Comments on: Interconnection talks break down (update 3)

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:42:49 +0000

“Blended rate” makes me very nervous. They could drop the off-peak rate down to just about nothing and leave the peak rate close to where it is.

By: Ivo Vegter

Ivo Vegter — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:17:25 +0000

The operators will resist price control attemps. Sadly, they’re necessary since the market isn’t free. And sadly, since the market isn’t free, consumer outrage, whether they understand the issues or not, is impotent.

I wish ICASA the best of luck, but I hold out little hope that new price control regulation to fix problems caused by 15 years of regulatory failure will make the mobile operators any less abusive of their cartel powers.

By: Allen Baranov

Allen Baranov — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:40:52 +0000

@Garth Agreed.

Thats the way of business.

“Hi guys, we want you to change your business model so you start losing tons of money. We think it will make it more fair and you will get more competition.
“Um, or what?”
“Or else we will keep bugging you to do it”
“We can live with that”
“You are pissing everyone off by not lowering the prices”
“We can live with that too.”
“It is a lot of bugging. It will go on for ages and you will get tired of it.
“Thats fine, we are making good money while you bug us. We’ll be alright.”
“…”

By: Garth

Garth — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:19:05 +0000

ICSA need to stop asking and start telling to be honest. If they just put their foot down and stop letting the operators dictate things, it might go a little better.