Uncompetitive behaviour - Telkom's ADSL PC bundle includes Telkom ISP cost

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[rburley]

Quote of the day "lightning fast 384k"
what a joke

 

[LoveDub]

Included in my monthly bill I got in the post was this advert for Telkom's PC bundle on 36 month contract.

I see the PC bundles includes Telkom's own ISP cost with the line rental. Isn't this uncompetitive as consumers don't have a choice to receive the bundle with other ISPs and why hasn't the ISPs done anything about it?

This is not anti-competitive, it's competitive. I'm no supporter of telkom, but this is very clever on their part and makes great business sense. The consumer has the option of not taking the offer (they would be stupid to do so for obvious reasons).

Same thing happens with MWeb and their contract bundles. You don't have to take the MWeb contract, but then the price of the product will go up.

Now, if everyone knew that Polka and M-Web were the same company, who would be going to M-Web? But that's something else...

 

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This is not anti-competitive, it's competitive. I'm no supporter of telkom, but this is very clever on their part and makes great business sense. The consumer has the option of not taking the offer (they would be stupid to do so for obvious reasons).

Same thing happens with MWeb and their contract bundles. You don't have to take the MWeb contract, but then the price of the product will go up.

Now, if everyone knew that Polka and M-Web were the same company, who would be going to M-Web? But that's something else...

Well the problem is that M-Web can't bundle it with ADSL line rental + phone line rental like Telkom is doing. It's not just the ISP part that is subsidizing the PC, so IMO it's uncompetitive.