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South African telecommunications operator Telkom hopes to get a mention in Guinness World Records as part of an attempt to break the current record for longest marathon of watching movies, which currently stands at 120 hours and 23 minutes (about five days). The movies

Something significant transpired on Friday last week that prompted South Africa’s largest telecommunications operator, Vodacom, to review the structure of its acquisition of Neotel, a

South Africa is likely to have more than 360 000 active fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connections by 2019, new research has found. According to BMI-TechKnowledge, which has published a new report entitled “The Fibre Land Grab: the Status of FTTx in South Africa”, open

As Telkom walked away from buying Cell C this week, the mobile operator’s parent, the Dubai-headquartered Oger Telecom, has said a sale is not the only option under consideration. Although

Telkom has signed a deal with Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt to promote its fibre-to-the-home broadband offerings. Telkom filmed Bolt in his home country of Jamaica last weekend for the promotional material it intends using to advertise its fibre products. The telecommunications

We shake up the format a little in TalkCentral this week, introducing a quiz to the show and making some other changes. But the focus is still what’s happening in the world of technology, and your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about the 30th anniversary of Windows

Telkom has abandoned a plan to acquire Cell C. The telecommunications operator told shareholders on Thursday afternoon that it had walked away from a deal to acquire South Africa’s third mobile licensee

Cell C has demonstrated download speeds across an LTE Advanced network at the AfricaCom trade show in Cape Town of as much as 138Mbit/s. The operator can’t, however, deploy the technology without

Telkom had 14 212 employees at the end of September 2015, down from 21 800 in March 2013. However, further reductions in head count, including through “residual outsourcing”, are