The number of fixed lines in service has plunged below a million for the first time as Telkom continues to decommission its legacy copper network.
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The price war between fibre network operators is intensifying, with MetroFibre Networx the latest to offer significantly improved value to home broadband users.
New Telkom CEO Serame Taukobong has a challenge on his hands: the mobile growth story that underpinned the business in recent years appears to be ending.
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Openserve, the wholesale division of Telkom, has announced that it will serve as the landing station partner for Google’s massive Equiano submarine cable system in South Africa.
Telkom burned through close to R1-billion cash in the most recent six months.
The number of active fibre-to-the-home connections in Telkom’s network has leapt past the number of legacy copper connections.
Telkom has launched prepaid fibre, saying consumers who previously couldn’t apply for a broadband fibre line for credit-vetting reasons can now do so.
Telkom’s Openserve has started deploying fibre in city and suburban blocks, rather than across entire areas, in its war on copper cable theft.
Telkom’s sprawling wholesale division, Openserve, is likely to be the next unit of the telecommunications group to be listed on the JSE.