Telkom’s retail Internet service provider, Telkom Internet, has launched two new uncapped promotions, Do Gaming and Do Movies, that offer users uncapped capacity to selected services, whether or not their existing subscription is uncapped. The promotions run until
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It’s an old joke from the days when the so-called second national operator (SNO) was announced, oh, somewhere in the mists of time around 2003. This fixed-line competitor to Telkom was supposed to provide competition in landlines. The SNO gag appeared in countless headlines
The stage is set for an epic showdown between South Africa’s telecommunications operators. This Friday, telecoms regulator Icasa will publish draft call termination regulations outlining its position on further cuts to termination rates and the introduction of asymmetry for smaller players
Telkom’s chief financial officer, Jacques Schindehütte, has bought R6m worth the telecommunications shares on the open market. The move comes on top of a R1m purchase of Telkom shares in July. The latest move by Schindehütte will come as reassuring news to Telkom
Despite its precarious financial situation, South Africa’s fourth mobile operator, Telkom Mobile is in a “prime position” in wireless broadband compared to rivals Vodacom, MTN and Cell C thanks to a huge chunk of radio frequency spectrum it has access to that allows it to build a fast and reliable
Will Vodacom’s proposed acquisition of Neotel pass regulatory muster? That’s the question on everyone’s lips now that the mobile operator has confirmed that it is in exclusive talks with a view to buying its smaller rival, which is majority controlled by India’s Tata Communications
Vodacom and Neotel have finally confirmed what the market has known for some time: that they are in discussions regarding a potential acquisition by the mobile operator of Tata Communications-controlled operator. The two parties say the talks revolve around Vodacom
Telkom group CEO Sipho Maseko has vowed to fight local-loop unbundling (LLU), saying the telecommunications operator’s shareholders shouldn’t be “prejudiced unfairly” by “subsidising” competitors that don’t want to invest in their own infrastructure. “Telkom has been trampled over for quite a
Telkom’s annual general meeting got off to a bang on Friday after controversial former chairman Jeff Molobela withdrew his bid to be re-elected as the director, accusing the company’s board of violating due process. The move comes after Telkom’s board took the unusual step of
In an effort to arrest declining revenues and remain competitive, Telkom is slashing costs wherever possible, including cancelling newspaper and magazine subscriptions, scrapping its “gift and flower policy”, doing away with bottled water and water coolers and limiting staff travel costs.