Telkom has appointed long-serving executive Deon Fredericks as its new chief financial officer with immediate effect. He had been acting in the position since October 2013 following the suspension of former CFO Jacques Schindehutte, who stepped down recently. Fredericks has acting as CFO
Wireless Internet service provider iBurst has launched BusinessLink, a symmetrical wireless broadband offering aimed at business users. Delivering speeds of…
South Africa’s third mobile operator, Cell C, will oppose the proposed mobile network sharing deal between Telkom and MTN. “Cell C has been asked to comment on the proposed transaction by the
Public protector Thuli Madonsela has been asked to investigate several city of Johannesburg officials for allegedly interfering in a metro police probe involving Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko, Business Times reported on Sunday. Madonsela’s spokesman Oupa Segalwe told
Over the past 20 years, Telkom has been through the wringer. It’s been abused by politicians and by greedy foreign investors, and it’s made spectacular strategic and operational mistakes that have cost it billions. But somehow, through all of this, it’s arrived at a point today under
In this analysis-packed episode of TalkCentral, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about the decision by President Jacob Zuma to direct the Special Investigating Unit to probe alleged corruption and maladministration
Residents of the upmarket Johannesburg suburb of Parkview, following in the footsteps of nearby Parkhurst, are pushing ahead with their plans to build a fibre-to-the-home network in their suburb. The Parkview Residents Association on Thursday said it had issued a request for proposals
Dimension Data Middle East and Africa chairman Andile Ngcaba has called on communications regulator Icasa and government to ensure that high-demand spectrum in the so-called “digital dividend” bands and at 2,6GHz are
A Telkom store at Kolonade Mall in Montana, Pretoria, has become the latest electronics and telecommunications store to be hit in a wave of robberies taht have affected such outlets in recent weeks. The Kolonade store was robbed on Tuesday evening of electronic goods worth over
Telkom’s group chief operating officer, Brian Armstrong, says the telecommunications operator is a changed company, one where customer service is not an afterthought but the top priority. “Telkom went off the boil in terms
