Tonic for Telkom and consumers

Hey - relax stoke - it's imminent!
i.e. our great grandchildren may benefit if all goes well!
 
They're still thinking up clever excuses not to make their products affordable. Mark my words, they'll be just as expensive and crappy as Telscum.
 
The recent run in Telkom's share price - up from R148 in late January to R161,50 in early February - might in part be attributable to the realisation that it could benefit. But it might also be because some investors believe the market has been undervaluing the company.
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Or just fattening up for the results in March, similar trend last year.
 
If the cellphone to Telkom rates drop, it would make even more sense to dump your Telkom phone and only keep a cellphone.

One can do a lot of cellphone calls for R100 odd a month called "line retal".
 
cheaper cell calls in SA = Snow in summer

Taylor says if interconnect costs come down by 15% to 20%, he'd expect all the networks to drop their tariffs by a similar margin. His concern, however, is that if Icasa forces rates down too much, this could discourage further investment by the mobile networks and the country won't remain at the forefront of technology.
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How many multi-billions does it take, oh but it may discourage further investment. Pleaze.

"The forefront of technology." There's an oxymoron if ever there was one.
 
This was designed to give the mobile industry a leg up when it was thought subscriber numbers would only reach 500 000 in 10 years. But the gap hasn't closed.
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Say wha...?
 
NaZKuL said:
what? why? how?:confused:
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I may be totally wrong here...

Least cost routing works because a device/service decides whether it is cheaper to route a call over the Telkom network or over a cellular network.

This works because of the price difference between the cost of calls from, say, telkom to cell vs cell to cell. The least cost routing people work in this margin. Company rents/buys a 'device/service' because the cheaper calls will pay back the cost over time.

One of the [-]excuses[/-] reasons for the higher cost of Telkom to cellular calls has been given as the high termination charges for fixed line calls on the cellular networks.

Soooo, if the termination charges are reduced, the Telkom-cell call cost could fall, the margin would be less or nothing, so why would anyone have a 'clever device' any more? So an impact on least cost routing people...

Not an expert in the field, but is okay as far as it goes? Anyone?
 
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