Telkom announced on Monday that it will offer a variety of converged voice and data packages to consumers under the name Telkom Mix in coming months. The first offering under Telkom Mix brand includes a BlackBerry Curve 8520 with

The videogame industry’s longest-running joke has finally arrived at its painfully unfunny punchline. Duke Nukem Forever is here after 14 years in development and it feels about as irrelevant and embarrassing as a Sex Pistols reunion tour

Local-loop unbundling poses a “major risk” to Telkom, says its group CEO, Nombulelo Moholi. Unbundling will allow rival operators access to Telkom’s last mile of copper-cable infrastructure in businesses and homes. Moholi says

Telkom’s new CEO, Nombulelo Moholi, has called on industry regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), to review the need for the company to be subject to retail price controls. She argues the market is now

The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) wants the department of justice & constitutional development to relook at the Regulation of Interception of Communications Act (Rica) because of the “near-impossible burden of

Telkom has grown the number of fixed-line broadband subscribers on its network by 16,1%. At the end of March, it had 751 625 asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) subscribers, up from 647 462 a year earlier. However, the company’s share of

Telecommunications operator Telkom has increased its full-year dividend by 16%, from 125c/share to 145c/share, despite turning in disappointing financial results in the 12 months to 31 March 2011. “The ordinary dividend has been calculated

SA’s fourth mobile network operator, 8ta, had 473 604 active subscribers on its books at the end of March 2011, its parent Telkom has disclosed. Of those, the vast majority — 440 775 — are prepaid subscribers. The company had 32 829 contract

It’s a short, sharp, punchy show this week, with your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson tackling everything from Steve Jobs to Telkom’s upcoming results. Highlights this week’s podcast include a look at Visa’s US$110m acquisition

Gareth Cliff is a probably the closest thing SA has to a shock jock — which says a lot about how conservative we still are. He’s always been a polarising figure, but even those who detest him have to concede that he has influence. And a pretty wide influence at