Telkom is under fire from Democratic Alliance MP and shadow communications minister Marian Shinn, who has accused the partially state-owned telecommunications operator of being “one of the main sponsors of the SA Communist Party’s 91st celebratory dinner” held at the weekend
Browsing: Telkom
Deon Liebenberg, until last week the MD of Samsung Electronics in SA, has been appointed as the head of Telkom Business Mobile with immediate effect.
Liebenberg headed up Samsung in SA for the past year. Liebenberg will report to Telkom Business MD Brian Armstrong. Liebenberg joined
Telkom’s share price touched fresh record lows on Friday after it told shareholders that its talks with Korea’s KT Corp were officially over. The counter closed down by 1,7%, reaching an all-time record low of R18,01/share at Friday’s close. In intraday
The question of what SA should do about Telkom has occupied many minds, especially since its proposed deal with Korea’s KT Corp was blocked by cabinet. Telkom’s management team put on a brave face after the deal was scuppered, saying the KT deal would
The recent piece by BMI-Techknowledge senior consultant Martyn Roetter, in response to a Convergence Partners research report on wholesale open-access wireless networks, itself deserves some reply. It goes without saying that the Convergence Partners’ research report speaks to that company’s own strategy
FibreCo, the fibre-optic telecommunications infrastructure provider co-owned by Dimension Data’s Internet Solutions, Cell C and Convergence Partners, will begin work on the next leg of its network in the next three months to link the coastal cities of East London, Cape Town and Durban. The company
When the first Xoom was launched in SA, it was touted by some reviewers as the Android tablet we’d been waiting for. But it turned out to be too heavy and too late, arriving in the country six months after the US and Europe. With the Xoom 2, Motorola’s got the form factor down pat, but lateness to market
Mobile operators are hacking and slashing data prices but Telkom’s fixed-line broadband and line rental fees are set to go up at the beginning of August. The operator desperately needs to cut costs, increase efficiency and attract new customers, but it’s caught in a dilemma: it needs to maintain its ground in a
Telkom is pushing up basic and broadband line rental fees as part of its annual tariff adjustments it files with its regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA. Monthly rental fees for its digital subscriber line (DSL) broadband products are being hiked to R165/month for
Mobile operator Cell C is in talks with Vodacom about renegotiating the 15-year roaming agreement the two companies signed in 2001. Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig says the discussions with Vodacom “are going in the right direction”, but he says he