Convergence Partners, an investment company controlled by Dimension Data SA chairman Andile Ngcaba, wants to up its equity stake in…
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SA consumers got their first taste of a broadband price war last week when a small Internet service provider, Afrihost, slashed the price of bandwidth to below cost. It’s a promising start, but matters little until Telkom is forced to open its network to rivals. It was a ballsy move. Last week, Afrihost cut the cost of fixed-line bandwidth on broadband digital subscriber lines to just R29/GB. To put that in perspective, the average selling price for this type of bandwidth has, until now, been R50-R70/GB
SA’s mobile operators are unlikely to slash their retail call tariffs, even if mobile interconnection rates are cut dramatically. That’s…
Solidarity has asked the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) for a significant cut in interconnect fees, the trade union…
I know that this article is going shock you, but not in the way you expect, so buckle up. I have oversimplified the piece, but its essence is as true as you could wish for. The other day, I found a Telkom — in those days Posts & Telecommunications — internal “newspaper” called Postel, dated December 1982. The front page article — coincidentally written by myself at the time — described a 40% cut in international data communication tariffs based on X.75 packet-switching. Before the 40% cut, it cost, in today’s money, more than R10 000 to send 1MB of data. After the 40% cut, it cost only R6 000/MB — a bargain, with demand exceeding supply
Telkom says it cannot be blamed for slow broadband services at a Durban-based company which claims a pigeon can carry…
Brokerage Barnard Jacobs Mellet Securities has revised its share price target for telecommunications group Vodacom sharply downward in anticipation of…
Telecommunications companies have agreed in a meeting with the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) to come together to negotiate…
Solidarity has accepted a new wage offer from Telkom, the trade union said on Tuesday. “Solidarity yesterday [Monday] accepted a…
Telecommunications industry regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), has summoned SA’s incumbent operators, including Telkom, Vodacom and MTN,…