South Africa’s big telecommunications operators are feeling the pinch of the tough economy, but financial results published in the past 10 days show Vodacom is weathering the storm better than its rival Telkom
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In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko chats to Duncan McLeod about the future of the telecommunications group. The interview touches on Telkom’s underperformance
Telkom executives have met with government officials to discuss plans to sell a 39% state-owned stake and were told that potential buyers have been identified. “They have communicated that they have
The number of fixed-line broadband subscribers on Telkom’s infrastructure has dipped back below a million, falling 1.9% year on year to end-September 2017, as competitive pressure in the
Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko said on Thursday that the newly appointed CEO of Gyro Group, the operator’s property management business, Lesiba Maloba, has been tasked with “ruthless execution” in commercialising
Investors in Telkom gave its shares a dressing down on Tuesday in the wake of continued plans by the government to sell part of its shares in the fixed-line group to fund the bail out of cash-strapped South African
It’s ironic that the two keynote addresses (from both government and Telkom) on the first day of the operator’s Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference
Telkom said government is considering various options regarding its 39% stake in the fixed-line operator as it seeks to raise cash to bail out the country’s unprofitable national airline. The state’s shares in the former
The revelation on Wednesday that finance minister Malusi Gigaba is considering selling a big chunk or possibly even all of government’s 39.3% in Telkom, at face value, is fantastic news. There is absolutely no reason for government
People forget that Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko left Vodacom in 2012 under rather strange circumstances. I won’t bore you with the details. But what he has achieved at Telkom since his appointment in April 2013 has