Telkom Media faces uncertain future

Nice to see Telkom fking themselves over! :D This was there chance to make amends and they can't even seem to do that properly!

This does tick me off a little though, because they were granted a license that could have gone to somebody more deserving of it.
 
I really hope Telkom Media makes it. It will most likely rebrand - something which they have said from very early on. They are the only guys which can bring true competition to the market…
 
Running scared of Neotel now are they? Wanting to protect and strengthen their core business.

Lets hope that this blinkered approach will have them running over the cliff!
 
This is the first sign that there may be doubts from Telkom about the feasibility of a national IPTV rollout.
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Took the top brass a while to figure this one out ... always better to speak to your techies instead of listening to pie in the sky Gartner reports.
 
It's no surprise considering that their business model was fatally flawed. They were never going to be able to provide at the prices they were spewing out. It would not even cover the cost of the ADSL2+ line required knowing Telkom. Add bandwidth and actual content cost. Oops sorry, we made a boo-boo.

If South Africa had a regulator, Telkom Media's license would have been suspended 30minutes after the announcement by the CEO.
 
Wyzak said:
It's no surprise considering that their business model was fatally flawed. They were never going to be able to provide at the prices they were spewing out. It would not even cover the cost of the ADSL2+ line required knowing Telkom. Add bandwidth and actual content cost. Oops sorry, we made a boo-boo.

If South Africa had a regulator, Telkom Media's license would have been suspended 30minutes after the announcement by the CEO.
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Yes, providing content on an UP TO 4mbps line with a capped threshold seemed like an impossible task, something that many people bought up here on the forums.

SURELY this is something that when issueing/reviewing the application of licenses, this could have been one of the questions bought forward. i.e. How you going to be provide the IPTV service over a slow line and limited cap??? Seems like the most obvious question to me.
 
September said that IPTV holds great potential and added that Telkom can – after receiving the appropriate licenses – provide a variety of content to its subscribers over its network.
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Would that be TelkodemonopoliesMedia or Telkodemonopolies itself - I was under the impression that we mere mortals are still all required to pretend that they are entirely separate companies and have nothing whatsoever to do with one another...surely !CASA would issue the PayTV licence in the name of TelkodemonopoliesMedia and not Telkodemonopolies...:confused:
September further said that fixed-line businesses all over the world need to focus on their strengths in the face of increased competition and this will require investment. He said it is in Telkom’s interest to support and strengthen the fixed-line business.
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While I agree 100% that Telkodemonopolies should be focussing on its core business which is wired fixed lines, I would refrain from describing the wired fixed line business as being one of Telkodemonopolies' strengths considering how incompetent the monopolistic beast really is; furthermore I don't see how rolling out wireless services is an example of Telkodemonopolies focussing on its wired fixed line services...:rolleyes:
Telkom has started the process of reducing its Telkom Media shareholding according to September and the company’s aim is to keep the smallest possible stake whilst retaining the rights to provide IPTV products and have access to content.
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Hmmm sounds like Sentech holding onto WiMax spectrum that it isn't using, sounds anti-competitive as well...if it smells fishy, it is fishy...:rolleyes:
Telkom Media said that they are currently investigating other potential investors and will make a statement in due course.
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Please do let us know when you no longer share the same offices with Telkodemonopolies at its HQ in Pretoria, and when you've changed your name to something far less offensive.
Abe said:
This is really bad. I am torn between my total dislike for NoChoice and my hatred for Telskum.
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Be torn asunder no more: now you only have [Mo]noChoice and possibly ODM to choose from...
 
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Ha if Telkom can't even run a call centre for their ADSL department how on earth are they going to run Telkom Media?
 
mcleodd said:
I was wondering this week whether MultiChoice knew about Telkom's decision before announcing their recent price hike.

By the way, I've written a detailed report about the developments in this week's FM:

http://www.fmtech.co.za/telecoms/telkom-a-big-shift-in-strategy/
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Will read shortly with great interest as usual :).

I would like to think that Telkodemonopolies knows that LLU is coming, and that rolling out ADSL2+ prior to LLU, in particular for providing an IPTV service, might cost the monopolistic beast a lot more money than simply delaying ADSL2+ and consequently IPTV for a few years until the 'scurge' of LLU passes, but that's highly unlikely.

I suspect Telkodemonopolies simply looked at the breakdown of ADSL line speeds and distances from exchanges, and realised that it has too many [by its definition] "Fast" ADSL lines and not enough "Fastest" ADSL lines, and finally twigged that TelkodemonopoliesMedia would hardly have any IPTV customers capable of getting an ADSL2+ injection.

I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but I think the realisation needs to set in that without the lure of IPTV-profits like a carrot spurring Telkodemonopolies on, and a move towards competing with Vodacom & MTN & CellC with wireless services, Telkodemonopolies is going to allow ADSL to stagnate in SA - forget about ADSL2+ in the near future.
 
they can't even provide basic adsl and now iptv?
 
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