“Persistent” and “illegal” industrial action in the form of “go-slows” at Telkom’s call centres escalated at the weekend, with staff allegedly being intimated and employees walking out, the telecommunications operator said on Monday. This comes as Telkom announced it will
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Internet service providers have done a commendable job of bringing down the cost of fixed-line broadband in South Africa. Although the actual connection fees to Telkom remain high (thanks to Telkom’s monopoly over the “last mile” into homes), the price of uncapped and
Deploying aerial fibre, rather than burying it, will significantly reduce the cost of expanding fibre-to-the-home broadband in South Africa, greatly improving the business case at the same time
Telkom chairman Jabu Mabuza is buying a 10% stake in black-owned investment company Sphere Holdings in what the latter is…
Telkom has named the companies it intends outsourcing various noncore operations to as part of a major restructuring programme it announced in mid-February. WNS, Barloworld Logistics and Bidvest are among the companies that will take over aspects of
MultiChoice-owned Internet service provider MWeb on Monday unveiled its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) prices, which will be available to consumers who have access to Telkom’s nascent home fibre network. The announcement comes on top of MWeb’s plans to work
MTN South Africa CEO Ahmad Farroukh has echoed remarks made by Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub earlier this week that there’s a need for mobile operators to cooperate to reduce costs and improve
The market has failed to deliver broadband to all South Africans, hence government’s decision to intervene, naming Telkom as the…
Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub has called on telecommunications operators to work more closely together to reduce costs in an environment where input costs continue to rise but where prices for telecoms services continue to decline. Joosub says one
Broadband Infraco appears to be in limbo. After national treasury made no mention of the state-owned telecommunications company in its latest budget vote allocations, an Infraco spokesman has downplayed industry talk that it will soon be put up for sale. “Broadband