WhatsApp must be investigated – MTN

“You have these players which are getting huge benefit out of an industry without making any investment. How do we level the playing fields?” chief executive Mteto Nyati told Fin24.
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“We need to find a way of working with those players because they are providing services that our customers are looking for. We just need have an arrangement that is beneficial for both parties.”
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??

This ou is a businessman?

MTN makes its cash on the data it sells. Whats app is useless without a network .... interalia MTN.

Next thing this ou will want royalties from Apple and Samsung and so on, even though the price of the phone is included in the contract??
 
I pay for my data. Surly I can use it for whatever the fsck I want to.... Or is this logic above their IQs?
 
So MTN's thinking is that WhatsApp is profiting from infrastructure that MTN built? Good grief, how stupid are they? If they truly believe this they should immediately stop supplying data services. Here's a hint for MTN: you profit from your data infrastructure due to the money people pay to use it, even for services like Whatsapp, that is the point of you building a data service. But people are not going to use it at all if you start telling them what they can and cannot use it for.
 
Same brilliant logic behind the hare brained idea to get eTolls paid for by the citizens of Gauteng. "Seems to be a popular mechanism... How can we benefit?"
 
WTF is the problem? We pay for the data that is used by those apps. WhatsApp I know compresses images and vids so the data it sends is minimal, but Telegram (which is of course simply the best out there and kicks WhatsApp in the guava), does not compress the media and so you get the full quality, but it uses more data if you send media with it.

The networks should not be complaining. These OTP guys are encouraging data usage which is what the networks want. Besides, it is not their fault that SMS priced itself out of the market.
 
I've seen some crazy **** in my time at mybb but this has got to be close to the top of the list!
 
Yea no I have seen it all

lets say MTN blocks whatsapp today for a reason they will loose more people then ever and whatsapp will give a ****
 
IdlePhaedrus said:
They tried that already (via Telkom) years ago and failed:

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/100212-how-telkom-tried-to-own-the-internet-in-sa.html
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“There were 34 public submissions – including one single page fax from a consumer which contained just a single sentence which was rather uncomplimentary towards Telkom. I don’t recall any of them supporting Telkom’s position – except Telkom’s own submission, of course,” said Brooks.
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Should send the same fax to the so called "chief executive" at EmptyN.
 
Ockie said:
The networks should not be complaining. These OTP guys are encouraging data usage which is what the networks want. Besides, it is not their fault that SMS priced itself out of the market.
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They had it good while people did not question paying R0.80+ for one packet of data. Karma is biting.
 
Imagine there was a way for WhatsApp to prevent it from working on MTN. That should teach MTN a lesson :p
 
This would be akin to Eskom bitching about electrical appliance manufacturers using their electricity - wait, they're already doing that aren't they? ...
 
What a chop, its not like the millions of mtn subscribers are paying a single cent to WhatsApp - they're paying MTN billions of rands every year though! So what's that idiot's problem??? Greedy network operators at it again!
 
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