The Competition Commission has referred its findings of abuse of dominance against Telkom to the Competition Tribunal for adjudication, it…
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In the world of telecommunications, you get awful regulators and you get bloody awful regulators. Fortunately, SA has only had awful regulators. The US, Europe and other unfortunates have had bloody awful regulators. In the US, they destroyed one of the greatest companies in the world and issued hundreds of wireless licences with too little spectrum. In Europe, they managed almost to bankrupt credible telecoms operators with horrendously
The number of liquidations in the first nine months of 2009 increased 25,9% compared with the first nine months of…
Moody’s Investors Service on Monday downgraded Telkom following the sale and unbundling of its 50% stake in cellular network operator…
One of the things I love about the IT industry is the constant hype. There is always some new idea or silver bullet that will fix everything. The hype can provide endless hours of amusement and it can be great fun to watch the clash of the old with the new, the believers versus the Luddites. And of course it provides great mental exercise — deconstructing the hype, trying to understand it, trying to debunk it and trying to see where the hype is real.