Come Halloween, come Telkom's digital apartheid (M&G)

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Telkom has finally torn the fingernails off local consumers and dealt South Africa a mortal blow, in terms of communications and credibility.
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Icasa found that a variety of things that Telkom does are, at best, rank profiteering off the sweat of local citizens. So, Telkom decided to do a legal sidestep. Instead of directly increasing costs to consumers -- which would mean Icasa could step in and stop it -- Telkom has increased the cost of "its" bandwidth to resellers.
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I'm disgusted and appalled that local media -- and, more importantly, lawyers -- have not sought immediate court action to stop this financial rape of net users, which clearly puts the internet out of the reach of the majority of citizens in South Africa. This is digital apartheid.
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Ian Fraser, Sir, you deserve a medal!

This is a must read.
 
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Can you post up the entire article. It seems you have to be a subscriber or mweb member to view M&G articles online... :(
 
ant1b0dy said:
Can you post up the entire article. It seems you have to be a subscriber or mweb member to view M&G articles online... :(
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Soz didnt know, are we allowed to copy paste,,, rpm, admins?
 
ant1b0dy said:
Can you post up the entire article. It seems you have to be a subscriber or mweb member to view M&G articles online... :(
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I just viewed the article and am neither a subscriber or a m-web member
 
Oh hum .......

The ANC is protecting it's cash cow and dont give a flying **** about the people.

Maybe Ivy will read this and organise another meeting to discuss the free lunch they are receiving.
 
I'm disgusted and appalled that local media -- and, more importantly, lawyers -- have not sought immediate court action to stop this financial rape of net users, which clearly puts the internet out of the reach of the majority of citizens in South Africa.
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Quite frankly, I'm disgusted and pissed off that only dotco and webafrica seem to have tried to do something -- anything -- to prevent Nov 1 from happening.

What happened to all the other ISPs? Are they happy to help hold us down while Telkom shoves it in?
 
Bugger the ISP's, I am disgusted with our Governments inaction.

The DoC obviousely has the foresight of an amoeba when it comes to how far this sets us back. Nobody can allow this type of thing to happen unless they have a direct interest in the profitability of the monopoly concerened. It doesnt compute otherwise, Nobody can be this dumb.
 
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@O-Fritt

Dotco has a contractual disagreement with Telkom.
I think the jist of the matter is that they say Telkom allowed them to sell
the 30GB accounts.

I dont think the other ISP's were 'allowed' that and hence no further action from them.
 
Use IE

Maskie said:
I just viewed the article and am neither a subscriber or a m-web member
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I tried on Firefox and got all kinds of MWeb ****. Then I tried on IE and it opened fine.
 
I switched from IE to Opera and it opened up fine... :)

Great article. The man doesn't mince his words. :D
 
Brilliant! I'm sure everyone agrees 100% with this article.

Why dont we see these kinds of articles in major newpapers, dont they think its news-worthy? Scared of telkom maybe? Theyre always only on online news sites where readership numbers cant compare.

We need to get an article like this on the front page of the sunday times!
 
O-Fritt said:
What happened to all the other ISPs? Are they happy to help hold us down while Telkom shoves it in?
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As long as ISPs get to charge customers the Telkom price + 50% markup they dont give a damn about what Telkom charge them.
 
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Great article.. I would encourage anyone and everyone to read it..
 
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