Vodacom takes on Telkom

“Second, is price – we are getting good prices now, but we can't afford to be solely dependent on one provider or another. Of course we may change our mind about laying down our own infrastructure if high-quality infrastructure becomes available at better costs.”
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I wonder if the second sentence refers to Neotel?
 
There is such a conflict of interests brewing between Telkom and it's shareholding in Vodacom it's actually not funny anymore.
 
Skip said:
There is such a conflict of interests brewing between Telkom and it's shareholding in Vodacom it's actually not funny anymore.
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Looks like they might be selling their Vodacom stake though.
 
Very interesting.
The telecoms industry is most certainly not standing still any more.
 
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Ever since Vodacom & MTN & CellC were given the go-ahead by the Grim Poisonous Ivyness Creep on 2005-02-01 to self-provide their own links, I have been questioning why this has not been done - or not been done at a faster pace, it is good to see that Vodacom is finally going full steam ahead with this, and one can see why Vodacom has to put in its own base-station links etc:
According to a source the company’s data usage has more than doubled after their substantial cut in data rates a few months back. This gives an indication of the growth seen since this move.
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which means that Vodacom also has to put in more HSPA base-stations which require backhaul links, and since Telkodemonopolies seems to give a lower priority to provisioning rented backhaul links for its customers [read competitors] than Telkodemonopolies does for its own backhaul links, one can see why Vodacom simply cannot rely on Telkodemonopolies anymore for backhaul links.
 
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