The Competition Commission on Monday unveiled surprisingly broad-ranging, tough and radical interventions in the data services market, including a proposal that mobile operators be forced to give South Africans a free allocation of daily data.
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Long-serving Telkom executive Alphonzo Samuels will retire at the end of March 2020, the company said on Wednesday.
In its policy paper published this week, national treasury devoted considerable space to the telecommunications sector. Though many of the proposals make sense, an anachronism stuck out. By Duncan McLeod.
Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko earned total remuneration of R23.2-million in the 2019 financial year, down from R27.2-million in 2018, mainly as a result of fewer shares that vested to him in the period.
Analysts have long criticised Telkom since its entry into the mobile market in October 2010, which hasn’t come cheap. But it’s become the company’s saving grace.
Cape Town-focused fibre-to-the-home infrastructure operator Octotel said it is now the third-largest fibre provider in the country, behind Openserve and Vumatel, after reaching 100 000 homes passed.
While Telkom is cleaning up in mobile, its fixed-line business continues to feel pressure as competition bites and as the company continues to switch off wireline infrastructure. But the numbers are far from shocking.
The cut-off low pressure system that brought floods to KwaZulu-Natal this week has wreaked havoc on Openserve’s infrastructure in the region, the Telkom-owned company said on Wednesday.
While Telkom’s mobile business is a picture of good health, its fixed-line operation is looking sickly.
Fibre infrastructure provider Metrofibre Networx is getting into the Internet service provision game.