Despite the tough economy, at least one area of business is booming. Data centres, some of them vast structures costing hundreds of millions of rand each, are popping up across the countryside. We have the free market to thank
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Things have gone awry at Telkom. It’s already facing a growing barrage of lawsuits and competition complaints, and anonymous dossiers leaked to the media in recent weeks suggest a deeper malaise. Can the group be fixed?
Telkom has an uphill battle ahead of it when it comes to unbundling the local loop. However, a company with a great deal of experience in what the process entails, BT Group (formally British Telecom), says the SA fixed-line incumbent is
Cloud computing appears to be paying off in a big way for JSE-listed IT group Business Connexion (BCX), whose two new data centres in Midrand are attracting growing interest from corporate SA. Now, as demand
Government will build 18 information and communications technology (ICT) hubs, two in each of SA’s nine provinces, over the next year as a way of bringing technology to SA’s rural poor. The plan, which will cost
Telkom acting CEO Jeffrey Hedberg says the telecommunications group is implementing a five-year plan to refocus its energy on growing commercial returns. He says despite the troubles of recent weeks, management and Telkom
Communications minister Roy Padayachie on Monday expressed concern at media reports regarding a dossier that allege “widespread corruption” at Telkom. “Padayachie is confident that the Telkom board of directors is well capacitated to deal
It has been a year of falling bandwidth prices in SA. Though it took a little time before it happened, the arrival of the Seacom undersea cable jumpstarted a downward spiral in broadband prices. With access to lower international bandwidth
Telkom dominates the latest instalment of TechCentral’s TalkCentral podcast. We look at what’s really going on at the fixed-line operator, what the dossiers mean, and what the group’s prospects are for 2011 and beyond
Telkom has been plunged into crisis following the release of damaging dossiers that accuse top management of poor decision-making and even corrupt and irregular dealings