Telkom scoops Uganda Telecom

Do you think South Africans are paying (high prices) to sponsor Telkom's expansion?

  • Yes

    Votes: 13 100.0%

  • No

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Not sure.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    13
The more I think about it, the more I believe that for once, Telkom did a good job. Uganda doesn't have the best infrastructure, and I think Telkom's influence can be good in a country like that. For them, telecommunications will be heaven on earth.
 
(without reading) They obviously don't have good internet access otherwise they'd know better. Now they won't ever have good internet access. Well done Uganda, you've just been had.
 
kilo39 said:
(without reading) They obviously don't have good internet access otherwise they'd know better. Now they won't ever have good internet access. Well done Uganda, you've just been had.
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Wonder what lies and promises they made to Uganda to get the deal, As yet they have not adhered to the requirements that got them the deal as sole monopoly in South Africa, now poor Neotel have to cough up and fix what Telkom broke.
 
Just remeber that 'we' are all financing this.
Remember that R30bn Telkom plans to spend in the next 5 years, wonder how much of that goes to Uganda.
 
Now Telkom can compete with MTN and Celltel
in the Cellular industry as MTN has taken over the
telecom market with Internet access (fiber optic ring
layed around the city of Kampala), cellular provider
in over 40 towns in Uganda.

Its so crazy their that at some of the cell towers in Kampala
they have 24hr security guards.
 
Sneeky said:
Just remeber that 'we' are all financing this.
Remember that R30bn Telkom plans to spend in the next 5 years, wonder how much of that goes to Uganda.
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Pretty similar to the rest of the government's policy, Telkom = govt after all. seems SA taxpayers are supposed to subsidise the rest of Africa, as if there wasn't enough to worry about within its borders.
 
Why not dig into Uganda. After all, Telkom have us proud.
 
Uganda's population is estimated at 27m people, with less than 150 000 people said to have access to fixed-line services. Telkom's cash injection will come in handy for Ucom, as the Ugandan company has been starved of capital to roll out its expansion plans. With well over 100 000 fixed-line subscribers, the Ugandan telecoms utility is in need of close to US$75m (R5.3bn) to roll out its network expansion project.
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Forgive me, my brain was going to default in this by substituting
- 'South Africa' instead of 'Uganda';
- 'Thintana' instead of 'Telkom'; and
- 'Telkom' instead of 'Ucom'
....then I realised 'oh, it's 2007 not 1997'. The global telecoms wheel turns...if this turns out as speculated.
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Until recently, Vodacom's growth in lucrative African markets was strapped in by a prohibitive shareholders' agreement, although the restriction has been lifted.
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SA spawned a model.
 
They should just follow neotel's business plan put up a few CDMA base stations and start milking the public :)
 
27 million-strong population subscribe to mobile services.
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even they know telkom sucks, besides most of there people don't have permanent homes.if telkom had to reinstall everytime they moved....ooo boy :sick:
 
Telkom shares on the up and up, 'investors' at least seem confident.
When is the BCX decision due?
 
Sneeky said:
Telkom shares on the up and up, 'investors' at least seem confident.
When is the BCX decision due?
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The BCX share holders agreed to wait until March 2007 to see if a decision is reached. AFAIK that's the only 'date in the diary'. The deal has now to be looked at by the Competition Tribunal, as opposed to the Competition Commission - which only recommends things, doesn't actually decide anything. How long any of this will take is anyone's guess.

I think the decision is then referred to the Competition Supremo who will convene a sub-panel committee who will analyse relative merits of the decision making process....

Perhaps we could have a Survivor-esque reality TV show - 'Survivor ICT', stick all the involved parties on a remote island (control the urge just to leave them there). Make them play all sorts of silly games, 'Ivy - the tribe has spoken', and the winner gets to make the decision.

Got to be worth a shot...
 
XCentricdave said:
The BCX share holders agreed to wait until March 2007 to see if a decision is reached. AFAIK that's the only 'date in the diary'. The deal has now to be looked at by the Competition Tribunal, as opposed to the Competition Commission - which only recommends things, doesn't actually decide anything. How long any of this will take is anyone's guess.

I think the decision is then referred to the Competition Supremo who will convene a sub-panel committee who will analyse relative merits of the decision making process....

Perhaps we could have a Survivor-esque reality TV show - 'Survivor ICT', stick all the involved parties on a remote island (control the urge just to leave them there). Make them play all sorts of silly games, 'Ivy - the tribe has spoken', and the winner gets to make the decision.

Got to be worth a shot...
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ROFL, thx for the info and the funny:D A few truth serums and some medieval 'persuasion' devices could be thrown into the pot to, pretty please :D
 
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