Neotel ‘pleased with progress’

Who cares if they are pleased. We should be pleased! :)
 
The title should read something like

"Neotel ‘pleased with progress’ - public still dissapointed"

There was all this hype about their launch and them being "the saviour" but as a customer I've yet to see ANY direct or indirect saving on my monthly costs as far as voice, broadband ect....whether that be through my cell providers or ISP's....
 
One thing I like about Neotel, is that they're not afraid of us.

On thier website you can actually find links to this forums.

BTW, do they have a reprasentitive(?) here or not?
 
Telkom and ICASA also rate themselves pretty highly so this doesn't exactly mean much. They haven't done anything concrete yet, that's visible to the public anyway.
 
Chavez said:
There was all this hype about their launch and them being "the saviour" but as a customer I've yet to see ANY direct or indirect saving on my monthly costs as far as voice, broadband ect....whether that be through my cell providers or ISP's....
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You'll have to wait for Christmas to see savings - as promised by Ivy:D
 
I am itching to get BB but won't pay T for the privilege.
 
Progress is when I pick up my phone and dont hear telkom's dial tone. Progress is when I'm paying less for my broadband than I was the day before.

To me progress is tangible not mythical.
 
kaspaas said:
You'll have to wait for Christmas to see savings - as promised by Ivy:D
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The only problem is that according to the timetable she works on she could mean Christmas 2135. As long as Telskum lines her pockets she couldn't care less when the prices drop. Just stall and stall...
 
duderoo said:
I am itching to get BB but won't pay T for the privilege.
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Same here. But what really pisses me off is the fact that they charge 450 bucks to get you onto the exchange. If i then disconnect my broadband account, i have to pay another 450 bucks to reconnect. What bull#$%^ I mean the second time i Don't think they even have to do anything, and they still charge 450 bucks.....
Or what happens if you're going away for like 3 months and want to disconnect for that time, you have to pay an extra 450 bucks to reconnect, what bs, even someone like multichoice (who i hate more than telkom sometimes) dont do that, they reconnect for free.
 
Well, at least the sno uses the wording "pleased with progress"...

I've never heard that from the 1st-network operator. Actaully the only thing that comes out of there mouth is "pleased with monopoly".
 
Syndyre said:
Telkom and ICASA also rate themselves pretty highly so this doesn't exactly mean much. They haven't done anything concrete yet, that's visible to the public anyway.
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Should be 'Llyndal Shope-Mafole from the DoC & ICASA rate themselves pretty highly, so this doesn't exactly mean much'. :)

As the de facto fixed line monopoly, Telkodemonopolies really doesn't give a $^*@! as to how it is perceived by SA's consumers and consequently only panders to investors silly enough to invest & buy shares...:rolleyes:
bwana v.21 said:
Progress is when I pick up my phone and dont hear telkom's dial tone. Progress is when I'm paying less for my broadband than I was the day before.

To me progress is tangible not mythical.
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Yep, that would be progress, but NeOTel still does not have a tangible fixed line presence.
One of Neotel’s main strategies is to make the most of the advantages of wireless technologies which will enable them to roll out services faster and make it possible for customers to subscribe to their service easily.
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This is however not the only technology that Neotel is looking at using, and said that they are evaluating various technologies for the different services planned.
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According to a recent article, NeOTel documented its love affair with wireless CDMA in the business plan that it submitted to ICASA, in order to obtain its fixed line telecoms licence. So ICASA has allegedly known about NeOTel's CDMA plans for a long time.

My point is that SA needs more fixed line operators, and in particular, the local loop needs to be unbungled away from Telkodemonopolies, as the Second [Fixed Line] Network Operator, NeOTel is a complete and utter failure bcos it is following its fixed line mandate [licence].

Anyways, if NeOTel is evaluating WiMax, then telling consumers that, might inspire more confidence, that we consumers might not be forever stuck in the NeOTel-CDMA dark ages, and that we might get decent speeds with NeOTel-WiMax...
 
ic said:
According to a recent article, NeOTel documented its love affair with wireless CDMA in the business plan that it submitted to ICASA, in order to obtain its fixed line telecoms licence. So ICASA has allegedly known about NeOTel's CDMA plans for a long time.

My point is that SA needs more fixed line operators, and in particular, the local loop needs to be unbungled away from Telkodemonopolies, as the Second [Fixed Line] Network Operator, NeOTel is a complete and utter failure bcos it is following its fixed line mandate [licence].

Anyways, if NeOTel is evaluating WiMax, then telling consumers that, might inspire more confidence, that we consumers might not be forever stuck in the NeOTel-CDMA dark ages, and that we might get decent speeds with NeOTel-WiMax...
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Don't lose all hope. There is still some left, albeit small. :(
 
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