This could result in the disconnection of marginal cellphone customers who made up at least 30 percent of the customer base, a Vodacom delegation led by CEO Pieter Uys said in its presentation to the committee.
At the current rate of 80c an SMS; if Vodacom make it any more expensive, they can call each other instead.
A dramatic reduction of charges was likely to have a negative impact on government policy objectives of universal access and would be disruptive to the economy and communications industry.
Um, at 80c an SMS, Vodacom sure is helping to achieve the universal access policy.
less discounts for on-net calls
Bwaaahahahahaha. Oh, the 3c a minute difference currently being offered. PAHLEAZE.
Countries that had achieved high mobile penetration levels tended to have very minimal costs of ownership, resulting in barriers affecting access to communications services being removed.
These barriers included handset costs, pervasive network coverage, SIM card costs and connection fees.
Tell you what. Let ICASA release it's restriction on who may import and sell cellular phones and then we'll talk about handset costs.
And, SIM card costs are a freaking joke. Allow us to re-use sim-cards and - hey presto, massive savings.
What on earth is pervasive network coverage? If you really have pervasive network coverage, then how-come you do not provide any guarantee's regarding network performance?
Moreover, this regime had also made it possible for mobile operators to maintain on their networks marginal subscribers who barely made calls.
80c for an sms.
The cost of providing a base station in rural areas was generally much higher compared to the equivalent in a city or town.
I'm pretty sure the land was a lot cheaper. Hey, you also could have shared the tower with a competitor.
Mobile customers in rural areas tended to receive many more calls than they made, meaning cost recovery for rural base stations roll-out was highly dependent on MTR revenue.
Well, logically then you should be trying to keep these customers on your network hey numnuts.
Where such subscribers would be accommodated on the network for some time, operators might not afford to keep connected subscribers who did not make calls if the reduction of MTRs was drastic and abrupt, Vodacom said.
So, if all the rural people are on Vodacom, and they are called by MTN, then MTN would make more money than Vodacom from these calls. So, Vodacom would then be in a position to offer the MTN clients a better deal than they get from MTN. This is called competition, something that is sorely required.
Try to pull the wool over our eyes.com.
