Telkom promises broadband

Paris Mashile, the chairman of regulator Icasa who also attended the results presentation, suggested that perhaps Telkom’s 161% growth in ADSL services was linked to the fact that as a de facto monopoly operator, it virtually had a “captive audience”.
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perhaps? but an interestng angle for him to take nevertheless...

Molotsane conceded that Telkom was the incumbent operator, but said the market had seen a proliferation of new operators, particularly on the wireless broadband front, and the second network operator would also come to market soon.
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what constitutes a "proliferation"? sentech and wbs? or does he also include the WISPs?
 
As someone else put it, Telkom might promise Broadband, but all they have delivered so far is Fraudband.
 
I wonder if Telkom isn't smarter than we're giving them credit for. If I were a monopoly and I knew that my time might soon come, I would launch a threefold plan to make damned sure I stayed right in the top of the market.

1) Impose draconian prices on broadband/telephone and become the "bad guy" under a particular CEO (non-customer centric). This is good for profit (captive audience)

2) New CEO brought in to coincide with the formation of the SNO who is more "customer centric". Price hike again but this time more blame placed on the organization and the CEO seems to be prepared to "see the error of their ways". If this results in better telecoms service, customers grudgingly give their support to Telkom again. Hell, most of MyADSL would support them if they did that. That is the point after all.

3) New CEO in place, new pricing in place (after metaphorical slap on wrist by ICASA, consumers) and Telkom is still at the head of their game in the country rather than going head to head with the SNO and struggling for market share.

Meh. Just my thoughts. If I never post here again, know that Telkom has taken me and I'll be found having fallen down the stairs and strangled myself with a POTS filter :D

I've actually heard from ICASA in the past day or so and it seems positive. I'm just waiting for an offical letter from them that I can post here without any legal ramifications.
 
Halo . Is this the same company who sign a contract for millions of tel lines
 
"We are ready for competition." - I bet you are.

Anyway, this was interesting:

International voice operators in other markets have seen their revenues suffer in the face of VoIP, or the channeling of voice services over data networks at cheaper rates. Molotsane says VoIP tends to affect companies that rely only on the provision of voice services. “We don’t want to let them (disruptive technologies like VoIP) disrupt us, in fact we will embrace them.”
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A crushing embrace, as can be seen where they shape the hell out of VoIP...

/spit on Telkom.

When the SNO arrives, I'm leaving. They're going to have to achieve their broadband penetration (hahaha - perhaps a Telkom synonym for ramming it up your ***) targets without me...

Juice
 
Telkom wants a million broadband customers in the next three years, which means growing the number ten times from the current base.
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Telkom has a broadband service!? No they don't. They have essentially a form of dial-up over a DSL line, but they certainly don't provide a consumer broadband service.

Telkom's strategy behind what they call "embracing broadband" is really to basically continue providing same services they do now, for a similar price, but over a DSL line (e.g. Telkom VOIP, they'll deliberately cripple any other VOIP on the line). The November 1st pricing model is the most obvious evidence of this strategy, as well as the launching of their "re-education campaign" to "teach" the public that ADSL is "not meant to be" anything other than yet another kind of 'pay per use' service (in SA, unlike other countries).

This is actually a smart plan, because (a) 'on paper', they'll get to say there is high broadband penetration and 'convergence' etc. when it isn't really broadband - most people will believe it; (b) they can continue to milk the public as badly as they do now for as long as there is no competition (probably years to come still, since the SNO already stated they won't start a price war), and (c) should there ever appear true competition years from now, and they suddenly need to offer true broadband 'like everyone overseas has', they will be in an excellent position to isntantly capture nearly the entire market by simply 'flipping a switch' to change the pricing model of their ADSL-based service to a reasonable one, because everyone will already be on "Telkom ADSL".

Actually, it's pretty clever ... they get to hedge all their bets at no risk,continue raping the economy, and still maintain a dominant position. All I can say is, lube up, and don't expect a broadband offering from Telkom anytime soon.
 
Telkom has the ability to supply ADSL currently to 2%, but real broadband penetration is only 0.2% (10% of ability). If they have the ADSL ability at 15%, do they seriously expect penetration at 1.5%?

No ways, it was already too expensive for 99.8% of the population before November 1. Now it is becoming too expensive for 99.9% of the population.

Who will pay for their infrastructure expansion to supply 15% of the population with broadband. I smell a massive government subsidy (funded by the 2% of the population actually paying tax) going towards Telkom all in aid of making broadband available to the masses as per presidential directive.
 
problem is unless access to international cable is changed they will forever have the strangle hold on everyone and indirectly control prices.
 
Oh, for some way to educate the public about broadband, compared to teklom's fraudband...

Just think: 192kbps, contention ratio 1:20 (conservative?), leaves you less than 10kpbs at peak time! Shucks! I get at least 44kpbs on dial-up!
 
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