Number portability postponement "a disgrace"

Will you email your support for Virgin's drive to get us NUMBER PORTABILITY?

  • Yes

    Votes: 43 71.7%

  • No

    Votes: 17 28.3%
  • Total voters
    60
This is what I sent to ICASA - cc'ed to virgin
For how much longer will you allow the mobile telephone operators to hold us hostage unchallenged.

According to your website you are mandated is to "protect consumers from unfair business practices, poor quality services and harmful or inferior products" so I implore you - do your duty for the good of a nation suffering under the corporate tyranny of the telecommunications operators.

I implore you - do not entertain any requests for yet another postponement of Mobile Number Portability. Should the operators fail to deliver on time take them to task and deal with them accordingly. Fine then, suspend their licenses, just do something to prove to disillusioned nation that you do not do their bidding.
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EDIT - Can the poll be re-worded to say "Will you" instead of "Have you".
 
LOL... This is funny.. If Richard Branson cant even get our GVT to do their work.. Who are we to make any difference..???
 
I fully agree that the operators have been dragging their heels and it should have been done a long time ago. And the operators should probably be fined...

However, They are not ready.
Inter operator Testing has taken them longer than expected. In other countries (like the USA), inter operator testing was given 6 months to complete.Here, Grintek only finished the central database recently and ICASA has given the operators a month to complete all interoperator testing...Majority of blame certainly lies on the operators, but ICASA and Grintek must also be held responsible.. ICASA only delared grintek the winner of the tendor recently so they are partly to blame as well.Grintek also took their time to deliver the solution..
Mtn and vodacom want 30 november, cellc wants 30 oct. Cellc along with virgin mobile was pushing for mnp,so its not like any of the operators are ready and just trying to wait out the christmas period.
They are truly not ready yet...
 
Look if they really not ready to do the mnp then why all lies?

*me points Sir B to telkom* sic 'em sir!
 
Folks, send that letter out to all your friends in your mailbox with a link to the news story. (on MyADSL or one of the news sites to prove its legitimacy)
Please encourage them to send an email off to [email protected]
might want to copy the show of support to
[email protected]
as well.

We need more Richard Bransons in this world.
Well done old chap ;)
 
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rendan said:
I fully agree that the operators have been dragging their heels and it should have been done a long time ago. And the operators should probably be fined...

However, They are not ready.
Inter operator Testing has taken them longer than expected. In other countries (like the USA), inter operator testing was given 6 months to complete.Here, Grintek only finished the central database recently and ICASA has given the operators a month to complete all interoperator testing...Majority of blame certainly lies on the operators, but ICASA and Grintek must also be held responsible.. ICASA only delared grintek the winner of the tendor recently so they are partly to blame as well.Grintek also took their time to deliver the solution..
Mtn and vodacom want 30 november, cellc wants 30 oct. Cellc along with virgin mobile was pushing for mnp,so its not like any of the operators are ready and just trying to wait out the christmas period.
They are truly not ready yet...
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If they had allotted enough manpower it could have been completed in time.
 
guys, brandson is just trying to get everyone on his side, and make ppl think that he's really for the people, he has excellent marketing guys that saw an oppurtunity to make people feel that they are part of something bigger.

the emails we're sending HELPS ALOT to show ICASA that they cant be lazy and get away with it. But dont think for one second that he did this cos he cares, he did it cos he needs support, its just like the elections.
 
rendan said:
I fully agree that the operators have been dragging their heels and it should have been done a long time ago. And the operators should probably be fined...

However, They are not ready.
Inter operator Testing has taken them longer than expected. In other countries (like the USA), inter operator testing was given 6 months to complete.Here, Grintek only finished the central database recently and ICASA has given the operators a month to complete all interoperator testing...Majority of blame certainly lies on the operators, but ICASA and Grintek must also be held responsible.. ICASA only delared grintek the winner of the tendor recently so they are partly to blame as well.Grintek also took their time to deliver the solution..
Mtn and vodacom want 30 november, cellc wants 30 oct. Cellc along with virgin mobile was pushing for mnp,so its not like any of the operators are ready and just trying to wait out the christmas period.
They are truly not ready yet...
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With all the money these companies make they can cry me a river about how not ready they are. There were given a deadline, they missed it. Time to pay.

I hope hope they get fined a massive ammount, something that will take a very very large bite our of their asses. Its not as if these companies are operating on razor thin margins as it is.

Unfortunatly this wont happen, because in SA its only the consumer that gets screwed.
 
Gladiator said:
But dont think for one second that he did this cos he cares, he did it cos he needs support, its just like the elections.
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Branson might need support and that might well be his primary motive but in the same breath the South African consumer also needs support.
For now at least, 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend'.

I'm sure he realises that as well.
:)
 
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