National treasury is pressuring the continent’s biggest money manager to provide as much as R100bn to fund struggling state companies, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. The Public Investment Corp, which
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In a move that has stunned the market, fibre-to-the-home operator Vumatel will begin a pilot before the end of the year to offer uncapped 100Mbit/s fibre connectivity to residents of Alexandra in
Telkom’s IT services business, BCX (formerly Business Connexion), has invested R50m in a new data science training academy, which plans to create 300 year-long internships over the next three years. The
It’s ironic that the two keynote addresses (from both government and Telkom) on the first day of the operator’s Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference
Telkom said government is considering various options regarding its 39% stake in the fixed-line operator as it seeks to raise cash to bail out the country’s unprofitable national airline. The state’s shares in the former
Telkom on Wednesday cautioned shareholders that a possible plan by government to offload some or all of its 39.3% stake in the telecommunications operator could hit its share price. “Shareholders
Telkom has lifted the lid on the LIT TVC 100 Android-powered media box it intends offering to customers. Last week, the telecommunications operator revealed that it intends offering zero-rated streaming
MTN and Vodacom have tied for first place in terms of mobile broadband coverage in South Africa, a comprehensive set of data points analysed by OpenSignal has shown. The report by the company, which specialises in
Telkom’s zero-rated streaming plans, called LIT, which it plans to introduce on 1 September, may break network neutrality principles and run counter to government’s draft integrated policy for the ICT sector, a reading
On TalkCentral this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about Telkom’s new LIT zero-rated music and video streaming plans and what they mean for the market. Also this week, HTC is on the chopping