Villain to hero

All I see in this article is a lot of "could", "might" and so on - never gonna happen !
 
Analysts agree that this is a great opportunity for Telkom and could help turn its corporate image around.
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Sorry: dream on. Telkom has been unable to stop itself from price-gouging the public, even in the face of a worsening reputation and becoming the most hated company in South Africa. Not even a fight for its own survival could root out a culture that is so pervasively entrenched. You'd have to scrap it and start over, but it's shareholders would never allow that. Especially the big ones.
 
hero: most unlikely. they could start a price war, forcing both MTN & Voda 2 drop prices. whichever way, i wouldnt willingly give my money 2 telkom...
 
I can beat all your answers with one that is both short and powerful. "No".

If they cannot even get their "main purpose in life" right, which being wired telecommunications, how are they going to manage a wireless one?
 
Telkom?

Cellphones?

They can't even do ADSL properly... I wouldn't go onto something new till I've mastered the something old.
 
froot said:
I can beat all your answers with one that is both short and powerful. "No".

If they cannot even get their "main purpose in life" right, which being wired telecommunications, how are they going to manage a wireless one?
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Maybe telkom should focus on their primary business?

But if they do go into it and that in turn forces MTN and Vodacom to drop their rates/prices/fees then I wont mind Telkom entering the market.
 
The current interconnect fee in South Africa is R1,25 and analysts predict that mobile call costs could be slashed by between 30% and 50% if it was regulated to a cost-based rate.

However, the regulator has found this task very difficult.
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This unqualified statement has me a little curious though. What exactly is the state of the interconnection regime regulation? What progress has been made, and what is the regulator finding very difficult? Does anyone know? RPM?

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Telkom become competitive? Not a hope in hell. Unless it is to kill off all the other competition so that it can start gouging the public! :rolleyes:
 
Unfortunately, Telkom have enough cash to make "whatever they want" ... happen. Even if they don't have core competencies, tech etc. -- they can buy anything they need.
 
This is stupid..
telkom wont be able to play competetively.. Why don't they just leave it to vodacom and mtn...
 
Yeah right. Telkom will surely pass any costs incurred onto their fixed-line subscribers, as always. Plus they'd still need to fix their existing services (or lack thereof) before they stop being painted the villian.
 
Compertition is good, even if it is from telkom.
So if they can do it (I have my doubts) then go for it! All the better for us.
 
I like it. Do it Teklom, I am exceedingly tired of my ADSL line paying for all of your (Teklom) profits.
It's about time you milked the idiots who use cell phones @ those ludicrous call rates that they pay.

Perhaps we'll finally get broadband priced fairly.
 
Devill said:
Maybe telkom should focus on their primary business?

But if they do go into it and that in turn forces MTN and Vodacom to drop their rates/prices/fees then I wont mind Telkom entering the market.
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Well Telkom has a ~50% stake in Vodacom. So I doubt any price drops will be in effect...
 
I think this is either good or of no impact. Good because of obvious cost savings but in the virtual case i doubt third parties will drop prices, its just not the corporate Sa attitude :-( That being said i know telkom, dont be fooled that its for the avg joe because its not! for business, large ones, having a single bill converged is a big thing. Thus this is primarilly to get that BIG contracts at first. Residential offshoots will be bonus and it gives telkom a foot up on neotel wrt handsets, the rural areas, single billing convergence etc. I wonder tho if this will drop their investment in ADSL as gsm/3g/hsdpa is lucrative at current rates and no copper line to maintain, vender techies in charge of equipnent etc. but ok, not sure if they allowed to run 3g+.
 
This theory has one MASSIVE oversight:

The interconnect rate is assymmetrical. ie. Although it costs R1.25 to terminate a call on MTN, Vodacom or Cell C networks, those networks only pay ~R0.21 to terminate to Telkom.

So MTN and Vodacom could - assuming they wanted to - drop call rates to Telkom land-lines down to a fraction of what they're currently charging.

In terms of rates to Telkom land-lines, a "Telkom Mobile" would have absolutely no advantage over MTN or Vodacom.
 
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