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
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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”
If you think that Faith Muthambi is the first politician to wreck the media party, then you simply aren’t paying attention. Take “Poison” Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri. Following a career of unmitigated failure, she was elevated to the post of minsiter of communications
Telkom registered more than 6 000 incidents of copper-cable theft on its network in the past year and as a result is now actively moving customers away from the technology to wireless and fibre alternatives. The telecommunications operator said on