The high court in Pretoria has handed a significant and potentially ground-breaking legal defeat to Telkom, and victory to Vodacom, over the use of the former’s ducts used to carry broadband cables.
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Liquid Telecom South Africa has made no decision yet about retrenching staff but has begun a consultation process with employees that could – and probably will – lead to job losses in the months ahead.
MTN South Africa is feeling the impact of the lost revenue from former roaming partner Telkom, with the company’s service revenue declining by 2.5% year on year despite a strong operational performance.
Promoted podcast | IoT.nxt has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Vodafone’s UK subsidiary that will see the two companies collaborating in delivering IoT solutions to the mobile operator’s enterprise customer base.
Telkom Financial Services managing executive Sibusiso Ngwenya joins the TechCentral podcast to unpack the news at the weekend that the company is launching a range of financial services products.
Telkom has branched into the competitive space of financial services by launching a life insurance business that it said will initially sell funeral insurance.
Icasa has slammed a report in the consumer media this week that stated it made a mistake when it assigned the “111” service code to government for dealing with Covid-19-related calls from citizens.
Vodacom pumped an additional R500-million into its network in the first quarter of its 2021 financial year to help cater for surging demand for voice and data services during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Four years after pulling the plug on its M-Pesa platform in South Africa, Vodacom is having another go at fintech and mobile payments in its biggest market, this time in partnership with Chinese’s Ant Financial.
Microsoft has officially launched its first Surface devices in South Africa, though the range is extremely limited for now, with only the Surface Pro 7 and Surface Laptop 3 available.