Telkom mobile is a no-brainer

Telkom has to enter the mobile space, or risk a decade or so of literally winding down its legacy business.
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That sentence scares the heebie jeebies out of me... because it means that Telkom's fixed line assetts and services are no longer a priority to the Massive operator who still holds exclusive control over the local loop.

What it also means is that Telkom is going to let the local loop degrade and encourage customers to move over to it's mobile division without having to give anyone else access to the local loop.

Am I wrong? Telkom is the only company that can provide businesses and residences with ADSL technology... but that is obviously no longer a priority to Telkom. So they don't mind letting that network decline.

The end- result will mean we ADSL users will be forced to move to more expensive mobile solutions that don't perform as well as fixed line offerings. :mad:

Is Telkom planning on giving us the same bandwidth prices on it's mobile network as it's fixed line network? I doubt it.

ICASA needs to catch a serious wake up right now and put a stop to this by unbundling the local loop TODAY!
 
Garyvdh said:
That sentence scares the heebie jeebies out of me... because it means that Telkom's fixed line assetts and services are no longer a priority to the Massive operator who still holds exclusive control over the local loop.
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And this is my exact feeling as well, something I feel that all the people rooting for Telkom's fall don't really realize. Until LLU happens, there will be other entity we as end-users can shift over to, should the giant collapse, and the repercussions of that will be immense. Effectively, we'll be set back to a telecommunications-stone age, a situation multiple times worse than slow ADSL speeds.
 
calling a telkom landline from a telkom mobile will be free from the allocated minutes on your closer plan - for businesses it may charge fees as low as R 0.50c per minute to call a mobile from a landline. Free 3G roaming and usage allocation from your adsl package. :)
 
Fantastic1 said:
calling a telkom landline from a telkom mobile will be free from the allocated minutes on your closer plan - for businesses it may charge fees as low as R 0.50c per minute to call a mobile from a landline. Free 3G roaming and usage allocation from your adsl package. :)
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I doubt that they are going to allow me to do 1 Terabyte a month over their 3G network... if that were even possible :(
 
Iv got telkom mobile,and it's not to bad.Great help when u phone them.Just when u check ur balance u get 4 sms's with it and they need a mms/internet settings system.Virgin mobile had that the first day they came out,even before Cell C did,(the automatic system that sends u the settings)

and data bundles for pre-paid for goodness sake!
 
Fantastic1 said:
calling a telkom landline from a telkom mobile will be free from the allocated minutes on your closer plan - for businesses it may charge fees as low as R 0.50c per minute to call a mobile from a landline. Free 3G roaming and usage allocation from your adsl package. :)
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Telkom should make it possible to use your existing adsl account (axxess, afrihost, webafrica, etcetcetc) with their 3G network, without interfering with the data tariffs on these packages.

So you will still get your R29@1Gb's data worth.
 
HAHAHAHAHAHA!

So when your landline goes down you can call the service desk from your Telkom cell phone. Oh, wait. No! The cell number is also not working. Double bonus. At least the 3 hour calls to the ADSL fault line should be free then.
 
Having seen how Telkom operates I cannot see that happening, they're much too greedy. Why give away for free what you can charge for.
Problem is I'm not interested in Telkom mobile per se, I want ADSL. According to the article that's not Telkoms priority anymore. What's the way forward?
 
Telkom could also set up call hunting between your fixed line, and mobile.

The only problem with Telkom going mobile, is that they, as a monopoly, could make it in the fixed line business. How will they manage to actually compete in the mobile arena?
 
The masses in South Africa are uneducated and poor ... probably making fixed landline ADSL un-attractive.. maybe if it was much cheaper but Telkom is like a profit parasite... just chasing the cash cow and no regard for it's consumers because it has a monopoly on the local loop.
 
Garyvdh said:
This...

http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=8061
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Very disengenius way of reporting by the correspondent... He used the normalised 2010 numbers but not the normalised 2009 numbers.

https://secure1.telkom.co.za/apps_static/ir/pdf/financial/pdf/Annual_Presentation_2010.pdf

See page 29 for the proper numbers.

Did you not find it strange that none of the recognised financial scribes mentioned 92% ? Probably because they knew it was wrong.

Profit from continuing operations was down 7.1% and not 92%. Still not good, though...
 
Fail-tanic ... once again at it , they are trying everything they can to make money but only succeed in wasting money! Unlike Midas everything telkom touches turns into a turd! This is more pie-in-the-sky dreams . They hope people will go for it . Why dont they just work on what they have and make it better ? Fixed line adsl , that is where they can make the most money. Yet they want to branch out into everything under the sun , but cant succeed in anything they do. Look at the epic fail of adsl in their hands. I get the feeling that "larry , Mo and Curly" (the three stooges) are actually telkoms "brain-trust" .

Once again nothing new here, telkom just trying to complete yet another epic fail.... Move along people, nothing new to be seen here, more high paid clowns with delusions of grandeur..
 
Kabal said:
Fail-tanic ... once again at it , they are trying everything they can to make money but only succeed in wasting money! Unlike Midas everything telkom touches turns into a turd! This is more pie-in-the-sky dreams . They hope people will go for it . Why dont they just work on what they have and make it better ? Fixed line adsl , that is where they can make the most money. Yet they want to branch out into everything under the sun , but cant succeed in anything they do. Look at the epic fail of adsl in their hands. I get the feeling that "larry , Mo and Curly" (the three stooges) are actually telkoms "brain-trust" .

Once again nothing new here, telkom just trying to complete yet another epic fail.... Move along people, nothing new to be seen here, more high paid clowns with delusions of grandeur..
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