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Telkom has launched its mobile offerings for business, proclaiming it will lead in fixed-mobile convergence and in cloud computing in the business market in SA and saying it is looking forward to be an “attacker” in the mobile space. Brian Armstrong

Telkom has launched its first mobile offerings aimed at the business market and is taking the fight to its rivals with aggressive introductory offers on smartphones and tablets. Telkom Business Mobile – the brand the company is using

SA’s mobile operators must do more to up their game in customer service instead of simply trying to outdo each other on price, says Vitorrio Massone, managing partner in SA at management consulting firm Bain & Company. In the past year, the operators have slashed their

Telkom is still keen to expand its operations elsewhere on the African continent despite the sensational failure of Multi-Links, its Nigerian business, says chairman Lazarus Zim. Zim was speaking at the group’s 2011 annual general meeting of

SA’s incumbent fixed-line operator, Telkom, should be considering a strategic fibre-to-the-home project to ensure customer loyalty and to grow its revenue streams in new areas, says Gartner principal analyst Will Hahn. Hahn, speaking to

BT Group is playing coy over its plans to invest significant capital in fibre-optic network infrastructure in SA, but TechCentral understands an announcement about its plans is imminent. Company executives skirted the issue at a press

To foster competition in telecommunications, it’s important that local-loop unbundling does not apply only to the fixed access lines owned by Telkom. It must also be extended to the mobile operators. That’s the view of MWeb CEO Rudi Jansen

Some of the broadband packages being offered by mobile operators are not sustainable in the short or the medium term but may become so in a few years once mobile networks based on long-term evolution (LTE) technology become more pervasive. That’s the view

Services at Telkom and the Post Office will be shut down if demands by workers are not met, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said in Johannesburg on Wednesday. Mass action by 23 000 workers was planned for the first week of September, CWU

SA’s newest cellular network, 8ta, owned by Telkom, is upping the ante in the ongoing mobile broadband price wars by offering prepaid users a data bundle consisting of 3GB of data for R149. The bundle will be available to both existing and