Gooku
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"bundle discounted voice telephony products with its broadband solutions"
Interesting !
We will wait and see what that is.....
Interesting !
We will wait and see what that is.....
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Telkom To Cut Prices
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gbos
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I hope they bring it down alot. I wonder how the unbundling of the local loop, Telkoms so-called tripple play and the introduction of the SNO will affect the price cuts?? Only time will tell. Telkom will just **** the customer again in believing its a "better" price cut, like the ADSL 'pay-per-gig' in November last year.
DragonLogos
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Telkom drops prices..... LOL
Next headline will be:
Police have lead in Five Pillar Theft – They believe that it has something to do with pigs that appear to be able to fly – In reply to the loss of the Pillars, it was discounted by many as they were crumbling anyway
Next headline will be:
Police have lead in Five Pillar Theft – They believe that it has something to do with pigs that appear to be able to fly – In reply to the loss of the Pillars, it was discounted by many as they were crumbling anyway
RoosTa
Expert Member
Mhh maybe this is their new advertising strategy?
It is not complex folks , but it has taken telkom soooo long to finally understand what we have been saying for sooo long . "The more you drop the prices , the more people will join" , seem like finally they understand a small and vital concept .
Even though they have bypassed our way of thinking to get " more customers means we make more money " we just have to understand we takes us five minutes to understand takes 5 years to explain it to telkom .
Even though they have bypassed our way of thinking to get " more customers means we make more money " we just have to understand we takes us five minutes to understand takes 5 years to explain it to telkom .
Kabal said:
perhaps, but from a sales perspective, would you rather sell 1000 apples at R10 each, or 10000 apples at R1 each profit? anybody with a brain would go for 1000 at 10 as its just so much less work for more money.
Mr Anderson said:Well I ordered ADSL192 from Telkom 2 days ago, so it SHOULD be at least another 6 months before they install it anyways!!
thats IF and only IF they dont cancel your order at 5 months
Yes but if you have 10,000 people buying your apples you can offer them other fruit too.. so with 10,000 apply buyers you offer the apple at R3 instead of R5 you will make R30,000 instead of R5,000 - and you can offer those extra 9,000 customers other things like bananas or pears or whatever else is on the shelf - more money for slightly more effort.albert123 said:
This is why operators are diversifying and starting to lower prices, get a larger captive audience and start offering things like IPTV, video on demand etc etc. One cannot sustain apple sales in a market where apples are getting bigger and costing less, because people will always buy larger, cheaper apples from someone else.
The more customers you have the more potential you have to sell stuff to them. And the more they can save on price the more they can spend on your other services, give or take.
Business Ec never even taught me that, just good old common sense
MaD said:Yes but if you have 10,000 people buying your apples you can offer them other fruit too.. so with 10,000 apply buyers you offer the apple at R3 instead of R5 you will make R30,000 instead of R5,000 - and you can offer those extra 9,000 customers other things like bananas or pears or whatever else is on the shelf - more money for slightly more effort.
This is why operators are diversifying and starting to lower prices, get a larger captive audience and start offering things like IPTV, video on demand etc etc. One cannot sustain apple sales in a market where apples are getting bigger and costing less.
The more customers you have the more you can sell to them. And the more they can save on price the more they can spend on your other services, give or take.
Business Ec never even taught me that, just good old common sense
true true but in telkoms case if you are the only one selling big red apples then its a matter of, make 1000 apples, sell 1000 apples, whether its at 50c each or R5 each.
anybody have any idea when "later this month" is? like later in march as in march 2006 or 2007?
It's enough to put one off apples altogetheralbert123 said:
They will probably announce price cuts when they think that they've damaged IS's reputation enough and can steal a big enough chunk of their customers while they make their ADSL service suck..
April probably would be a fair guess..ic said:
ja look if you are right i will wait forever for a price reduction. i mean will it ever look better than bad?
ic said:Which is partially my point - how many price reductions have there been since the last price increase on 2005-11-01? - none - bcos Telkodemonopolies has been looking bad ever since 2005-11-01
PS: In reality there haven't been any price reductions bcos Telkodemonopolies is maximising its profit before the potential effects of competition hit - in other words I was joking about the waiting to look not as bad
well as i would only like a price increase if it comes down to i can have faster line for same price as 512k now, otherwise i wont see benefits as i dont pay my adsl account
krycor said:
perhaps telkom's reached their cap so they couldnt send the press release out till 1 april.
ettubrute
Expert Member
And April 1 is fooling day...
ettubrute said:And April 1 is fooling day...
they better make it worth my while cause i discovered mininova.org and now i seriously have a lack of bandwidth
(I'm duping a post to another thread but . .) I feel they should abolish the 192 and 384 (IMO they're an affront to the term broadband). Then they should lower the cost of the 512 down to at least the level of 192 and introduce a 2mbs service.