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Telkom is moving quickly to reconstitute its board of directors following government’s move at the company’s recent annual general meeting to block the election or reelection of four of its nonexecutive directors. On Friday, it announced it had appointed Leslie Maasdorp

Telkom has appointed Attila Vitai as MD of its mobile division, which includes Telkom Business Mobile and 8ta. The appointment is effective immediately. According to Telkom, Vitai “brings a wealth of experience with a successful 20-year track record of senior

JSE-listed telecommunications operator Telkom expects headline earnings per share for the six months ended 30 September 2012 to be between 78% and 83% lower than the same period a year ago. The company issued an updated

Telkom now has sufficient directors on its board to elect a new chairman. This follows the appointment of Jabulane Mabuza and Kholeka Mzondeki as directors of the telecommunications operator. Telkom’s board was thrown

Communications minister Dina Pule’s technical adviser, Roy Kruger, said on Tuesday that selling 20% of Telkom’s equity to Korea’s KT Corp would have amounted to “giving away” a fifth of “our country’s asset” and was a “rubbish” deal. He also

Communications minister Dina Pule has moved quickly to distance herself from comments made by her technical adviser, Roy Kruger, at a telecommunications conference in Cape Town on Tuesdaym saying she “learnt with regret” of his remarks

Telkom’s mobile arm, 8ta, has reached an agreement with Google to allow its customers to access the US company’s search service, its Gmail e-mail software and social networking website Google+ for free from mobile devices. The service, called

The government’s decision in August to retain two Telkom directors who small institutional investors wanted removed and vote off four independent investors has led to speculation that the purge of the board was driven by a long-term plan for the company

Telkom was losing R144/month or more on every fixed-line in service as recently as a couple of years ago and the fixed-line operator estimates that local-loop unbundling (LLU) could lob as much as R2,2bn/year off its revenue line if the regulatory intervention is introduced

There is growing mystery surrounding telecommunications regulator Icasa’s plan to begin cracking open Telkom’s copper access network into homes and businesses to the fixed-line operator’s competitors. TechCentral has learnt that there