This was undoubtedly the week for uncapped broadband news, with MTN, Telkom and iBurst all announcing new products. Your TalkCentral hosts, Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson, unpack all the announcements and what they mean. Also in this week’s podcast, we
Telkom’s Internet service provider, TelkomInternet, has unveiled a “bouquet” of uncapped fixed-line broadband services, starting at R219/month. TechCentral revealed the operator’s plans to introduce uncapped services on Thursday
SA’s incumbent fixed-line network operator Telkom may be planning to announce uncapped consumer broadband digital subscriber line (DSL) products on Friday, with the offerings being introduced commercially as early as next month, TechCentral has learnt from a
Telkom said on Thursday it had grown its “revenue-generating” customer base in mobile to 882 235 by the end of August, an increase of 86,3% since the start of the financial year on 1 April. At the same time, it has incurred a loss of about
Problems in its African operations outside SA, increasing competition and regulatory pressures have conspired to knock Telkom’s earnings in the six months to the end of September 2011, the telecommunications group has warned shareholders. Basic
Altech CEO Craig Venter believes East Africa remains a powerful opportunity despite the region dragging down the JSE-listed technology group’s results in the six months to the end of August. The East Africa business reported an operating loss
More than 17 years after SA’s first democratic elections, politicians are still indecisive over how to extend connectivity into rural areas and bridge the so-called “digital divide”. Government continues to concoct ideologically confused plans. Instead, it should just get
TelkomInternet, Telkom’s Internet service provider, is raising the bandwidth caps it imposes on its AllAccess customers as competition intensifies. In July, the company announced a promotion for its “data hungry” customers in which the monthly data cap on 1GB
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has set down a provisional date for hearings on local-loop unbundling, the regulatory intervention that will force Telkom to open its “last mile” of copper cables to competitors
Government has no intention of privatising Broadband Infraco, despite the company reporting a R207m operating loss in its 2011 financial year, driven in part by growing competition from private sector players. “We get this question everywhere we turn,” says public enterprises minister
