Telkom’s share price reacted positively on Friday after the telecommunications operator told shareholders that it expects both its basic and headline earnings per share for the six months ended 30 September 2014 to be at least 20% lower than a year ago. “The expected decrease in
Freeman Nomvalo, the CEO of the State IT Agency (Sita), has promised that a turnaround strategy he is leading will transform the organisation for the better, but it could take as many as four years for the project to be completed fully. He told journalists
If there’s one group of local companies that doesn’t need help, it’s our telecommunications providers. For decades, this cosy oligopoly has reaped the enormous benefits of rapidly growing new markets, from cellular telephony to data. And yet now they are whining about unfair
PricewaterhouseCoopers forecasts that 72% of South Africans will access the Internet through their cellphone by 2018. Will Cell C still be competing in this market and will these new mobile data consumers be getting bang for
South Africa’s largest mobile operator, Vodacom, has told public hearings on competition in South Africa’s technology sector that operators are being “disintermediated” by over-the-top (OTT) providers like WhatsApp. The company was presenting its views to a panel of Icasa councillors and
Telkom has become the second big operator in as many weeks to call on over-the-top (OTT) service providers to contribute a fair share for their use of South Africa’s telecommunications infrastructure. OTT players include
Telkom wants preferential access to spectrum in the digital dividend bands currently occupied by television broadcasters because historically it has not had access to sub-1GHz spectrum, while its mobile rivals have. The operator should get access to
Telkom will launch an LTE Advanced (LTE-A) network, offering next-generation mobile broadband speeds to South African consumers, before the end of the year, the group’s chief operating officer, Brian Armstrong, has announced. Speaking at a consumer broadband
Cell C will survive with or without “asymmetry” in mobile termination rates, but there is a principle involved that must be defended, the mobile operator’s CEO, Jose Dos Santos, has said. “This company will survive, irrespective of the outcome,” Dos Santos
Online video-on-demand services in South Africa will remain a relatively niche service until the cost of data connectivity falls to levels that are affordable for the mass market. That’s the view of advisory and services firm International Data Corp, which believes that despite
