Watchdog sniffs Telkom prices

[rpm]

http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=6405

 

[Franna]

I can just see the end result: Telkom raises the price of the residential line rental to R132 per month to avoid the issue. We needed proper competition in the telecoms sector 5 years ago.

 

[Moederloos]

I can just see the end result: Telkom raises the price of the residential line rental to R132 per month to avoid the issue. We needed proper competition in the telecoms sector 5 years ago.

strue

 

[gregmcc]

it would surprise me if that happened.

Watchdog sniffs Telkom prices

No need to sniff - we all know what they are smelling!!

 

[Moederloos]

it would surprise me if that happened.


No need to sniff - we all know what they are smelling!!

lol - I was going to say "they are looking for the place Telkom p1ssed so they can p1ss there too".

 

[Ozymandias]

No doubt Telkom would again like ICASA to oversee matters concerning competition now that the regulator has been granted extensive powers in this area under the Electronic Communications Act.

Most lawyers approached for comment said that a successful case of price discrimination, where a dominant company charges different customers different prices for the same service, is very hard to make, because the law requires proof that the practice leads to a “substantial lessening of competition”.

Surely the criteria should be completely different when it concerns a monopoly provider of services with no competition in sight? I would have thought that the criteria would be along the lines of "abuse of its monopoly position" rather than having to prove that the practice leads to a “substantial lessening of competition”.

 

[acidrain]

...Surely the criteria should be completely different when it concerns a monopoly provider of services with no competition in sight?

I think it means substantial lessening of competition to the business owner and not telkom.

 

[Ozymandias]

I think it means substantial lessening of competition to the business owner and not telkom.

If that is the case then it would not be possible to prove because all business users have been discriminated against equally.

The Competition Commission is a statutory body constituted in terms of the Competition Act, No 89 of 1998 by the Government of South Africa empowered to investigate, control and evaluate restrictive business practices, abuse of dominant positions and mergers in order to achieve equity and efficiency in the South African economy.

 

[Tns]

it would surprise me if that happened.
No need to sniff - we all know what they are smelling!!

indeed they smell already everyone knows this and yet nothing is being done to clean the poop!