Thriving in Telkom's shadow

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Thriving in Telkom's shadow

South Africa’s telecommunication industry is so poorly structured that an industry worth several billion has sprung up in its shadows, offering cut-price calls.

The LCR or least-cost routing industry is saving businesses up to 40%, through implementing savings on the cellphone portion of their Telkom bill.......

 

[kingmonty]

Instead of Telkom lowering its call rates to take the LCR industry head-on, its response was to take the industry to court, a move that proved rather costly, according to Rousson.

Bwahahahahahahahaha. Is that a standard Telkom response?

 

[rooijan]

Overstating the obvious

"Private households can forget about installing LCR systems to save on their phone bills. One source says the cellphone portion of your phone bill would have to be at least R1 500 a month to justify the costs of installing the equipment."

File under useless info. Who needs an LCR system in the house when you can just reach for your cellphone? Doh...

 

[dominic]

non-techie question - how will LCR deal with number portability (shoud it ever be implemented)?