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Telkom has cut a further 1 184 jobs through voluntary retrenchments, representing more than 8% of the company’s workforce, prompting trade union Solidarity to warn of a “massive skills shortage” at

South Africa’s minister of telecommunications & postal services, Siyabonga Cwele, has distanced his department from reports that telecommunications company Telkom and state-owned connectivity firm Broadband Infraco could merge. Media reports this

A merger of troubled state-owned telecommunications infrastructure company Broadband Infraco and Telkom, in which government holds a 39,8% direct stake, looks increasingly certain, a report published on Monday said. Business Day said Infraco has indicated in

MTN and Cell C have emerged as the mobile networks that offer the best smartphone deals to consumers. This is according to the latest quarterly “Perfect Package Tracker” released by Tariffic, the company that analyses the network operators’ tariffs and deals

MTN has joined the growing list of South African telecommunications operators offering next-generation LTE-Advanced broadband services offering theoretical speeds in excess of 100Mbit/s over mobile connections. The company said

Indications that national treasury is in discussion with JSE-listed Telkom and the department of telecommunications & postal services to formalise a “partnership” to manage the roll-out of South

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

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