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Thabo signs telecoms bill
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techworker
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I'm not holding my breath, I'll have my US citizenship before there's true competition here.
hj2k_x
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Lets just keep our fingers crossed. As always.
WTH is she doing there if there is outstanding business at hand here locally! Probably campaigning for Palestine, what has that to do with Telecoms I ponder? Do they,the GVT, not inform the nation where and why these Morons travel. We need to know where our money's are spend and what gain we will have in doing so!
Back to the signing'! Please move on now, everything cannot stop because Ivy is sleeping in the Pyramids, Who's her second? maybe "it" or "ET" is awake! as for her return Monday she would be tired of sleeping after the tedious trip and will need her beauty rest! for a while, she's old you know! She would probably relax another month before doing the in-box and find the signed bill if it did not disappear in the meantime!
pupa said:
There used to be a diary on the www.gov.za site. Dunno if it is still to be found. It said where everybody was when I last looked about a year ago.
http://www.info.gov.za/events/View/eventsByYear.jsp?year=2006&selMonth=4&selMonth2=Apr Must be private business or secret because she isn't mentioned. Or perhaps the diary isn't kept up to date. 
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fergus
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What are the basic highlights of this bill? Anything to look forward too?
Fantastic1
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Wow thats good news... at least he will get a Free cellphone from each network, he would love to give free phones to his family.. but he might be charged a lot for actually trying to make a call from them 
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Man I thought cows were starting to fly already. Was this why the server seemed to be offline earlier? Probably had a heart attack! Oh wait, servers don't have hearts.
Don't you dare say things like that ever again! You want this server to crash again?pupa said:
I don't believe in "at least something is happening" "step in the right direction" type of reasoning --- it's a red herring, it's flawed reasoning. Why, because it's possible to remain moving, in the right direction, on a 'journey', forever - without ever reaching the "destination". Like the story of travelling half the distance, then half the remaining distance, then again half the remaining distance etc. You're moving in the right direction but will literally never "arrive".burst said:
Only ONE thing is acceptable, and that's getting to the "destination" (in this case, a liberalised market, which we still don't have). Anything less is nothing. Any attempt by politicians or companies to portray any kind of "movement" regarding anything should be greeted with extreme amounts of skepticism and (based on experience) never given the benefit of the doubt.
If you plan to never do anything but want to placate the public, just periodically publish press releases giving the impression that you're "moving in the right direction".
oh i c Thabo found his pen. Howcome i'm not surprised that nothing actually happens once its signed? Its all so predictable that we now have to wait for someone else to make up their mind before something happens... but the likely thing to happen, is just more excuses and more delays...
dominic
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i could not agree with you more, butTurtle said:
imo the value of this legislation is that it changes the landscape we are actually moving over i.e. there is at least some solid ground underfoot for getting real progressunfortunately for real progress to be made there has to be political will as well as a progressive regulatory framework and, as yet, there is very little evidence of this
Bona Botse
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i like the headline: Thabo signs telecoms bill. not the president. not mr mbeki. not the honorable leader of sa. Thabo. thats the coolest thing ive seen this week. 
AntiThesis
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See? This is why a dictatorship is the way to go. Thabo may have signed this thing but now there's red tape and all sorts of processes that have to be gone through.
Dictator style: **** you Telkom. Your prices are hereby cut by 1000% or you all die. Thanks.
Dictator style: **** you Telkom. Your prices are hereby cut by 1000% or you all die. Thanks.
Respect is earned like Madiba, not demanded. I forget Thabo is the president as we never hear, see or get anything from him (or IVY) always traveling into Africa and Abroad! Left Zuma to run.. Ehr ..Ugg ... steal everything!imajin said:i like the headline: Thabo signs telecoms bill. not the president. not mr mbeki. not the honorable leader of sa. Thabo. thats the coolest thing ive seen this week.
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AdLo
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Thabo can like it or not but because government has dragged its feet in the last 6 years and as a result made NO progress at all regarding the digital divide he has inadvertently become the architect of digital apartheid.