Telkom may have broken JSE listing rules when it did not notify its shareholders that two of its directors would retire from the board this month, according to Monday’s Business Report newspaper. The two, Jackie Huntley and Julia Hope, would be retiring after Telkom’s annual general meeting on 24 October
The first step towards unbundling Telkom’s local loop of copper cables into homes and businesses, is meant to happen in November. But given the terms agreed between the fixed-line operator and the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), it’s not clear whether this deadline will be met. With
Picture this: it is Thursday evening, 8pm. You have spent the past three days working flat out on a deadline for work. But it is done now and you are finally home — kicking off your shoes and sinking into the couch with your favourite dinner. Aaah. The long-awaited evening in. A wave of contentment washes
A new study shows that Zambia has the lowest cost of electricity in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, with a rate of less than US$0,40/kWh. Namibia, meanwhile, charges as much as $7,83/kWh. According to the report, Malawi and SA have roughly the same end-user tariff of $4,47/kWh and
Shameel Joosub has been back at Vodacom — now as its group CEO — for only three weeks, but already he has slashed international call rates in reaction to a similar move by smaller rival Cell C, which is now headed by former Vodacom Group
Discovery Vitality, the rewards programme owned by Discovery Holdings, has signed a deal with SA’s third mobile operator, Cell C, that will see the two companies launching VitalityMobile, allowing Vitality members to call one another for free if both are using Cell C’s network. VitalityMobile will cost
Vodacom is considering whether or not it should conclude another black economic empowerment deal, says newly appointed group CEO Shameel Joosub. However, no decisions are imminent. Joosub says Vodacom wants “harmonisation” between requirements set out in the Electronic Communications Act
Vodacom has revealed that it will launch its fourth-generation (4G) mobile broadband network in Johannesburg, Durban and Pretoria later this year. These are the same cities where MTN said earlier this week it would launch 4G. Like MTN, Vodacom
Telkom said on Friday it would extend its limited trial of 20Mbit/s and 40Mbit/s fixed-line broadband to Internet service providers (ISPs) other than its own TelkomInternet. The expanded scope of the trial won’t only benefit consumers and ISPs, but is good for the operator itself because of the nature
The stretch of land around the confluence of the M1, N1 and N3 highways at Buccleuch, north of Johannesburg, is turning into something of a corporate information and communications technology hub. Just months after mobile operator Cell C
