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Telkom on Tuesday evening confirmed union fears that a jobs bloodbath is on the cards at the telecommunications operator. Telkom said is expects to reduce its headcount by 4 400 people

Trade union Solidarity has claimed a jobs bloodbath is looming at Telkom after the operator on Tuesday briefed it about its restructuring and retrenchment plans. “At an information session in Olifantsfontein today, the telecommunications giant announced

Cell C has renegotiated its roaming agreement with Vodacom, extending its access to the latter’s 3G network. “This agreement allows Cell C to provide a seamless experience to our customers, even those in outlying areas where we have limited coverage

Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko says if Vodacom’s bid to buy Neotel is given the green light by regulators, it could make for “formidable” competition. Vodacom, which is South Africa’s largest mobile network with more

Microsoft South Africa has introduced its first sub-R1 000 smartphone. The dual-Sim Lumia 430 will cost R999 on prepaid, targeting the largest and fastest-growing segment in the smartphone market

Telkom has denied a suggestion that a new policy, which could lead to downtime for broadband asymmetric digital subscriber line switching Internet service providers, is anticompetitive. This comes after some ISPs warned their customers that

Altech has added Warner Bros to the content bouquet offered on the Node video-on-demand and home automation set-top box in a move it says “substantially extends its content library of movie and television entertainment”. Despite “lower than

A South African government tender to install 250MW of wind-generating capacity has been awarded to a consortium led by an Ireland-based wind and solar company. The award was made under the fourth round of the government’s renewable

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has decided to not to prosecute Johannesburg- and New York-listed electronic payments specialist Net1 UEPS Technologies over allegations that the