In what was clearly a very carefully worded speech delivered at the annual Satnac conference on Monday, Telkom Group CEO Nombulelo Moholi hinted there could be a solution to delivering broadband to all South Africans on a “sustainable basis” for the
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A request from the Financial Services Board (FSB) has placed Rockland Investment Management, an investment firm into which Telkom’s retirement fund (TRF) put R60m, under provisional curatorship. The TRF invested about R60m with
JSE-listed telecommunications operator Telkom has begun rolling out fixed broadband connections offering speeds of up to 40Mbit/s on a trial basis in selected areas in Gauteng, Durban and Cape Town. The pilot, which will run until
Democratic Alliance MP and shadow communications minister Marian Shinn has reiterated her call for the public protector to investigate allegations surrounding the ICT Indaba held earlier this year and alleged conflicts of interest involving
Copper theft increased in the month of July, from R17,9m to R19,7m, the SA Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) copper theft barometer indicated on Wednesday. This was the first monthly increase in the series since the recent spike of R34,7m in March, Sacci said
After cabinet scuppered Telkom’s plan to sell 20% of its equity to Korea’s KT Corp, it tasked communications minister Dina Pule with reporting back to it within three months about the options available to the partly state-owned company. If she’s going to meet cabinet’s deadline, Pule must report back to cabinet
Fixed-line operator Telkom on Friday kicked off a six-week-long upgrade programme that will result in the speeds it offers to users of its broadband digital subscriber line (DSL) services being increased. From Friday, customers with the company’s 1Mbit/s DSL service will have their line speeds automatically upgraded to 2Mbit/s. However
It’s not often I find myself cheering when reading through government documents, but I did just that last week as I took in the plan’s revised proposals for the information and communications technology sector. Here, in black and white, a government commission has laid out many
Australia’s mega broadband project, the National Broadband Network (NBN Co), has snapped up a top Telkom executive as its new head of network operations. Liesel Ramjoo, Telkom’s managing executive for network core operations, will leave the operator next month to take up the position at NBN Co. She has worked for
US President Barack Obama’s former White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is reported to have said, when confronted with the 2008 financial crisis: “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you