Telkom’s new mobile business, 8ta, is stepping up the fight with rivals Vodacom, MTN and Cell C with the launch this week of five contract packages, all offering aggressive tariffs.
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Retail group Spar has teamed up with Telkom and international network optimisation company Expand Networks in a R20m deal to boost the speed of the 900 telecommunications links that connect its franchise stores.
There is growing uncertainty among senior Telkom officials about the future of the group’s chairman, Jeff Molobela. Senior Telkom sources say Molobela’s contract as chairman expired at the end of last week and has not been renewed.
Sentech looks set to close loss-making divisions, including its once much-vaunted telecommunications carrier-of-carriers division and its direct-to-home satellite television business, to focus on its core business of signal distribution.
Internet service providers have slammed Mweb’s decision to cut off its transit links, saying the company ought to have engaged in discussions instead of taking the fight to the media. Last week, MWeb cut off its transit links with Telkom’s wholesale Internet access
Cell C does not deserve an asymmetrical interconnect rate 10 years after entering the market and the decision to offer the company asymmetry is “unfair”. That’s the view of MTN SA MD Karel Pienaar, who was reacting to the news that the
Questions have been raised about the SA telecommunications and IT regulator’s complicity in allowing Global Web Intact (GWI) and Screamer to lease spectrum, apparently illegally, from Sentech. This follows the leaking of internal Sentech
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has introduced an asymmetric wholesale call termination regime that benefits smaller market players, including Cell C, Neotel and Telkom’s 8ta.
Faulty neon lighting on the Telkom Tower in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, is believed to be the cause of a fire that damaged to the structure’s giant soccer ball on Friday morning. The telecommunications company erected the ball earlier this year to mark the 2010 World Cup.
We decided to do things differently this week and record at our usual time. In this episode Simon Dingle is joined by Tribeca’s Nic Callegari and Steven Ambrose from World Wide Worx. They discuss Telkom’s 8ta, Nokia’s N8, Microsoft’s TechEd, Windows Phone 7, Apple Mac OS X Lion, the new MacBook Air, gaming trends, and much more