We believe TechCentral’s Duncan McLeod has overlooked key aspects of Telkom’s argument for a fair playing field in the telecoms sector and a pro-consumer approach to regulation and oversight. By Liza Zouabi.
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There is real irony in the way Telkom is using every opportunity it gets to complain about a “duopoly” in South Africa’s mobile industry. By Duncan McLeod.
Pakamile Pongwana, an ICT industry veteran who led Icasa as CEO before a controversial exit four years ago, passed away last week, TechCentral has learnt.
Gabrielle Celli, the former head of regulatory affairs at Telkom during the height of the company’s monopoly powers in the 1990s and early 2000s, has died.
Telkom CEO-designate Serame Taukobong believes the company’s investments in a range of areas will stand it in good stead in the coming years.
Serame Taukobong has been appointed as Telkom’s group CEO-designate and will replace Sipho Maseko, who has led the company for the past eight years, in mid-2022.
Telkom’s rapid mobile growth continues unabated, with the telecommunications group reporting a 36.3% increase in subscribers year-on-year in the quarter ended 30 June 2021.
Margin pressure is forcing BCX, the IT services business in the Telkom stable, to think more creatively about new revenue opportunities, according to its CEO, Jonas Bogoshi.
Telkom has disclosed in its integrated report, published on Monday, that it will pay its outgoing group CEO R20-million to retain his services for the two years between March 2020 and March 2022.
Sipho Maseko, who announced last week that he will step down as Telkom CEO next year, saved the company from impending ruin. That might sound like an overstatement; it’s not. By Duncan McLeod.