Browsing: Telkom

Confusion over state broadband tender

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The department of telecommunications & postal services on Wednesday kept mum on whether Telkom would be the preferred bidder to supply and maintain a government broadband project in South Africa. Deputy minister

ISPs tell mobile networks to open up

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The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) on Monday called on South Africa’s mobile operators to “embrace the open-access spirit” of government’s national integrated ICT policy white paper by launching “genuine wholesale service offerings”. This, the association said

Robert Nkuna is new telecoms DG

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Robert Nkuna is the new director-general of the department of telecommunications & postal services, replacing Rosey Sekese, who was “expelled” from her post after being suspended in 2015. Cabinet ratified the decision to appoint Nkuna, who is

R149/GB can’t hold much longer

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The country’s largest Wi-Fi provider, AlwaysOn, now allows customers to convert airtime into Wi-Fi data for its relatively pervasive network. At the entry level, R15 converts to 150MB of AlwaysOn data, which is less than half

Telkom leaps on trading update

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Telkom’s share price jumped by almost 6% on Thursday after the partially state-owned telecommunications group said it expects normalised headline earnings per share for the six months to 3 September 2016 to increase

The great mobile roaming rip-off

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It is borderline criminal for mobile operators to be charging as much as R500/MB for data use while roaming in certain countries. It’s 2016! The overarching problem with roaming, of course, is that there

The 81 CEOs who pledged support for Pravin

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In a dramatic move of support for Pravin Gordhan, 81 CEOs pledged support for the finance minister days before he presents his mini budget and a week before he appears in court on fraud charges. “We stand as one for the rule

Investors eye new avenue into SA telecoms

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Cell C’s full financial results, for the six months ended June 2016, provide detailed insight into the performance of South Africa’s third largest mobile telecommunications operator for the first time. The numbers are contained in a

What’s really going on in SA’s mobile market

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R39,5bn. That’s the amount South Africans spent on cellphone contracts in 2015. This analysis of the market is possible for the first time after the publication of a transaction circular by Blue Label Telecoms, which detailed