Browsing: Vox Telecom

Unbundling: what industry wants from Icasa

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The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) will present a discussion document on local-loop unbundling (LLU) to the telecommunications industry on Wednesday morning. TechCentral rounded up the views of a few key industry leaders

Captain Comeback

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Vox Telecom group MD Doug Reed is no stranger to the vagaries of the local telecommunications industry. The 52-year-old has made — and lost — a personal fortune in his career, but is warm and welcoming when I meet him at the company’s offices across the

Huge Group fails to publish results on time

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There is no link between the decision by Huge Group acting financial director Yvette Neveling to resign and its announcement just hours later that the company has failed to publish in 2011 financial results within the deadline prescribed by the JSE, says CEO

JSE set to lose another IT counter

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Software and IT services company UCS is considering delisting from the JSE just weeks after finalising a deal to sell a large chunk of its operations to Business Connexion (BCX). UCS joins companies such as Mustek and TeleMasters

MWeb upgrades broadband users

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Two separate announcements on Wednesday morning demonstrate that competitive rivalry continues to intensify in SA’s fixed-line broadband market. In the first announcement, MWeb has announced it will not charge its

LCR not dead yet, says Vox

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AltX-listed Vox Telecom says there is still a good three years of life left in the least-cost routing (LCR) market. This is despite the big cuts in mobile and fixed-line termination rates, the rates that

Interconnect knocks Vox

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AltX-listed Vox Telecom has been dealt knock to earnings by lower interconnection rates. The company has released its interim results for the six months ended 28 February, showing headline earnings down

Six months later, Vox still in talks

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Vox Telecom has renewed a cautionary notice to shareholders for a fifth time, warning it is in talks that could affect its share price. Though Vox management won’t say what the talks are about, it is widely speculated

TalkCentral: Episode 26 – ‘Saved’

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Episode 26 of TechCentral’s business technology podcast, TalkCentral, is ready for download. In this week’s show, your hosts Candice Jones and Duncan McLeod catch up on some of the big news of the past week

Van Marken: why I’m leaving Vox

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A punishing weekly commute between his home in Franschhoek in the Western Cape and Johannesburg is what prompted Vox Telecom CEO Tony van Marken to step down