Telkom rules!

[rpm]

http://myblogs.co.za/?p=57

An interesting take on Telkom & the MyADSL Conference.

 

[theVictorian]

What a moron.

"Market forces"? There are no market forces on a parastatal.

 

[Silent_Bob]

ok article IMHO

 

[JStrike]

Really good article

 

[ZuBS_]

How do we change such a large company from within, the only thing that will change Tekom's outlook is loss of revenue, i.e some Competition

 

[MaD]

It's crap IMHO way too idealist

 

[Sneeky]

What Gabbahead said in the comments probably sums it up well.

Handle it? Yes. Stand for it? Not a chance.

Telkom may rule now, but as with all empires they will crumble, sooner or later and the very technologies that they are punting now are going to be directly responsible for their demise.
Once the SNO comes to town, the government will find it difficult to protect Telkom anymore or handle them with kid gloves.

 

[bwana]

Is there a setting I'm missing as I dont actually see who's blog entry this is.

 

[Turtle]

How do we change such a large company from within

You can't - the shareholders run the company! Every person in the company serves the owners of the company. Even if by some miracle you end up in a management position where change can be effected, you will be kicked out if you try to do something that will result in diminished returns for shareholders. This article is totally idiotic ... hint, don't listen to a "Communication Networks lecturer" for advice on economics! Even if he/she appears to know just enough buzzwords to sound vaguely knowledgeable. South Africa doesn't magically have 'different rules' to any other country, and we only need to look at the examples of other countries to see that creating a free market is really the only solution that will work. "Competition is not always good"? Sure, but in telecomms .. well, I wonder how it managed to work brilliantly in creating ubiquitous dirt cheap broadband in pretty much every single country where it's been introduced. Ask countries like Korea with over 80% broadband penetration if competition was a mistake.

And trying to paint Telkom as a victim? Come on, is this a joke? Yes, I'm really sure the poor suffering Telkom execs cry into their R3000 silk pillows each night and wipe their tears with R200 bills while they wonder what exactly to do with the R16million profit per day it is earning - such a "difficult position" to be in, I bet.

 

[Angstrom]

... quit your current job and fight the system from within.

Are you kidding me? This is rather a naive statement to make. I've worked within 2 huge corporates and even as the senior software developer I had as much chance of influencing company strategy as I do of finding a unified field theory.

 

[mbs]

Fellow is living in cloud-cuckoo land...

 

[nOhIwAy]

Fellow is living in cloud-cuckoo land...

He is what he says he's not - a defeatist - but he knows that.

Christiane Amanpour once said that the only motive for EU action against Milo was the shame of their inaction - publicised by the press.

The press and you SABC have a duty to shame Telkom......

 

[pimal3]

Maybe his article's title should have two words added to it:
Telkom rules for now

The myth of changing a hide-bound profiteering monopoly from within has brought many brave men down to their knees

Hang Telkom high!

 

[pupa]

No way, true but sad and not for long anymore

I can also not see who the author or writer is. Maybe he wants to be anonymous from within the TELKOM cloud, yes that is where the perceptive view must be coming from, the ATM broadband cloud. Made nice reading only to confirm Yes there is lots more to be done. I see lately a lot of this defeatist mood creeping through. Telkom do not rule, they are protected by government, remove it and see the Giant fall like "Jannie and the bean stalk". not even his broad base would help. The broad base as TELKOM sees it will not exist overnight, unless they were fooled the consumer to contract into TELKOM for years, as who-ever I talk to I get the same story. "Telkom? I will drop them like a fly. They stole enough of my family revenue. I will leave them out of principle when competition arrives. I do not use them anymore, I only use MTN cell."
Now if I were TELKOM i will be bl@@dy scared. I think they made more foes than friends. The only reason they are in business is due to government protection and no alternative solutions, change that and see then what happens

 

[ebis]

So what is my other suggestion? Handle it! Accept the fact that these are the constraints within which we have to operate.

Never.

 

[Kalvaer]

I found it rather interesting. One thing that was mentioned there and was something I never thought of. Was how much courage those two must of had standing up there. I can imagine their knees knocking while they walked up there and it was announced that telkom was coming to the podium.

Imagine Martin Luther King walking into a KKK meeting to answer questions...

 

[AntiThesis]

There are some interesting points and it definitely took some balls for the Telkom people to stand up in front of the horde. Unfortunately, this is quite a defeatist point of view. To vastly over-exaggerate, it's like telling the Jews in Auschwitz to just accept it and live with the constraints of being gassed and killed.

Not a damn.

 

[riggs_9mmp]

How do we change such a large company from within, the only thing that will change Tekom's outlook is loss of revenue, i.e some Competition

One way to bring about loss of revenue is to stop using their services whereever possible. I'm switching to MTN, disconnecting my landline and will start using gprs packages to browse and download mail from home. still use adsl at work though, but at least it's a start.

 

[Sneeky]

One way to bring about loss of revenue is to stop using their services whereever possible. I'm switching to MTN, disconnecting my landline and will start using gprs packages to browse and download mail from home. still use adsl at work though, but at least it's a start.

Yeah you are right, and I will pay premium just to NOT use any Telkom services in my personal capacity if at all possible.

Telkoms knee jerk reaction to that will just be to increase the prices to everyone, including the companies that you choose to use, citing economies of scale and the need to recover costs as reasons for increases in the industry, or just blame it on SAIX or Father Christmas or something, not them, never.
They will bring this country to its knees before they relinquish any of their profit.
ADSL 1 Nov prices in the face of Icasa findings case in point.

 

[R4tt3xx]

Most earthlings would disagree with this alien..