Neotel - a slap in the face to consumers?

*looks around the room and sees everyone sitting on their hand* :whistle:
 
I think they are trying to tell us that they don't want residential customers, I get the hint and promise I won't be using your services
 
Well its about time neotel came to the party and gave us some cheaper internet that faster than ADSL and is uncapped but the chances of that happening in South Africa and the problem is mainly geographics. In country like China where internet is so cheap everyone live on top of each other making it cheap for a provider like telkom to give everyone access to the internet. In South Africa we are to spread apart making it expensive. To put thing in perspective take Durban. Morningside durban city centre La lucia ridge to gateway that the size of a city on china with the same population as durban Cost wise for telecom company to cover that is probely 1/10 of what it cost to cover the city of Durban as it currently is so let say china cost to get 1000 000 people connected R1billion Durban to get 100 000 connect R10 billion and ladies and gentleman dont forget teh long distances our undersea cables have to go as well.

People I hate Telkom and Neotal price is not competetive but remember we dont all live on top of each other so we gonna have to pay the price of expensive internet weather we want or not and guess what its sucks sucks sucks.
 
i don't agree as far as i'm concerned they were asked to invest in infrastructure in the country to aleviate the high cost of connectivity and once they re-coupe their investment they will make profit
they said they can do that and remain competive the even went as far as saying watch out telkom we will show u how to run a telecoms company and now where do we sit with another telkom
 
al360 said:
i don't agree as far as i'm concerned they were asked to invest in infrastructure in the country to aleviate the high cost of connectivity and once they re-coupe their investment they will make profit
they said they can do that and remain competive the even went as far as saying watch out telkom we will show u how to run a telecoms company and now where do we sit with another telkom
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They've openly admitted that they're not interested in the consumer market. They're focusing all their efforts on businesses.
 
jbaillie said:
Well its about time neotel came to the party and gave us some cheaper internet that faster than ADSL and is uncapped but the chances of that happening in South Africa and the problem is mainly geographics. In country like China where internet is so cheap everyone live on top of each other making it cheap for a provider like telkom to give everyone access to the internet. In South Africa we are to spread apart making it expensive. To put thing in perspective take Durban. Morningside durban city centre La lucia ridge to gateway that the size of a city on china with the same population as durban Cost wise for telecom company to cover that is probely 1/10 of what it cost to cover the city of Durban as it currently is so let say china cost to get 1000 000 people connected R1billion Durban to get 100 000 connect R10 billion and ladies and gentleman dont forget teh long distances our undersea cables have to go as well.

People I hate Telkom and Neotal price is not competetive but remember we dont all live on top of each other so we gonna have to pay the price of expensive internet weather we want or not and guess what its sucks sucks sucks.
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Uhmm, ok so what about the US? They are even more spread out than us, but still have competitive prices? Also, have you ever been to China? Yes, the place is huge and there are millions of people living there, but it does not FEEL that crowded because things are also quite spread out. In this case I'm talking about Beijing and not Hong Kong - Hong Kong will apply to your theory because yes, they really are on top of each other.

Anyways.. bottom line is I don't think distance is an excuse for them to rip us off. Another example I can think of is the islands in Thailand where the islands are several (hundred) km off shore from the mainland and the towns on the islands it self is also very remote. Yet, even there they have internet cafes and cheap ADSL lines everywhere..
 
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synack said:
Hands up, who's surprised?!
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Na-iem said:
*looks around the room and sees everyone sitting on their hand* :whistle:
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*checks to make sure hands are firmly in place under bum* :cool:

No matter how I look at it, Neotel is no longer interested in the man on the street. In fact, I thought they announced that they were focussing solely on medium to large business?

Bottom line is that it appears that they have unceremoniously dumped the consumer ... and in so doing, they are sending the wrong signal to any other operator thinking of doing business in SA :mad:
 
curious- do they have an online bandwidth monitor for their clients yet- or is that still only a pipe dream
 
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