Telkom has revealed plans to re-farm half of its spectrum in the 1,8GHz band for 4G/LTE services as it bets on data rather than voice as the big growth driver in mobile services. The company’s CEO, Sipho Maseko
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The Telkom-branded vans dotted across South African towns and cities are an endangered species.
The vans will soon be rebranded as Openserve, in line with Telkom’s move to turn its former
Telkom has agreed with organised labour not to retrench any workers for the next two years, but in turn workers have agreed to a wage freeze and to a new performance-based system that can earn them extra money. The agreement has been signed
Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele has defended government’s decision not to sell its stake in Telkom, saying it has been vindicated by the strong performance of the company’s share price in the past few
Your Internet service provider could soon be providing more than just your broadband digital subscriber line service. Telkom has revealed that it will soon offer not only wholesale
Despite reporting a further 6,5% decline in the number of fixed lines in service to just 3,2m, Telkom has declared that it has completed a three-year turnaround strategy and is now ready for growth. This comes as it reports a 15,5% increase in
Telkom pumped R757m into fibre-to-the-home broadband infrastructure in the year ended 31 March 2016, an increase of 200% over the R252m it spent in the 2015 financial year. The spend on FTTH outstripped the company’s
Given the amount of capital South Africa’s big mobile operators are pouring into their networks – well over R20bn between them this year alone – one could be forgiven for thinking the industry isn’t facing the serious headwinds many are predicting in the
On TalkCentral this week, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about the court judgment against Faith Muthambi over set-top boxes. Also this week, there’s a fire at Icasa’s offices, thieves are
Telkom has announced it will be the exclusive telecommunications sponsor of South Africa’s Olympic and Paralympics teams. The company has not disclosed the value of the “multimillion-rand”