From an IT and Telecoms background Sean Wheller is both an avid writer and passionate property investor. Amongst the many websites he founded is the first Property Investor Community based site in South Africa PropertyInvestorNetwork.co.za. On the IT front his passions include open source software and community. He chiefly supports Joomla and the future of self managed content websites. Through his web development company [TheWebDesignCompany.co.za], he helps small and medium size companies take control of their website content while significantly reducing costs of development. To learn more about Seans’ interests and businesses you can go to www.SeanWheller.co.za.

Vox Telecom is the only company in South Africa right now that recognized the value of a customer. 

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa recently approved a 2% increase in the prices Telkom can charge customers for telephone calls.

The new prices have been in effect since 1st of August 2008. Approval of the rate increase was a shock to the industry and analysts alike. However, most South Africans are not aware that they are paying more for telecommunications when elsewhere in the world prices are going down, not increasing.

There is no good reason for the recent increase. In recent years, South Africa's telecommunications industry has undergone a slow process of deregulation and libralization from which consumers should benefit in the form of lower costs. Telkom, it seems, does not seem to think so and continues to increase prices.

The deregulation and libralization of our telecommunications industry is however enabling more telecommunications companies to enter the market and compete directly with Telkom. Many of these companies are offering consumers more cost-effective and better services. The South African consumer is gradually becoming aware of these offerings, but many are not aware of the new choices they have.

One telecommunications company called Vox Telecom is doing just that, offering a cheaper alternative to Telkom. During “Peak Hours” Vox Telecom is 23% cheaper calls than Telkom on national calls and 16% cheaper on calls to Cellular Networks.

Product offerings at Vox are indicative of how telecommunications prices in South Africa can be reduced. Thousands of private individuals and small, micro-businesses are already using Vox Telecom as an alternative voice carrier. Many have reduced their telephone bill by as much as 50%. That's literally thousands of Rands a month.

If you want to know whether you are paying too much on your phone bills and can cut that cost by at least 50%, enter your last months telephone bill into this cost savings calculator.

It is time to take back your power and make the right choices. A few hundred Rand savings on your phone bill can go a long way to improving your cashflow. You could make extra payments or cover the recent increases on your mortgage bond, put more petrol in your car, or simply save it for a rainy day.

The point is that consumers need to be aware that they have a choice other than Telkom. There's no need for you or anyone else to be dishing out more money to Telkom just for fun. Why would you when you know you can a cheaper call service with another provider.

South African consumers are often kept in the dark about how things work. Most do not know that the telecommunications giants have inter-connected agreements which define the price a carrier pays the other to terminate a call on a network outside their own.

This means that when Cell-C, MTN, Vodacom or Telkom terminate calls on each others networks they pay each other a tarrif per minute to do so. There is literally billions of Rands exchanging hands between these companies. All of it is money paid by you, your friends, your family, co-workers or your business.

Why should this interest you?

Because only one company in South Africa has decided to give back, in other words pay back and rebate the customer, YOU, with R20c to R40c per minute from the money they are making off the other networks which was consumer money anyway (not from their own pockets).

What this means is that you, your family, friends and co-workers, company can make money back from the inter-connect tariffs set between operators. This is also called refunds or rebates on incoming calls . Whenever someone calls you, you get paid between R20c to R40c per minute . This also means that if you have more incoming calls than outgoing calls that you get paid at the end of the month, rather than having to pay out for your phone bill.

When last did you ever hear of Telkom, or another of the big 4, giving you the option to get paid on incoming calls ? Now, this option is being enjoyed by thousands of South Africans.

As a consumer you should be aware of this and as a consumer you should make a choice for what is good for you – because you pay the bills in your home or office and if you get a chance to reduce your phone bill by R500 or get a rebate of R400 that means you have almost an extra R1,000 per month your pocket .

I am sure everyone can do something with R1,000 extra in their pocket because in one year that is a massive R12,000 which you are most likely paying to Telkom or some other operator, instead of putting the money in your mortgage bond, savings, or buying a new couch, or putting toward s the  schooling and education of your children.

I suggest you check this out; you have nothing to lose here, only to gain money that should be in your pocket – not some giant company that is not listening to you anyway. Maybe R500 or maybe R12,000 per year, or an extra R1,000 per month, that you didn’t know it is yours to use.

It is time to evaluate your options calculate your Vox call savings and make the right decisions, because now you not only have the choice, but also the power to take action.

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