Vodacom, MTN revolution

I wonder to what extent Neotel have caused this and subsequently have shot themselves in the foot? Basically they took so long to actually start providing a service that their customers have starting to do it themselves.

By the time Neotel sends out its first advert, its customers will say no thanks we did ourselves already. and then Neotel will have nobody to sell to?
 
All this positivity is making me sick!

We all know how these companies do business, collude and steal from the poorest, force up interconnect rates to such a level that no new players can enter the market, introduce "Value Added Services" rather than reduce their prices and basically rob us blind while we stand around watching!

When they launch their ADSL offering I can guarantee that it will not be cheap at all!
 
No matter what happens with regards to neotel, so far I think the consumer are far better off because of them. Thing are on the move and there's hope again
 
Gru said:
No matter what happens with regards to neotel, so far I think the consumer are far better off because of them. Thing are on the move and there's hope again
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I fully agree! What I meant to say was that if Neotel had been faster to get off they would only have had one competitor - Telkom. Now they gonna have multiple fixed line competitors. All the better for us, the consumer. :D
 
So long my telecoms bills are over R1000 including voice, and broadband and by broadband I mean unrestricted access can shape away if they like, I consider this a robbery. 20 kilometers off the beaten track or not.

Are you completely disconnected form the concept that radio signal requires no infrastructure to travel other than the air and transmission station?

So yeah clap clap, well done her have a noddy badge Vodacom and MTN for ripping us off whilst making us feel good about your selfs.


Excuse me whilst i go and womit
 
DblD said:
So long my telecoms bills are over R1000 including voice, and broadband and by broadband I mean unrestricted access can shape away if they like, I consider this a robbery. 20 kilometers off the beaten track or not.

Are you completely disconnected form the concept that radio signal requires no infrastructure to travel other than the air and transmission station?

So yeah clap clap, well done her have a noddy badge Vodacom and MTN for ripping us off whilst making us feel good about your selfs.


Excuse me whilst i go and womit
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Do you have any idea of what 1 tower/Base station costs ?

:rolleyes:
 
Good article. Maybe not exactly what people on this forum wants to hear .
 
no need to worry telkom will survive... :D
 
P o s i t i v i t y (+)

So yeah clap clap, well done! Here have a noddy badge :) Vodacom, :) MTN, :) CellC and :) VM for doing what you did, and is still doing, whilst making us feel good about your selfs.

What about more positivity about things? Unless you realy still want to be charged R40/MB while being one of the first in the world to be using HSDPA? :cool:

:D
 
ld13 said:
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Unless you realy still want to be charged R40/MB while being one of the first in the world to be using HSDPA? :cool:

:D
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You're being charged R40/MB for HSDPA? - I recommend switching to a different service provider.
 
ld13 said:
So yeah clap clap, well done! Here have a noddy badge :) Vodacom, :) MTN, :) CellC and :) VM for doing what you did, and is still doing, whilst making us feel good about your selfs.

What about more positivity about things? Unless you realy still want to be charged R40/MB while being one of the first in the world to be using HSDPA? :cool:

:D
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I remember those days /shudder :eek:
 
ic said:
You're being charged R40/MB for HSDPA? - I recommend switching to a different service provider.
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Pitbull remember those days. Don't you ic? ;)

See it like this. This page would have cost you about R9 to load. :eek:
 
ld13 said:
ic said:
You're being charged R40/MB for HSDPA? - I recommend switching to a different service provider.
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Pitbull remember those days. Don't you ic? ;)

See it like this. This page would have cost you about R9 to load. :eek:
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Unless my memory is extremely defective, no, I do not remember a time when people in SA were being charged R40/MB for using HSDPA.

Perhaps you meant R40/MB for using GPRS? - at a time when EDGE was not even available yet in SA, nor was vanilla-3G and certainly not HSDPA...
 
ic said:
Unless my memory is extremely defective, no, I do not remember a time when people in SA were being charged R40/MB for using HSDPA.

Perhaps you meant R40/MB for using GPRS? - at a time when EDGE was not even available yet in SA, nor was vanilla-3G and certainly not HSDPA...
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HSDPA/Edge/GPRS+/GPRS same "Pap" different "sous" ... either way. Yes he was referring to GPRS
 
Let's hope that Vodacom and MTN spend their billions in profit on useful projects which will benefit us all, like building competing fixed-line infrastructures, driving down the price of bandwidth in South Africa and of course dropping the cellular rates.
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Now why would they do that then? There are SLK500s to be had first...
 
I was referring to the fact, that we could've still be charged at rates such as R40/MB for using [insert chosen flavour of "sous"], if they did not grow, expand, move forward with the times..
 
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