I challenge mr. whatever of Icasa to come look how long he will survive here in Nederland, or any European Union-country.

I am 100% certain that even the Social Welfare of any EU-country will puke him and alikes out for the worthless scum they are. They are ruining and sabotaging our beautiful country!

Racism has no place and incompetence is equally offensive!!

groeten uit Nederland :).
Michiel.

Come to South Africa and try use the internet, or try make a few calls back to Ireland. Just try, I dare you! Be sure to bring wads of cash, and do any important downloads before you leave Ireland!

Come and speak to the millions and millions of people who don’t have access to decent telephone services, or speak to an average prepaid cellphone user (who, according to Vodacom ARPU figures, can only afford to make one 35 second phone call a day). They can partially thank ICASA for this.

Joy, come and speak to the people in White River, who have to conduct all of their business and personal internet and phonescalls using cellphones, because Telkom refuses to install fixed-lines in their area (and ICASA refuses to hold Telkom to their mandate).

Joy come and speak to me, who had to fight for almost a year before ICASA took my compliant over alleged unconstitutionality of Telkom’s std terms and Conditions contract seriously. This was after ICASA had ‘lost’ or ‘misplaced’ my complaint SEVERAL times.

Report after report after report comes out detailing how the costs of telecoms in SA are crippling economic growth. Read these reports, please, that detail how Telkom’s prices alone contribute an entire percentage towards inflation in SA. Read Telkom’s submission on the originally proposed productivity factor value in the prevailing Price Cap regime, and see how ICASA allowed themselves to be bullied by this behemoth. Look at ICASA’s weak-handling of Telkom-tactics employed during the ADSL hearings.

Joy, you should speak to one of the 32 multinational corporations that the dti has said have pulled their investment out of SA due to Telkom’s prices. Then you should speak to the countless businesses who have not been able to expand their businesses internationally, due to the costs of communicating in SA. Then I suggest you speak to one of the 50 000 people who would have a call-centre job, were it not for Telkom’s pricing.

Telkom has been getting away with daylight robbery, and in the process they are seriously holding back economic growth in SA. It is ICASA’s job, their mandate, to reign Telkom in. They have not done this, and now it comes out that their ‘limited resources’ are being spent on needless ‘trips’ and car-hire upgrades, while SA suffers with a debilitating Telkom infection.