Telkom’s group chief operating officer, Brian Armstrong, says the telecommunications operator is a changed company, one where customer service is not an afterthought but the top priority. “Telkom went off the boil in terms
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Duncan McLeod
Duncan McLeod is founder and managing editor of TechCentral. With more than 30 years of experience in technology journalism, he has worked for and contributed to a range of publications, including the Financial Mail, the Sunday Times and the Financial Times.
With the imminent launch of its first commercial fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) offerings, Telkom is planning to shake up the way Internet service providers sell broadband on its fixed-line network as well as the way consumers buy fixed broadband services
Government will still require the inclusion of a control system based on encryption in the set-top boxes South Africans will need to watch digital terrestrial television. That’s the word from telecommunications and postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele
The Sat-3/Wasc/Safe cable is being given a substantial upgrade. The system, which runs from Europe to South Africa via West Africa and from South Africa to Southeast Asia, has been upgraded from 420Gbit/s to 920Gbit/s in the northern segments
Telkom wants to deploy fibre to 25 000 homes by the end of March 2015, its group CEO, Sipho Maseko, said in Port Elizabeth on Monday. Speaking at Telkom’s annual Satnac technology conference, Maseko said the company’s fibre-to-the-home
Personal financial management service 22seven is ditching its monthly subscription fee. Effective 1 September, the company, which was acquired by Old Mutual in January 2013, is offering its services completely free of charge
Icasa is set to crack open South Africa’s free-to-air television industry to more competition. As South Africa moves to digital broadcasting, the communications regulator is planning to license a third terrestrial player to compete head-on with the SABC and e.tv. If it goes ahead, which
Telkom’s chairman, Jabu Mabuza, has used the telecommunications operator’s annual general meeting to defend the board’s handling of the suspension and exit of its former chief financial officer Jacques Schindehütte. Schindehütte retired from the
Communications regulator Icasa has published new regulations on digital terrestrial television. The regulations, published in the Government Gazette, are meant to promote diversity and competition in digital TV and set out how spectrum
Listed computer assembler and technology distributor Mustek has hiked its dividend per share by 40% to 28c on the back of a strong improvement in headline earnings per share and revenue. For the year ended 30 June 2014