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If you have questions that you would like me to put to Ant Brooks from ISPA, please post them here...

I will be doing an interview with the man himself today and will be happy to include some of your questions in the interview. This is all work being done for our next podcast.

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I think the obvious one is his views on TelkomSA's new capping policy.

And

Telkoms plans to dominate the ISP sector as laid out in their 2005 financial report.
 
Something I'm interested in finding out is:

Lets for a moment imagine ICASA get their way (eventually) and the line rental part of ADSL is dropped by Telkom, leaving only the ISP charge for ADSL. What does he think the ADSL access charge (from the ISP's) would be to the consumer?

Also should the suggested minimum 10Gig cap be implemented and the port shaping dropped, would the ISP's filter these cost savings down to the consumer, or is it more likely that ISP's will use this as a mothod to make more money off the consumer?

In their recommendations to ICASA they suggest that "local" and "international" traffic be defined on a broader scale. From what I can read into this, they seem to want to set up the playing field so that they can include local traffic to a proxy server/VPN type system (ecuse my lack of techno knowledge) to gain international access "locally", into the "international traffic" group. (I hope this makes sense:o) He's comments on this would be interesting, I think.
 
Carlhead said:
I think the obvious one is his views on TelkomSA's new capping policy.
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Ant Brooks wrote here http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=35664&page=3:

This issue is not whether ISPA thinks TelkomInternet's offerings are fair. Indeed, unless TelkomInternet is split into a completely separate company to Telkom, it is very hard to see how TelkomInternet could ever truly operate fairly. The real issue is whether or not TelkomInternet's offerings are anti-competitive. By that, I really mean: can we make a strong case to the Competition Commission that the way TelkomInternet is selling uncapped accounts is anti-competitive. We think that the answer to that question is "No".
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From this it looks like Ant Brooks thinks Telkom SA (Pty) Ltd and TelkomInternet are 2 different entities.
 
Didn't ISPA already take Telkom to the competition commision? If so what was the outcome?

I heard a rumor here on the Forum that Telkom was fined but refused to pay, because thier operations arn't governed by the competition commision.

Who knows the facts?
 
ic, you are right and so then the complaint is against Telkom SA (Pty) Ltd and not TelkomInternet. And then there is mos a strong case: The same de facto monopoly is wholesaling per GB to ISPs and retailing 3GB uncapped. ISPs can't compete with that.
 
allyoucaneat said:
ic, you are right and so then the complaint is against Telkom SA (Pty) Ltd and not TelkomInternet. And then there is mos a strong case: The same de facto monopoly is wholesaling per GB to ISPs and retailing 3GB uncapped. ISPs can't compete with that.
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Telkom SA (Pty) Ltd <--- no such company, looked on CIPRO

Telkominternet products sold by Telkom SA Ltd, i.e. SAIX! Thus they don't purchase bandwidth per GB, therefore operating outside the bounds of fair trade.
 
allyoucaneat said:
Telkom SA Ltd, Reg no 1991/005476/06, VAT no 4680101146
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yah, that's what I said, there is no (Pty) Ltd only the Ltd listed company, the reason I said that is to make sure people understand the following:

Telkom - telephone / adsl line provider (Access Provider)
SAIX - Wholesale bandwidth provider (ISP Wholesaler)
TelkomInternet - Internet access provider (ISP)

All the same company!!!!!

How has this been alowed? Espesially considering their retail component is using it's obvious advantage to screw the other retailer who buy from the wholesaler.

it's like Rectron coming out and saying we're selling directly to the public at 20% less than the dealers can buy components.
 
I think Telkom used to be a "(Pty) Ltd" when the government was the only shareholder. When it went public it changed to a "Limited". You are right Carlhead, the 2 are not the same.
 
allyoucaneat said:
I think Telkom used to be a "(Pty) Ltd" when the government was the only shareholder. When it went public it changed to a "Limited". You are right Carlhead, the 2 are not the same.
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thanks, but all aside my point was that the supplier / wholesaler / retailer are all the same company, which is pretty unique and un-nerving!
 
Thanks guys. The interview went very well. Expect podcast on Monday...
 
antowan said:
If you have questions that you would like me to put to Ant Brooks from ISPA, please post them here...

I will be doing an interview with the man himself today and will be happy to include some of your questions in the interview. This is all work being done for our next podcast.
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Antowan, what happened? The EASSy podcast was great, but I was looking forward to hear from ISPA. Are you saving it for a later podcast?
 
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