Telkom Media, Telkom and Neotel

Like what swap one evil with another.

Unfortunately, with the government's heavy direct involvement in the various enterprises controlling telecoms in this country, choice isn't really an option.

To achieve this, Telkom Media must divorce itself from Telkom, the hapless telephone and broadband operator, which seems to think customer service is equivalent to taking 24 hours to assemble the complex components of a bun when a burger is ordered.

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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

One can hardly wait for new telephone entrant Neotel to end the hopeless Telkom monopoly, and hope it does better, in the same way that Telkom Media wants to end the 20-year MultiChoice stranglehold on the pay television sector.

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All I hope for is that Telkom chokes to death on the irony here...

Was that article written by a 3 year old? How is it fit for publication on this site let alone the Business Report.

I'm sure the journalist was supposed to write an article with much more substance but since he/she was so sloshed their kid probably helped them with it.

What a joke. Tell me something I don't know.

Yeah, this article was very clumsily written. A bit shocking considering it came from the Business Report

Why am I not surprised that TelkodemonopoliesMedia knows it is too inefficient to become a success in less than 20 years. IMO !CASA should make the licenses expire after 4 years - if licensees aren't surviving after 4 years then they should make way for other entrants.

Telkom has a dedicated number for consumers to report faults. If the line is not engaged it rings forever. When I tried reporting a fault this week, I held on for 10 minutes and then 12 minutes, but nobody answered the damn phone. Chatting to several people, I'm not the only who thinks Telkom's service stinks.

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Yep, I gave up trying to get through on 10212 to report an analogue line being dead - must have spent more than 2 hours over several days on hold listening to Telkodemonopolies yapping about how it is sponsoring some Lie-on King production - eventually I gave up and reported the fault on Telkodemonopolies' website, I did get a fault reference number via SMS 24 hours later, and have tried requesting progress via the same fault reporting page entering that reference number I got, but the analogue line is still dead going on 2 weeks now. Luckily my ADSL line is still working...

20 years? You must be joking. However in this mishap of a country it is a sure thing. If anybody has any other recommendations that would increase the price of ICT services abd decrease the level of service delivery in South Africa please feel free to contact the DOC as soon as possible. For each additional R50,000 deposit into Ivy's personal bank account your chances of a successful application double.