Telkom vs. Competition

[st3ve]

me too

and every now and again I'll phone the Telkom new services number just to go HA HA HA HAHAHAHAAAAA HAAAA

 

[Highflyer_GP]

ill just switch to the SNO, for no other reason, just to simply say "i no longer support telkom"

i was thinking about the same thing. but now i'm getting worried - people will flock to SNO just because they're not telkom. and SNO wont do anything regarding their prices because the numbers are coming in. i think i'm now only going to change if they offer much lower prices and better quality services than telkom. make them work for their customers

 

[Daaru]

I thought that too, then I thought I'd actually pay extra to leave Telkom. As Telkom are under a bit of presure to keep thier market share they'd need to drop prices to retain market share. Then after another 6 months to a year. Then I'd move back.

The SNO would also need market share to get started. If everyone stayed on Telkom. The SNO would die and all we'd have is ... well Telkom. The SNO will get atleast 6 months of my bussiness just to get them started.

No one hates Telkom as a business, they're a great business. Thats why the shareholders love them. Any businesses would do what they are doing in the same situation, I mean, please, You get to milk the South African public and the regulatory body and government stand by. Hell, Why Not!

So it's the enviroment that they're\we're in that needs to change, imagine if Telkom lost 95% of the Market share just because that they're Telkom. Thats exactly what they're going to try and prevent by sucking up to myadsl and the general public. So that the people that they've milked for the past long time will remain with them?!

Bugger that, I'm out. If Telkom want to right they're woes, they've missed it. Punish them, and I'd pay for it.

 

[krycor]

1. the prices won't be drastically cheaper.. since the sno has to get money in to pay for infrastructure and does not have mutiple products to cover costs of other products while milking the masses.

2. Number retention.. would you keep your cell operator(prepaid) if the number was permenantly yours reguardless of the network oper ? For businesses .. you willing to change your number you had for 3+ yrs ?

It would be funny if they have lower rental on a adsl service with adsl 2/2+

 

[DGremlin]

Interesting thing, talking about competition.
Whilst in UK, getting DSL was very simple, see ad, order DSL, with prices as low as 15 pounds ( Monthly cost for line and ISP ). The interesting thing is BT ( British Telecom, the UK equiv of Telkom ) DSL rental was 30 pounds a month, and both teh 15 pound guys and 30 pounds DSL lines were all BT lines, with a BT guy who would arrive to install. The Service providers all rent the line from BT and Bt while not the most expensive wasn't the cheapest.

So if in the land of UK, the countries Telecom country can lease their connections ( and maintain ) for a rental far below their own offering, why not here ... barring the obvious reason ...

 

[Arcadies]

i was thinking about the same thing. but now i'm getting worried - people will flock to SNO just because they're not telkom. and SNO wont do anything regarding their prices because the numbers are coming in. i think i'm now only going to change if they offer much lower prices and better quality services than telkom. make them work for their customers

dont really care about the prices at this stage, i just hate telkom

 

[Moederloos]

2. Number retention.. would you keep your cell operator(prepaid) if the number was permenantly yours reguardless of the network oper ? For businesses .. you willing to change your number you had for 3+ yrs ?

The way I understand it, is you will be able to keep your number. There is legal work around this, and I think the cell guys have until year end to complete the work needed, (or face a "hefty" fine of R50 000 ).

Now, maybe one of the legal guys on this forum can tell us if this also works across cell networks and landlines (can my land line number be 082 xxx xxxx)? If so, what legislation is in place to protect the consumer in terms of costs? (How much is the call going to cost me?).

In fact, considering the different costs for vodacom->vodacom and mtn->vodacom as an example, the consumer will not be able to make a distiction in costs (surely their rights must be protected?) once the numbers across networks get "mixed" up. Is it not a requirement to provide a cost for a service before the service is provided (and in a transparent way)?

 

[daysleeper]

Telkom vs International

In telkom's press releases they are quote things like in line with international trends ect ect. They I came accross a company in the states called Surewest internet. (http://www.surewest.net)

This is a testimonial: 

From: Sacramento,Sacramento,CA
Contract was $59 per month (121 months)

 
: "Blazing Fast Speeds! Reliable"
: "Tech Support avg 30 min wait, staff not very knowledgable about service"
: "Still well worth the money"


I've been with Surewest for about a year now and have been VERY HAPPY with their service. Even though they advertised 10m both ways for the first nine months I was only getting on avg in the high 4's and usally with the up being the highest but was still very happy with that. I would notice others in my same zip code that were getting high 9's and wondered what the heck they were doing different from me. Then I switched out my router with a Netgear FVX 538 and Bingo my connect rate jumped straight to the upper 9's and now I'm grinning like a fat cat! (whatever the heck that looks like) 

I'm now taking advantage of the bandwidth by hosting my own Net Radio Station, www.ROCN.FM. But it's been three weeks now and we're still having problems with them getting the DNS A file correct, it seems it keeps coming back to Surewest in a reverse lookup. What can you do???... 
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So he is paying $59 = R400 p/m for a 10mbit up / 10mbit down connection. I can't see any cap!

For telkom to offer something similiar would be in "line with international trends".