It seems Telkom's response to ICASA's potential regulation is to engage the PR machine and whinge, they have threatened to pull the whole ADSL service and take ICASA to court. Oh I would love to see this. These are plainly scare tactics meant to make ICASA back down, but Telkom doesn't have a leg to stand on. Removing the service will just force the the government to remove Telkom's wired monopoly, and a court case wouldn't come out in Telkom's favour. To win the case Telkom would need to show how their exorbitant pricing is necessary (but several times more than the rest of the world) which can only mean something has gone very wrong in their business, and that won't put their monopoly or share price in a good place. I would hate to see the threats to party funding going on right now :)

My favourite quote from Stephen White (*pitoosh* he has besmirched my good surname), their PR guy, is when he claimed the research carried out by one of our largest network providers, Internet Solutions, (not to mention the other 445 submissions) was conducted by "people who have never run a network".

On the up side, the anti-Telkom sentiment is rising, both the IFP and SMME forum came out against them.