Unbundle Telkom

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Unbundling of Telkom is only answer

Last week Telkom was a lumbering giant stumbling from one bad investment to the next. This week the listed telecommunications operator is a lumbering giant trying to dodge a R4.5-billion fine for alleged anti-competitive conduct, which it says could sink it financially.
 
Now is the ideal time to be done with Telkom. They are pretty much collapsing, best to speed the process up, nail them with the 4.5 billion, then nail them another 4.5 billion with the next anti-competitive case and force their very fast demise. At this point guvmint will be forced to unbundle Telkom's assests.
 
Yeah shaft them with a rose bush and no vaseline jar :D - just sold my house so I'm shafting them scumbags anyhow
 
I think telkom is worth more unbundled, as their assets are quite high.
Please can someone tell one of our ministers this, at least then we can use their greed and get what we want for a change :)
 
Should we use this thread or create a new thread under the appropriate sub-forum for "How would you unbundle Telkom?" ?
 
Why not discuss it here I reckon.... because it is a worthwhile dicussion to have.

I'm over the whole "die Telkom die" and "I wish telkom would collapse" posts.. purely because this is a knee-jerk reaction that is not being cognisant of the MASSIVE implications such an outcome would have on the consumer and the economy as a whole.
 
Totempole said:
This has been discussed before. Telkom should be "Unbundled" into separate Wholesale and Retail Companies. ;)
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It's not that simple. What about their International division, Trudon, Cybernest, Rossal, etc. ? Where does the wholesale / retail split start and stop? Will there be a holding company with several subsidiaries (like BT)?
 
MickeyD said:
Should we use this thread or create a new thread under the appropriate sub-forum for "How would you unbundle Telkom?" ?
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This forum has way too many sub forums already. I think a clean up is overdue.
 
This has been the obvious solution for some time. The problem with Telkom's current structure is that it consists of various businesses tied together, with cross-subsidisation between them. Voice users are subsidising data users, national links are subsidising the local loop, and the whole fixed line business is subsidising 8.ta. Add to this the fact that Telkom is nominally a private company, and hence untouchable in many ways, and is actively undermining government policy (e.g. LLU), despite being largely owned by government, and it's obvious what its owners should do.

Call Telkom's bluff, and separate the local loop into a wholesale company (like BT Openreach), and give it a mandate to provide open access to all telcos. It may also be worthwhile to sell off 8.ta at the same time, assuming anyone would buy it, since it's just going to burn cash for the next few years, which is much better spent on improving broadband infrastructure.
 
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If if they dont mind paying all the shareholders for the assets, then sure. But taking it zim style is not the answer.
 
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