The decision last week by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) to reduce mobile termination rates was not unexpected. What the industry didn’t expect was for the regulator to move as quickly as it has to reduce fixed-line rates
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Vodacom looked set on a collision course with its former shareholder, fixed-line operator Telkom, on Tuesday as it officially launched…
Telecommunications giant Telkom should consult labour unions before going ahead with voluntary retrenchments, Solidarity said on Monday. “The mere fact…
Listed telecommunications group Telkom has offered its management staff the opportunity to apply for voluntary severance and early retirement packages.…
Telkom has finally confirmed that it has signed a roaming agreement with cellular operator MTN. TechCentral reported a month ago…
Right, so this whole “uncapped” and “Free the Web” stuff has me a little vexed. Basically I think it is all a bit disingenuous, even bordering on manipulative. While Seacom opened the floodgates last year with falling prices for international bandwidth, the reality is that the Telkom
The arrival, finally, of relatively affordable, uncapped broadband products shows the country is making some progress in telecommunications. However, if we want to be truly competitive as a nation, we need to be thinking much bigger
The construction of a new, high-capacity undersea cable on Africa’s eastern coastline is nearing completion, with nearly 9 000km of…
Neotel is stepping up its expansion programme, with a project that will see it deploying fibre-optic infrastructure to 300 buildings,…
A full-blown price war has erupted in fixed-line broadband in SA. Internet service providers are racing to outdo each other to provide unmetered bandwidth cheaper. This is great for consumers and the economy, but it should have happened 10 years ago.