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Telkom mum after Uganda setback
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playkiller no.2
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HA! HA! at Telkom.
Hearing news of Telkom expanding into neighbouring states is like hearing that your next door neighbour or good friend across the road has just been diagnosed with a particularly horrible and degenerative from of cancer that first paralyses, then kills shortly after.
Good to hear Uganda's test results came back negative
although this will just prolong our agony if one considers the apathy shown by our regulator and DoC.
Good to hear Uganda's test results came back negative
although this will just prolong our agony if one considers the apathy shown by our regulator and DoC.Gambit317z
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Wonderful!
Telkom's acquisition of any of those companies in Africa would be a serious blow to the development in those countries. Thankfully they've been most unsuccessful so far. Its a shame about the Africa Online deal though
Telkom's acquisition of any of those companies in Africa would be a serious blow to the development in those countries. Thankfully they've been most unsuccessful so far. Its a shame about the Africa Online deal though
Yup true though its a bit of a double edged sword for us.Its a shame about the Africa Online deal though
I get the distinct impression that all the delays in our comms regulation is well scripted to allow Telkom the time to build lucrative revenue streams outside of our borders so that when Paris Mashile eventually does come out of hibernation and does something useful, Telkom has a cushion.
The longer they dither with this the less worthwhile change we will see here.
Call is karma or call it an inability to act out of charater 
. I just can't see Telkom's acquisition arm being so different from the rest of the company, overly sure of themselves. Or perhaps their reputation for taking a company with perfectly healthy fixed line growth and steadily allowing the number of those lines to decline has reached the ears of our neighbours.
For Telkom fixed lines = money and without them there's no money so why they can't get this right is a bit of a catastrophe. Stupid to rely completely on your monopoly over SAT3 and other infrastructure to keep you afloat, they need to still grow their core business. This type of business model surely can't be sustainable.
Clever Ugandians may have just avoided a bit of a catastrophe.
. I just can't see Telkom's acquisition arm being so different from the rest of the company, overly sure of themselves. Or perhaps their reputation for taking a company with perfectly healthy fixed line growth and steadily allowing the number of those lines to decline has reached the ears of our neighbours. For Telkom fixed lines = money and without them there's no money so why they can't get this right is a bit of a catastrophe. Stupid to rely completely on your monopoly over SAT3 and other infrastructure to keep you afloat, they need to still grow their core business. This type of business model surely can't be sustainable.
Clever Ugandians may have just avoided a bit of a catastrophe
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stoke
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LAWL @ sneaky!
@ ANC .. NYAH NYAH NYAH NYAAAAAAAAAAH NYAH !
Now free our telecoms, you're stupid trojan horse was seen for what it is, and stop raping my country.
@ ANC .. NYAH NYAH NYAH NYAAAAAAAAAAH NYAH !
Now free our telecoms, you're stupid trojan horse was seen for what it is, and stop raping my country.
moosag
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This is fantasic news...
As they say What goes around comes around...... Karma.
And as for our oh so wonderful GVT. Well they might be hot stuff here locally. But outside our borders they are actually qoute useless from a business perspective. I mean ANC practically control Telkom. And if Telkom were to "own" all these shares of foreign telecom companies, indirectly it means that the SA GVT owns them too.
Now who does the business deals when trying to acquire these shares?? I am sure Telkom play a part but I am also sure GVT officials play a bigger part. Just shows you how useless our officials are. They cant even broker a deal offshore when they control the largest economy on the continent, control major shares in the largest Telecoms Company in Africa andmost of all have ooddles and noodles of money to outbid rivals.
Is it just me... Or did our so call ANC Officials buy or find their so called "Business Degrees"???
And what would even add more insult to injury is an article highlighting the fact that Telkom couldnt broker a deal offshore until or unless loacl GVT gives up control of its shares and allows Telkom to become a truly private sector entity.
As they say What goes around comes around...... Karma.
And as for our oh so wonderful GVT. Well they might be hot stuff here locally. But outside our borders they are actually qoute useless from a business perspective. I mean ANC practically control Telkom. And if Telkom were to "own" all these shares of foreign telecom companies, indirectly it means that the SA GVT owns them too.
Now who does the business deals when trying to acquire these shares?? I am sure Telkom play a part but I am also sure GVT officials play a bigger part. Just shows you how useless our officials are. They cant even broker a deal offshore when they control the largest economy on the continent, control major shares in the largest Telecoms Company in Africa andmost of all have ooddles and noodles of money to outbid rivals.
Is it just me... Or did our so call ANC Officials buy or find their so called "Business Degrees"???
And what would even add more insult to injury is an article highlighting the fact that Telkom couldnt broker a deal offshore until or unless loacl GVT gives up control of its shares and allows Telkom to become a truly private sector entity.
Telkoms bad publicity just bit them in the arse.
Government and telkom (and the rest of their ilk!) think they can just let things slide; ignore us. Ignore the country. (Play rates games!) Well their long list of failed deals in africa shows word travels fast and far (even with our dearth of internet.)
Show some commitment to us and maybe the rest of africa will believe you.
Government and telkom (and the rest of their ilk!) think they can just let things slide; ignore us. Ignore the country. (Play rates games!) Well their long list of failed deals in africa shows word travels fast and far (even with our dearth of internet.)
Show some commitment to us and maybe the rest of africa will believe you.
mancombseepgood
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Heh...
I was in the shuttle back from the Sheraton, Kampala to the airport with the two Telkom rep's this week and had an opportunity to share my view on the "enemy"
It was funny to hear their argument about Neotel... "Let them present their case to their shareholders"
it's what telkom has always been about - not so?
Oh ja - and I had to hear the argument that they wanted the wifi spectrum opened up for self provisioning if the last mile of copper was opened to the competition... "It's not fair"... "boo hoo hoo"
My first words after they introduced themselves were "Aaah - so you work for the enemy (shaking hands)"... ha ha - it felt good.
I was in the shuttle back from the Sheraton, Kampala to the airport with the two Telkom rep's this week and had an opportunity to share my view on the "enemy"
It was funny to hear their argument about Neotel... "Let them present their case to their shareholders"
it's what telkom has always been about - not so?
Oh ja - and I had to hear the argument that they wanted the wifi spectrum opened up for self provisioning if the last mile of copper was opened to the competition... "It's not fair"... "boo hoo hoo"
My first words after they introduced themselves were "Aaah - so you work for the enemy (shaking hands)"... ha ha - it felt good.
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