Absa and Telkom are cosying up over broadband. The two companies said on Monday that they had signed a collaboration agreement in terms of which Telkom will offer Absa customers rewards when subscribing to Telkom’s broadband products. The agreement
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Sipho Maseko is a really nice guy – which makes me want to pity him over the challenge he’s taken on at Telkom. Some would say accepting the group CEO position at South Africa’s biggest fixed-line operator is like grabbing a tiger by its tail. Sooner rather than later, you get eaten
Telkom is again upping speeds for broadband digital subscriber line (DSL) users and, in some cases, is also adjusting its prices. The move comes just a day after group CEO Sipho Maseko told TechCentral that speeds of up to 10Mbit/s may soon represent the entry-level tier of broadband offered by
Telecommunications regulator Icasa’s new draft regulations on local-loop unbundling are “too vague” and “too broad” to be implementable, Dimension Data division Internet Solutions has warned in a submission on the proposed regulations. IS says that the only way to
Telkom has fired a shot over its regulator’s bow, warning the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa that if it attempts to unbundle the local loop of copper wires into homes and businesses, the telecommunications operator may have no choice but to raise its prices in
Speeds of up to 10Mbit/s may soon represent the entry-level tier of broadband offered by Telkom as the company moves to see off the threat posed by mobile broadband alternatives and as it moves to increase growth of fixed-line broadband in homes and businesses
Telkom Mobile has extended its Sim-Sonke prepaid plan to roaming partner MTN’s network, meaning subscribers can use the aggressively priced plans in many more parts of South Africa. Previously, Sim-Sonke was available only on Telkom Mobile’s network
The purchase by Telkom group chief financial officer Jacques Schindehütte of R6m worth of Telkom shares on 30 September had nothing to do with the operator’s board’s decision to suspend him on Thursday pending the outcome a disciplinary process
Telkom chief financial officer Jacques Schindehütte was offered the opportunity to resign before being suspended on Thursday, but doing so would not have been “congruent” with his “value system”. In a telephonic interview with TechCentral shortly after Telkom announced
Telkom has suspended its chief financial officer, Jacques Schindehütte, pending the outcome of a disciplinary process. “The board was recently made aware of certain allegations and appointed an independent law firm to investigate them,” the telecommunications operator says in a statement