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Telkom’s mobile operator, 8ta, on Thursday dropped a bombshell on its rivals, unveiling by far the country’s most aggressively priced mobile broadband specials to date. Analysts have welcomed the move, saying they think Telkom is acting rationally

Telkom’s mobile operator, 8ta, surprised the telecommunications industry and consumers on Thursday, launching the most aggressive mobile broadband special offers the SA market has seen to date. But how does its pricing stack up against its rivals?

Telkom’s new mobile operator, 8ta, has dropped a bomb on rivals Vodacom, MTN and Cell C, introducing a cut-rate broadband product offering 10GB of data a month for R199 on a 24-month contract. For an additional

Telkom’s mobile operator, 8ta, will double the number of base stations active in its network in the next nine months, increasing population coverage from 25% now to between 35% and 40% by the end of the first quarter of 2012

In this week’s post-Youth Day show, Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson discuss Telkom’s results presentation on Monday, looking at the ongoing troubles at Multi-Links in Nigeria and 8ta’s latest subscriber numbers. They also chat about IBM’s centenary, the

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 not often the CEO of a JSE-listed company walks onto a stage in front of analysts and investors dressed in jeans and a button up shirt with no tie or jacket. But that’s exactly what Pieter Uys did on Monday

Telkom’s new mobile operator, 8ta, will introduce per-second billing for prepaid customers from 15 May. Until now, calls were billed per-minute. “All new prepaid customers will be billed on a

First National Bank’s Internet service provider, FNB Connect, will offer its subscribers free access to YouTube for two months, effective until the end of June, in a sign of increasing competition in the broadband market

TalkCentral episode 34 is good to go. In this week’s pre-Easter long weekend special, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Candice Jones talk about Telkom’s Jeffrey Hedberg to join Craig Venter’s Altech as group chief operating officer