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8ta, has greatly increased its subscriber numbers, but Telkom’s mobile arm continues to cost the operator billions of rand a year. The number of active 8ta mobile subscribers for the financial year ended March 2012 increased by 213,2% to 1,5m, with total subscribers now numbering slightly over 3m, 154,5% up on

In a development that must be exercising the minds of Telkom’s management team, the telecommunications operator’s revenues from data fell by 1,7% in the 2012 financial year to the end of March. Data is the fastest-growing area of the telecoms industry, so the decline in revenues is concerning

The MD of Telkom’s international operations and subsidiaries, Motlatsi Nzeku, is “retiring” from the telecommunications group, effective immediately.
The controversial Nzeku was fired by former Telkom Group CEO Reuben September in 2009 for allegedly leaking internal Telkom documents to a Sunday

Samsung Electronics’ highly anticipated flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S3, has launched in SA. The phone has been available from mobile operator Vodacom since the end of last month. Billed by some as the handset that could eat into the market share of Apple, with its iPhone 4S, the S3 is available starting

Investors have expressed keen interest in a undersea broadband cable that would link Brazil, Russia, India, China and SA (the Brics countries) to each other and the US, a promoter of the project said on Thursday. “There have been many parties showing interest in the Brics cable project. To date, a total of

Telkom services in Springs on Gauteng’s East Rand have been disrupted following multiple cable theft in the area, the fixed-line operator said on Thursday. More than 1 000 corporate and residential customers have been affected. “On Wednesday, 6 June, cable thieves broke into

Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig has made his next big move after dropping a pricing bomb on his rivals in the prepaid market. The cellular operator is introducing variable-term contracts and slashing the cost of calls for post-paid subscribers. The company is introducing six new products

Former MTN Group president and CEO Phuthuma Nhleko has again rubbished allegations that either he or the telecommunications operator paid bribes to secure an operating licence in Iran. In a statement, Nhleko says the allegations, made by Turkcell, are without foundation

Telkom has launched a mobile application for tablet computers that allows people to review its financial data. Called the Telkom Financial Reports App, the application is available for tablets running Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS operating systems and is free to download and use. The app was designed and

Communications minister Dina Pule said on Wednesday that the set-top boxes that will be subsidised for poorer households will get a “return path” to provide basic Internet access. She made the announcement at the department of communications’ ICT Indaba in Cape Town. South Africans will