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Forced ADSL line rental
ADSL South Africa (Broadband South
Africa), 5 November 2007
TrueTrue competition might have to
take a back seat again if Telkom persists in forcing subscribers to ‘…purchase an
analogue telephone service with any ADSL product’ (Forced ADSL
line rental anti-competitive?, MyBroadband, 31 October 2007).
‘The legalization of VoIP and the increased uptake of ADSL have presented ISPs with great opportunities to
offer their clients voice services that compete against Telkom’s offering. Larger ISPs like Vox Telecom and MWEB
have already launched a fully fledged voice service where subscribers can make and receive calls on their own
087 number’ (Forced ADSL line rental anti-competitive?, MyBroadband, 31 October 2007).
In other words, the legalization of
VoIP and immense growth in the uptake of ADSL Broadband have cleared the road for alternative voice service
providers to compete against Telkom.
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