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psychonymphe
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...not willing to wait for the whole switching thing to get started. And my father is convinced that when MTN moves out of SA Cell C will be the better side to bank on. Dont forget Cell C is run by some clever people!
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brix25
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On 2006-10-09 18:06:47, psychonymphe wrote:
And my father is convinced that when MTN moves out of SA Cell C will be the better side to bank on. Dont forget Cell C is run by some clever people!
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I didn't get that..you'e actually saying MTN are moving out of SA? Or you trying to say they'll be sold to one of the big telco's...Please ask your dad to join this thread...maybe he can explain.
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Kryptik
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Wasn't it about a year ago that there were rumours of MTN being taken over? I remember that the share price was hopping about like crazy... Speaking of shares, i hope that some of us are going to snap up some of those being offered by Media24...
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amawanqa
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To boldly pay what no Trekkie has paid before....
@ da brixsta, I saw this article and thought our resident Trekkie on the thread might have heard about the Christies auction of Star Trek stuff, but the prices fetched were er...out of this world... (excuse the pun.)
Sigh, it's amazing what approximately R4 466 000.00 can buy nowadays... 
Taken from
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4801631.stm :
A model of the Starship Enterprise has sold for $576,000 (£308,000) at an auction of memorabilia from 40 years of the science fiction television series.
Before the sale, Christie's auction house in New York estimated the model would sell for about $30,000 (£16,000).
The 78-inch-long (198cm) miniature of the Enterprise-D, used in the title sequences of Star Trek: The Next Generation, made its TV debut in 1987.
More than 1,000 Star Trek items were sold over three days at the auction.
Despite being a reproduction, the painted wood chair used in a 1996 episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fetched $62,400 (£33,350).
A costume belonging to the original series' Dr McCoy was sold for $144,000 (£77,000).
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mario2004
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Yeah, you've got a point there  . I see the 'troublemaker' ( C/Town airport) has been released on 5000 Rand bail. I am curious - did any of the 'British citizens' read anything in the local news papers about a South Africa consul been declared 'persona nongrata' because he dried to interfere with the justice system? Apparently both of his sons where involved in some illegal activities (I believe the 16 years old robbed someone of a mp3 player - knife yielding) Huh and those are the Consul's children? In German we have a saying 'Der apfel fehlt nicht weit vom baum' . In English should be something like - The apple does not fall far from the tree - 
'Better govern our selfs the wrong way, then be governed by 'others' the right way.'
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francoislr
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@ brix, fashion tv and cnn you say? Bother, if it was BBC i might have considered. I take my american news as i take medication: TIMEly. But for a decent balanced view BBC is great in the need of wit and humour. Besides, all those bloody americans are tossers,the bloody lot of them!
(I wonder if posts like this gets picked up by intelligence...probably does)
@ psycho, cell c have never really struck me as brilliant and clever, so let me share my thoughts and opinions quickly. A smart move, the most brilliant advertising campaigne. But it is the Ad reps who come up with the idea, and a smart lady from cell c that gives the go-ahead for them.
Business sense, of the roughly 33-35million subscribers they have 2.5 million. Mtn has a little more than half of what the weasel network has. A typical strategic move from cell c would be to subtly crit the other networks, like with the network portability thing, like a cat on a bird they jumped on the thing that they were for implementing it at the set date... |
francoislr
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...and that the other fat cat networks were not. Okay, quick and witty response from them, but sometimes i sense that cell c is more of a in joke than a company that is proving by performance, but on the other hand writing all this made of realise one thing: i dont know if i like cell c. I know i wont use them and i like their ads, but where the tyre meets the road, that is another story. I chose years ago not to make emotional choices based on advertising, but to go by the facts.(not sold in stores Janice because its a load of crap!)
So it comes down to one of my favourite sayings: which network will you be screwed by.
To make my point, or more accurately put, to mildly massage my point of communications being a 'screw yourself' market, look at this, it is crap expensive!
http://www.goggaconnect.co.za/pri-broadband.html
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psychonymphe
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Francois. Please shut up:) Cell C is a bunch of camel eggs i know, im just trying to console myself. And their customer service reps! Dumb as...! I had to phone in 8 times yesterday til i found a smart 1. They have a list of questions with them... |
psychonymphe
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...the first1 being 'are you sure your cellphone is switched on?'. I got so angry with one of the reps, she was obnoxious and called me by a diminuitive of my first name. I lost my temper. Francois, Cell C hasnt given me any problems but for their reps!
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amawanqa
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@ Mario,
I read the article on the Dispatch's website, but didn't see it mentioned in the papers here; then again I don't follow all the papers, and I stay well away from the tabloids.
http://www.dispatch.co.za/2006/10/09/SouthAfrica/dop.html |
brix25
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Ok, where do I start...The whole "hijacking scare" was a joke that should be treated as such. I spoke to the police's spokesperson and the guy who made the threat will probably just get a fine and a suspended prison sentence.
Why can't mario2004 just be honest for once and say that "I think all black people are criminals". If you can say that I'll respect you for your honesty but for the time being stop all the BS.
@francoislr: Cell C's adverts won't make me change networks...I'm perfectly happy with Vodacom...never had issues with MTN but Cell C...they can't even send me GPRS settings OTA.
@siosal: I prefer CNN over BBC...I've always thought BBC was a bit staid and old-fashioned...maybe it's the whole BBC accent I don't get. CNN is a much better news channel.
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francoislr
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@ psycho, lol! I have no personal experience with cell c whatsoever, but then again, i probably would humour them on the stupid questions. 'is on when you are talking on the phone? Then in that case no, i think my telepathic senses logged into your mind. Yes i am just a part of your mind. I am a disembodied voice, and you seem to respond to me...' lol! I am almost tempted to buy a cell c sim now:)
@ brix, i have pissed myself at the bbc reporters. Sometimes they make the most subtle hints and these snide comments that just hits the right spot. Always been a sucker for brit humour:) i grew up on cnn, but we did not have any better. But i am out of it. I dont watch tv as such anymore. Get all the programming i want and need from the network at work, and it is without commercial breaks:) who needs more? But in the same breath, that thing that sets BBC apart for me pops up often in time magazine aswell, but in a different arena. I like my news to have a bit of fun in there aswell.
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amawanqa
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http://msxml.excite.com/info.[....]/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/417/top
Sorry for the weird link, but here's a hilarious 'dubbing' of the LOTR 3 ending. Download the 2nd LOTR clip on the search list (8.2MB) by right-clicking and selecting 'save target as.'
It's been on the net for a couple of years now, and some of you guys might have seen it before, but I still find this er... alternative LOTR ending delightful... 
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francoislr
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@ wanqa, there is also that jack black one that is slightly amusing. Have you seen it? |
amawanqa
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LMAO!!!
@ Francois, I hadn't 'till now...LOL, sporting the ring as a Prince Albert piercing of all things..eek!!
Thanks, swaer.
http://video.google.com/video[....]77596751111900112&q=jack+black
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