Trade union federation Cosatu has slammed Telkom’s plans to cut 300 jobs and outsource another 254 staff. On Friday, Telkom confirmed that a section 189 process – which deals
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Communications regulator Icasa “failed in its statutory obligation” to promote competition in South Africa’s telecommunications industry when it approved the transfer of Neotel’s operating and spectrum licences to Vodacom, Cell C CEO
Telkom has sought to play down a report published on Monday that suggested it plans to slash its workforce by more than 40% in the coming months. Bloomberg reported that Telkom wants to cut its workforce to
Icasa met secretly and unlawfully with Vodacom to discuss the operator’s proposed R7bn acquisition of Neotel, leading to a “reasonable suspicion of bias” against the communications regulator, the high court in Pretoria has found. In a damning judgment, handed down on Friday, Judge
Trade union Solidarity on Friday said a further 300 jobs are on the line at Telkom as the company continues with a cost-cutting programme that involves reducing the size of the organisation’s employee base. The union said in a statement
For the second year in a row, the national budget has provided few details on a project to connect municipalities to broadband technology. Finance minister Pravin Gordhan delivered the 2016 national budget speech in parliament
Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn, who is also the party’s spokeswoman on telecommunications & postal services, has labelled the budget allocated to South Africa’s broadband roll-out plan, dubbed SA Connect, as “grossly inadequate”. “R1,6 billion over
Customers who use Telkom’s mobile transactional services, such as airtime recharges, could run into issues on Wednesday amid a hardware glitch. Telkom said on Wednesday morning that a hardware failure is disrupting its
The independence of communications regulator Icasa is at stake in a tussle between the regulator and the department of telecommunications & postal services on how valuable spectrum will be assigned. It is common cause that the
I was on a flight – my tenth or twelfth of the year, I forget – so I missed the president’s state of the nation address. In it, the word “broadband” was mentioned only twice, roughly about the same number of mentions it garners every year. “Government,” we were told