Walmart has hit the ground running following its purchase of a controlling stake in SA retail giant Massmart. Sunday newspapers carried glossy Walmart-Massmart advertisements promising discounted prices to consumers and sending a
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Telkom’s mobile operator, 8ta, on Thursday dropped a bombshell on its rivals, unveiling by far the country’s most aggressively priced mobile broadband specials to date. Analysts have welcomed the move, saying they think Telkom is acting rationally
Telkom’s mobile operator, 8ta, surprised the telecommunications industry and consumers on Thursday, launching the most aggressive mobile broadband special offers the SA market has seen to date. But how does its pricing stack up against its rivals?
The only way universal access to broadband services is going to become a reality in SA and elsewhere in the world is through a combination of regulation of pricing and spectrum allocation and sensible investment from both government
Two top ex-Telkom executives, former group CEO Reuben September and former chief financial officer Peter Nelson, are set to stage a dramatic comeback to the telecommunications industry. TechCentral has learnt from well-placed industry
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has proposed four separate models for unbundling the fixed-line local loop, which would give Telkom’s rivals access to the company’s “last mile” of copper cable infrastructure
Telkom’s mobile operator, 8ta, will double the number of base stations active in its network in the next nine months, increasing population coverage from 25% now to between 35% and 40% by the end of the first quarter of 2012
All currencies are based on trust. In the days of the gold standard, that meant trusting that paper money was backed by bullion in a reserve. Centralisation was necessary in order to prevent counterfeiting and ensure money wasn’t simply printed on a whim. Of course, experience
Founded in 1911, IBM is 100 years old on 16 June. TechCentral senior journalist Craig Wilson traces the rise and fall and rise of Big Blue. IBM was the result of a merger of four companies, engineered by a prominent financier
Telkom has pulled the plug on a plan to sell the wireless division of its Nigerian subsidiary, Multi-Links, to Visafone for US$52m and will stop funding the operation with immediate effect. Liquidation may follow. The decision to