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| 201173 | 2003-12-17 10:06:00 | The first rule of a successful business (believe it or not) is to find ways of increasing the market share of your business and making BIGGER profits. Telecom is not the Salvation Army |
Baldy (26) | ||
| 201174 | 2003-12-17 11:36:00 | > The first rule of a successful business (believe it > or not) is to find ways of increasing the market > share of your business and making BIGGER profits. > > Telecom is not the Salvation Army :O Baldy! What a novel idea ;). Now how does that work in language I can understand. Let me see..... Advance apologies to any vehicle distribution specialists in the audience. "Hey Mr car shark, how much is that old banger in the back corner over there" "Hey that's my c.." hmmm... " Kiddo have I got a deal for you, hows about you give me $100,000.00 for that there vehicle" "Gee, I don't know, is it worth that much?" "Sure it is kiddo, and I'll tell you what, I'll even throw in the cost of the tow truck to get it to your place and I can put in a good word with the tire shop next door as well. Now what's your pin number kiddo?" "1234 Sir" Little Johnny new he was getting a fair deal because many years ago, when the family could afford an internet connection, he used to like playing online games with his pal's. One day a truck delivered their monthly bill from Telecom and when Johnny sneaked a peak at the bottom line he almost fainted with fright. But his dear old dad told him it was only fair as Telecom had many mouths to feed and their main mission amd very highest priority was to ensure that the people who had invested in Telecom made a fair return on their investment and the executive bonuses needed to come from somewhere as well. Now this struck little Johnny as being perfectly reasonable and he never forgot it. Which of course made him very popular in the business community. The moral of the story is that most business' has as it's primary purpose, to make a profit. Given the opportunity and the right conditions they will maximise that profit to the hilt. If they have to tread on a few people on the way they will if there is no resistance or regulatory control that says otherwise. There are exceptions and most small businesses can't operate in this way. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 201175 | 2003-12-17 11:43:00 | if xbox sells pretty well telecom would be making profits if they made a dedicated xbox plan... if 50gig a month is too much maybe they should charge like a $1 every 500-600mb or something they would be making a bit of money that way too... ihug has these plans that if u go on it and u exceed it then they have a $ limit on excess time used... so if they did $5 every 1gig used...and a cap of $100-200 a month so that kids/parents can know that the bill at the end of the month would be $200 or under... telecom doesnt have to be the salvation army, they just need to realise the rate of technology these days and try and cater for it... better adsl, and also have something for xbox live and ps2 if that comes out....they just need to improve everything basically, they are just damn lucky the lines all belong to telecom or they mite just as well be out of business now....coz i;m sure telstraclear, along with other isps would surely have some plans around... |
csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 201176 | 2003-12-17 11:50:00 | Telecom doesnt have to do or provide any of those things,they dont have to provide a fair deal,they dont have to care about there customers. They own the market,and the money is flowing there way in huge amounts. All they do is look at the cost of something,add whatever there profit is onto it and make it available.If people want that service badly enogh they will pay for it,if not,then tough,Telecom wont lower there profit margin. |
metla (154) | ||
| 201177 | 2003-12-17 19:56:00 | > Telecom doesnt have to do or provide any of those > things,they dont have to provide a fair deal,they > dont have to care about there customers. > > They own the market,and the money is flowing there > way in huge amounts. > > All they do is look at the cost of something,add > whatever there profit is onto it and make it > available.If people want that service badly enogh > they will pay for it,if not,then tough,Telecom wont > lower there profit margin. there/their........(just a pet hate ex teacher talking) I guess the question is as an individual owning a business and also a monopoly then we wouldnt do the same thing as we know in the deep recesses of our nature we would never stoop to making a profit to the maximum, but then again we may never know as monopolies are hard to come by. As a corporation which is governed by the shareholders who would demand maximum return for their investments then questions would be asked if the most profit was not obtained. However these shareholders are individuals who are also consumers who use such products. Are they not then members of the society that are being so blatantly being victimised by the evil corporations of the world. Therefore we are screwing ourselves. |
sam m (517) | ||
| 201178 | 2003-12-17 20:29:00 | >>Telecom is not the Salvation Army I thought everything is a business these days... user pays and all that stuff. |
Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 201179 | 2003-12-17 20:53:00 | Baldy's got a very good point. If you own the market, why not bend and stretch your customers to get some extra dosh outa them. Its not like there's much alternative for most. So they get a little hate-mail evey now and then, but who's made it big in this world and has the support of eveybody? We're really just guinea pigs... |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 201180 | 2003-12-18 05:39:00 | Sure Telecom can screw New Zealanders out of every last cent now, but when a little bit of competition comes along do you think anyone will still want to be with them? | flyer590 (2523) | ||
| 201181 | 2003-12-18 11:00:00 | I'm wondering if anyone else watched Home Truths on TV3 tonight. Teresa whatsername, CEO of Telecom, said they were in the tech sector. *Cough* Yeah right, Teresa; Telecom is in the utility sector. They're no better than Mercury Energy, or other such utility companies. |
agent (30) | ||
| 201182 | 2003-12-18 12:19:00 | I have no axes to grind here & no allegiances - and yes, I find the Telecom monopoly irksome. But we have in NZ an agreement (since the old Post Office days ) that constrains Telecom from charging for local calling. That is something people in most countries have to pay for & we take for granted. When that agreement was made, the Internet. its users & its bandwidths was a miniscule aspect of its operations, which were mainly to provide telephone voice links. Nowadays,it's a completely different ballgame. I suspect Telecom may be forced to make concessions on its monopoly in future, but that may well mean that we are charged for local calls from our home phones. If it comes to that sort of trade-off, computer-users may have to consider carefully how important playing games is compared with Grandma being able to afford her phone calls. Something to think about.... |
Laura (43) | ||
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