A total of 1 169 employees at Telkom have been affected by the telecommunications operator’s outsourcing measures, according to figures supplied by the company. In February, Telkom announced restructuring that involve it outsourcing

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Information about Eskom’s power crisis is one of the hottest topics that South Africans searched for on Google during April. According to Google’s Trends tool, “load shedding” is one of the top searches performed locally as South Africans face the

Co-location allows for a more sustainable financial model that can bolster operator revenues, take pressure off consumers and increase network penetration in underserviced areas. The telecommunications

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Telkom’s plans to cut wholesale service prices from 1 May should lead to big savings for consumers on their broadband bills, Internet Solutions MD Saki Missaikos predicts. However, it’s still too early to

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Maintenance on fibre cables in Egypt could cause slow Internet access in South Africa on Wednesday. Seacom manages a 17 000km undersea fibre broadband cable that connects to places

Telkom’s normalised headline earnings per share are expected to be between 40% and 60% higher in the year ended 31 March 2015 than they were in the 2014 financial year, the company said on