Telkom tariffs

[playkiller no.2]

Anyone read todays Sunday Times page 11 and what Telkom wants to try and charge in september.

I wish I had a scanner to show everyone.

 

[VQuest]

Haven't seen the Times. Can you give us an idea of what it says?

 

[doekvoet]

http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=2637064

 

[Debbie]

Yeah, like retype it and paste it here!

 

[fergus]

Last month Telkom warned that its core margins would stagnate this year as it faced tough competition.

Huh!? What competition!

 

[Debbie]

Please paste the content of that link here. I can't open it.

 

[Spindrift]

Here's the content.. but is it the same one as the one in the sunday times?

spindrift



http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=2637064


Telkom applies for 3% cut in overall tariffs
July 24, 2005

Telkom said on Friday that it had asked regulators for permission to cut overall tariffs by 3 percent starting next month.

Under a price control regulation imposed on Telkom, it could raise tariffs for a basket of services by 0.1 percent, but the company said it wanted to make "significant price reductions".

Price cuts for broadband internet access and international private leased circuits would be effective from August 1, while other changes would take effect on September 1, the fixed-line operator said.

Tariffs on international private leased circuits would fall by 28 percent and post-paid long-distance tariffs would decline by 10 percent. Last month Telkom warned that its core margins would stagnate this year as it faced tough competition.

Telkom shares closed up 2.1 percent at R122. - Reuters

 

[playkiller no.2]

Monthly rental for analogue line R87.05 /september R92.28 is what you could pay for.

 

[Spindrift]

hey,

so monthly rental is going up? anything coming down?

Talking about this make me wonder how telkom calculate the average price increase or decrease. Do they just treat all their offering with the same weighting even though some service is only used by relatively fewer people. In other word, do they just add up all the increase/decrease and divided by the number of products to get the average increase. I suppose this is technically the average but its extremely misleading.

Another way (i'd be impressed if telkom is doing this already) might be to work on an average bill. For example, the average bill would contain the average number of minutes a person make locally, nationally and internationally say. Every time there' s a price increase or decrease requirement - this average bill would be used to see if the requirement is met.

I doubt telkom's using the second way because my bill went up by 20% last time when telkom said its average increase was 5%. While I fully accept that i am not average, but do most people actually experience the average adjustment?

Anyone know how telkom does the calculation for this 3% decrease? This time Im sadly expecting my bill to go up even though telkom said its going down

spindrift.

 

[KillerX]

I saw this ad in the Sunday Times. Nothing new (we already know about the drop in dsl rental) Otherwise basically like 5-10c price reduction in local calls per minute (oooooh!) They have these graphs on the ad which show the ADSL price reductions. Which look pretty impressive (by themselves). Then they also have a graph that compares South Africas line rental with other countries. We are placed in the bottom 5 out of like 25 other countries - such as Sweden, france, Germany etc...


Wow all of this looks so good! Were not getting ripped off at all - YEA RIGHT! I would like to see a graph comparing DSL speeds and DSL costs with these same countries. Or comparing our ridiculous local and cellular call costs with them!

 

[fergus]

Then they also have a graph that compares South Africas line rental with other countries. We are placed in the bottom 5 out of like 25 other countries - such as Sweden, france, Germany etc...

Telkom spindoctors hard at work, no doubt.

 

[DragonLogos]

Generally prices are down, but considering that they are way too high in the first place it's more of a do about nothing. It does I believe however signal the beginning of the End

It depends on what The SNO pricing is like, one can guess that with Eskom on board it will be aggressive, Eskom are well known for their technical expertise and good prices, together with Transtel they have a impressive network in place already. Add to that spectrum broadband mains networking and you could find Telkom might have a rough ride

Also a lot of people might sign up with the SNO just for spite