Telkom lowered prices of SAT3 cable several months ago, no price change yet

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I figure this deserves it's own topic and have people who can confirm this fact. That Telkom already lowered pricing in anticipation to SEACOM's launch ahead of time but that no ISP (MTN itself) didn't pass on these huge savings they were getting...

Discuss..
 
Mmm I thought "Ja! See, telkom b***sh****d the public again and had to remove their statements..." But then, who knows why it was removed...

Leave the post...Perhaps someone here remembers why it was removed... :)

BTW, yes, AcidRaZor, you're not invisible :) I also read about telkom having lowered prices before everyone else, somewhere in the forums.

And as you said, "that no ISP (MTN itself) passed on these huge savings they were getting..."

It is pathetic that they would rather try and b***s**t us about 5-10 year periods of further waiting for lower bandwidth costs.

Well, Openweb was first to say they would drop prices by 30% due to Seacom.

Gconnect was first to say they have dropped prices 25% by clever business strategy, without even relying on Seacom.

The way I see it, that means it is posssible to have 55% price reductions from ISPs right now... :)
 
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Telkom lowered their prices a while Back

Telkom lowered their prices a while Back to all wholesale Customers,

MTN - Vodacom - Iburst - ISP's - Cell-C - Neotel and all other wholesale clients.

Unfortunately this was kept top secret to milk you the customer.

The Big companies had no reason to drop prices as they were not going to lose customers if all agreed to maintain their high prices.

Most wholesale customers were locked into 5 year contracts with Prices similar to SEACOM's

If I were a Telecom Company i would have signed that 5 Year Contract as well.

Bandwith is never enough so i would get part of my requirements from
Telkom and the rest from SEACOM.

Not much difference in pricing so NO loss.

ITS About time that ICASA starts getting really difficult with Telecom Operators.

I hereby pledge R100 Towards a trip for All ICASA councillours to spend time with TRAI in India to learn a few things about Regulation.

TRAI only concerns themselves with Consumers ..........................
Thats their only interest........................................
Any rules or regulations made must benefit the Consumer or else it does not stand.



DXL - Team
 
Question can't we make a civial case against telkom and all of them?

or should it be agains icasa/gov
 
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Telkom will keep you tied up in court untill you run out of money...Then they win...

Unless there's a team of attorneys out there, who feel like a life long pro bono case...

Anyone...?

No one...?

Damn... :)
 
Figure this one out

80c = 160 characters make an sms = 160 Bytes

8 bits make a byte
1000 bytes make a kilobyte
1000 kilobytes make a megabyte

1-megabyte of data costs about 1c.

How much should an sms Cost You !

Lets say 4 arguments sake we add a profit of 5 times the cost


WHEN you get the answer PLEASE POST IT ON.

DXL - TEAM
 
DXL said:
80c = 160 characters make an sms = 160 Bytes

8 bits make a byte
1000 bytes make a kilobyte
1000 kilobytes make a megabyte

1-megabyte of data costs about 1c.

How much should an sms Cost You !

Lets say 4 arguments sake we add a profit of 5 times the cost


WHEN you get the answer PLEASE POST IT ON.

DXL - TEAM
Click to expand...

And remember, the cellphone networks push this sms data over a hidden sector or whatever that's free for them to use and maintain, somewhere in a doccie it highlighted this fact in the american version
 
DXL said:
80c = 160 characters make an sms = 160 Bytes

8 bits make a byte
1000 bytes make a kilobyte
1000 kilobytes make a megabyte

1-megabyte of data costs about 1c.

How much should an sms Cost You !

Lets say 4 arguments sake we add a profit of 5 times the cost


WHEN you get the answer PLEASE POST IT ON.

DXL - TEAM
Click to expand...
Or look at it this way - at a base rate of R0.80 per [peak] sms Vodacom charges R5991 per MB for SMSes.
 
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