Telkom Tariffs.

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<b> I saw this comment on Carte Blanche's Forum.</b>

This was Telkoms internal reaction to the Program on Sunday. Thought it would be of some interest to all.

To all employees

On Sunday 1 August, Carte Blanche broadcast a programme on Telkom during which a number of allegations were made around three issues: tariffs, staff numbers and anti-competitive behaviour. The programme did not provide an objective view and it is important to take cognisance of Telkom’s position on these issues.

Tariffs
Telkom dismisses claims by NUS Consulting that its call charges are more costly than other countries. Research by international pricing research body, Tarifica, demonstrates quite the opposite – Telkom’s call rates are in fact highly competitive and amongst the most affordable in the world.

Tarifica is recognised by the International Telecommunications Union and is used by leading communications companies across the globe for benchmarking purposes. Unlike NUS Consulting which only surveys 14 developed countries, Tarifica’s information is based on a mix of developing and developed countries, including the UK, Germany, France, Sweden, and emerging market peers Czech Republic, Poland, Mexico and Hungary. European countries alone add up to 25.

Tarifica’s latest research shows that Telkom’s call charges are internationally competitive, and that there is no substance to NUS Consulting’s contention that Telkom’s call charges are hampering the competitiveness of South African organisations.

NUS Consulting, for example, does not differentiate between the cost of peak or off-peak calls. Such differentiation is important as prices vary markedly between the two.

For instance, Telkom’s local peak-time calling charges are cheaper than those of many countries including Belgium, Switzerland, Spain and the United Kingdom. Our local off-peak call charges for a three-minute call are the fourth cheapest of the 26 countries surveyed by Tarifica, costing less than the same call in Hungary, the United Kingdom, France, Swed


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[loosecannon]

remember smoking is the leading cause of statistics and of course Tafrica was suppling data to telkom and been paid to do so .,.. im sure they wanted to do it again ...

and i find telkoms argument that we must be compared to developing countries a insult ... we have a highly developed infrustructure ... many developing countries are been reconstructed due to politcs [east block countries] war [many of the african peers] ...

the simple thing is what is the profit per employee .... if it is unacceptably high they are either ripping off the population or under paying staff ...

as a monopoly [for the purpose of developing the infrustructure] they should be making no profit untile the SNO ie put more back into the country ...

 

[kaspaas]

I don't have the time right now to do this again, but a few years ago I did a rates comparison between Telkom and is massive US and Malaysian shareholders.

The results were obvious that the foreign shareholders were lining their pockets with gold at the expense of the South African consumer.

Anybody with a few hours spare?[]



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