{"id":148,"date":"2007-04-09T12:29:35","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T10:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2007-04-09T12:32:10","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T10:32:10","slug":"why-is-telkom-so-anti-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/why-is-telkom-so-anti-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Telkom so anti everything?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an article in the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iweek.co.za\/\">iWeek<\/a> on the issues that the roll out of broadband in Cape Town is encountering.&nbsp; Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iweek.co.za\/ViewStory.asp?StoryID=172299\">link<\/a> to the article. (You need to be a subscriber, which is free, to read the article).<\/p>\n<p>Basically it is about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellkom.co.za\/\">Telkom<\/a> that is objecting to the awarding of the contract by the Cape Town municipality to a consortium consisting of MTN and Cornastone. The reasons <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellkom.co.za\/\">Telkom<\/a> gives is so childish ie &#8211; (1) that some old law is still in existence and only they are allowed to provide connectivity and (2) they were not informed that they did not make the shortlist. <\/p>\n<p>As Mike Brierley from MTN says<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>.. the matter illustrates Telkom&#8217;s bullying tactics ..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Come on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellkom.co.za\">Telkom<\/a>, grow up.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/telkom\" rel=\"tag\">telkom<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/broadband\" rel=\"tag\">broadband<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/cape%20town\" rel=\"tag\">cape town<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mtn\" rel=\"tag\">mtn<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/wireless\" rel=\"tag\">wireless<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/wimax\" rel=\"tag\">wimax<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an article in the latest iWeek on the issues that the roll out of broadband in Cape Town is encountering.&nbsp; Here is a link to the article. (You need to be a subscriber, which is free, to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/why-is-telkom-so-anti-everything\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Why is Telkom so anti everything?<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-africa","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}