We name the guilty men in telecoms

I'm reading this while downloading at 5KB/s. Add Telkom Internet to the list
 
I think Telkom was left out in this article.....
 
1 September 2006 South Africa's second telecommunications network operator has formally begun operations

Read more: http://www.southafrica.info/busines.../neotel_010908.htm#.Uuz_QPmSxOE#ixzz2s4yYfRgQ
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Otherwise known as the SNO.

snow job

a systematic deception; a deceptive story that tries to hide the truth. You can generally tell when a student is trying to do a snow job. This snow job you call an explanation just won't do.
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And there you have the problem. If it hadn't been a SNO job, we would have had competition and Telkom would have had to deliver. But it wasn't in the best interests of the DOC to force the SNO to deliver.

So let's just add the DOC to the head of the list.
 
rpm said:
We name the guilty men

Top 5 monopoly incumbents that keep prices high and stall market development
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The ICASA website lists about 500 entities in South Africa that have IECS and IECNS licences, many since January 2009 when the new licensing regime was launched. Surely after five or six years we should start to see some viable competition, innovative offerings, etc, from licensees other than the "big" five.
 
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