in the first phase.

The Information Communication Technology Union (ICTU) has condemned the company's unilateral implementation of retrenchments, adding that the company has been slowly killing itself with its "hopeless" business strategy.
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Maybe they are giving cr@p service in all 11 official languages? Just sayin'
 
I expect the unions to give them hell. Eventually, instead of loosing 30-40K job, they will loose all of them.
 
Lupus said:
Wait I remember someone saying that I can't throw Telkom in with the rest of the failed SOEs... Well lookie lookie
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The heading is from a union head talking about Telkom retrenching staff that are redundant. I don't really see how that's Telkom killing itself or Telkom being a failure.
 
krycor said:
Stuff you smoke must be super strong.

Regardless of where the money comes from, they pay PAYE & VAT.

The convenient claim that it comes from government can be “recycled” for a lot of companies.. from the plethora of service providers, auditors, etc that serve government.. are they also handouts?

I’m willing to be bet that there are very few companies that are not directly or indirectly gov funded given your explanation because let’s be frank.. your employees went to some form of tertiary institution is also gov funding.. ie gov subsidies education such that it recoups via tax these okes generate. This is why a direct emigration tax has been mooted for years specifically wrt educated/skilled persons.. instead of the current tax.
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He has a point. You are not a tax contributor if you are a net receiver of tax money. That's like saying someone isn't getting handouts because they give 10% to the shelter. The public sector is too bloated so it's irrelevant how much tax they pay as they aren't a contributor to the fiscus. The real tax payers in this country is much less than the official figures and the government employees paying "tax" is just recycling that money.
 
If their fibre prices and speeds were good then customers would migrate to Telkom but they offering similar or worse pricing structure than competitors. Get rid of 10 and 20mbps speeds and start at 40mbps and R500
 
Mampara said:
If their fibre prices and speeds were good then customers would migrate to Telkom but they offering similar or worse pricing structure than competitors. Get rid of 10 and 20mbps speeds and start at 40mbps and R500
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NOOOOO! We should be going less expensive, not more expensive.
 
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