Telkom shareholders, including the government, have voted in favour of selling the company’s masts and towers business.
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Vodacom has claimed in court papers that it has been unfairly disadvantaged by its main rival’s spectrum deals.
South Africa’s telecoms operators collectively invest more than R25-billion/year in their networks.
Shameel Joosub said planned further cuts to call termination rates will have no real impact on retail prices.
A major network outage was impacting Telkom mobile users in South Africa on Monday.
A planned new undersea cable called T4 and linking Africa, Indian Ocean islands and Asia, will improve redundancy in the region.
Four high-capacity internet cables were severed in a suspected subsea seismic event near Ivory Coast on 14 March.
To attract new customers in a tough economy, Telkom has launched a new prepaid fibre solution for R99/week.
The Association for Comms & Technology has warned government against rushing operators into switching off legacy networks.
Telkom shareholders will soon vote on a plan to sell the group’s towers and masts to a consortium led by private equity firm Actis.