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Telkom’s share price has leapt by almost 8% to R61,48 after it provided a positive quarterly update for the three months ended 30 June 2015. The quarter is the first of Telkom’s financial year, which ends in March. It said that in the three months

Telkom on Thursday confirmed that almost 2 400 employees’ applications for voluntary severance and early retirement packages have been accepted by the telecommunications operator. Most of these employees will leave Telkom today, Friday. A total of 2 393 people

Nearly 2 400 employees’ applications for voluntary severance packages have been accepted by telecommunications operator Telkom, a trade union said on Thursday. According to Solidarity

Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko has said smaller fibre providers are placing “relentless pressure” on the company’s wholesale and networks unit. This is according to an excerpt from Maseko’s strategic review in Telkom’s annual report for 2015, which

A multimillion-rand payment made to Telkom’s previously suspended chief financial officer Jacques Schindehütte has trade union Solidarity up in arms. Top executives at Telkom have seen pay hikes at the company despite the telecommunication giant’s

In a positive development for Cell C, ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has removed the mobile operator from its watch list for a possible downgrade. This comes, S&P said in a note, after Cell C

Telkom will open its telecommunications exchanges to Internet service providers using an open-access model in an effort to stimulate demand for fixed-line broadband in South Africa. “To further stimulate access to broadband, we will make making around

Former Telkom chief financial officer Jacques Schindehütte was paid R18,8m in the company’s 2015 financial year, despite leaving its employ last August, just five months into 2015 reporting period. In the year ended 31 March 2015, during which time

Executives at Telkom are taking home higher pay, while its lower level employees face job cuts and possible salary freezes. For the financial year to 31 March 2015, CEO Sipho Maseko’s total remuneration jumped to R12,3m from R11,7m in 2014, according to

Just when everyone thought the price war among Internet service providers had petered out, MWeb, one of South Africa’s largest service providers, has chopped the price of five of its capped broadband ADSL products and nine of its fibre-to-the-home