Derrick
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Multichoice is the all-powerful provider of satellite TV in SA but Telkom is gearing up to give them a run for their money. With one monopoly pitted against the other it will be interesting to see who is the toughest.
The irony is that neither company is well geared to face a truly competitive market so who knows what will become of Telkom’s foray into IPTV. Perhaps both parties will agree to join forces and screw customers over but just halve the takings or maybe they’ll don their boxing gloves and give us a show worth watching.
Currently Telkom is exploring new avenues of growing their revenue as fixed line telephony begins to decline. They’ve proven to be dismal failures in the fixed line broadband space as they seem to have forgotten that in order to grow this market they still need to install fixed lines.
Fixed line penetration is declining and unsurprisingly so is their market share as customers become impatient with their horrible customer service.
But they are still king of the telecoms pile, just not for long and in order to keep their healthy bank balance they need a new boost.
In comes triple play and IPTV.
But Multichoice doesn’t look like they are quite ready to hand over their tricks of the trade just yet having been in this game for what feels like millennia.
Unfortunately it’s a bit like watching an 80 year old man prepare to enter the ring for the fight of his life only to discover he is fighting a blind man. Both companies have long forgotten what it means to be hungry for market share.
The question is: who will win the geriatric or the blind man?
The irony is that neither company is well geared to face a truly competitive market so who knows what will become of Telkom’s foray into IPTV. Perhaps both parties will agree to join forces and screw customers over but just halve the takings or maybe they’ll don their boxing gloves and give us a show worth watching.
Currently Telkom is exploring new avenues of growing their revenue as fixed line telephony begins to decline. They’ve proven to be dismal failures in the fixed line broadband space as they seem to have forgotten that in order to grow this market they still need to install fixed lines.
Fixed line penetration is declining and unsurprisingly so is their market share as customers become impatient with their horrible customer service.
But they are still king of the telecoms pile, just not for long and in order to keep their healthy bank balance they need a new boost.
In comes triple play and IPTV.
But Multichoice doesn’t look like they are quite ready to hand over their tricks of the trade just yet having been in this game for what feels like millennia.
Unfortunately it’s a bit like watching an 80 year old man prepare to enter the ring for the fight of his life only to discover he is fighting a blind man. Both companies have long forgotten what it means to be hungry for market share.
The question is: who will win the geriatric or the blind man?