James Hodge of Genesis Analytics has painted a stark picture of wide-ranging anticompetitive abuses, including excessive pricing and price discrimination, allegedly committed by Telkom in the last decade. Hodge is presenting this week to the Competition Tribunal in
President Jacob Zuma’s decision to redeploy communications minister Roy Padayachie and his deputy, Obed Bapela, has drawn mixed reaction from the information and communications technology industry, with one analyst saying he was “stunned” by the move
First National Bank, which this week began offering discounted tablets and smartphones to its clients, says ultimately it would like to hand out free phones and tablets to “certain” of its customers. CEO Michael Jordaan says the bank is on a big drive to encourage
Employees bringing their own gadgets, from smartphones to tablet computers, into the companies they work for and expecting them to function seamlessly with corporate technology systems is proving to be a significant and growing challenge for IT departments
Building fibre-to-the-home networks in SA makes sense, especially when these networks are built in dense urban areas. That’s the view of a senior executive at KT Corp (formerly Korea Telecom), which is in talks to buy 20% of Telkom. A small team
The world is going digital and as it does it is dragging the media and entertainment sectors with it, whether they are prepared for it or not. PricewaterhouseCoopers’ SA Entertainment and Media Outlook 2011-2015 paints a picture of this changing landscape. The report
Telkom investors are confused. When the telecommunications company issued its trading update at the end of last month, the surprise aspect was not the further R900m loss it incurred to get mobile operator 8ta on to its feet, nor the
If Korea’s KT Corp (formerly Korea Telecom) were to take a 20% stake in Telkom, it would on balance be a positive development for the JSE-listed telecommunications operator, analysts polled by TechCentral said on Friday. Telkom told shareholders on Friday morning before the
The growing portion of total consumer spending that Telkom extracts from fixed-line subscribers for broadband access is “not sustainable”, is “not right” and needs to change, says Internet Solutions (IS) MD Derek Wilcocks. Speaking to TechCentral
Telkom was combative in its presentation at the Independent Communications Authority of SA’s (Icasa’s) public hearings on local-loop unbundling on Wednesday. The company argued that unbundling wouldn’t necessarily help SA achieve its “developmental
