The number of Telkom digital subscriber line subscribers has declined for the first time ever. Between 1 April 2016 and 30 September 2016, the operator lost 19 714 DSL customers. This went largely unnoticed by the market as Telkom changed
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It’s our last show for 2016, and a time to look back at the year that was. In this special edition of TalkCentral, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg choose their top smartphones of 2016. Also this week, the biggest local and international
Vodacom has finally announced uncapped plans for fibre-to-the-home broadband across a range of infrastructure providers where it acts as an Internet service provider. The uncapped price plans have been introduced in addition to the existing
Vumatel has reached an agreement to acquire fellow fibre-to-the-home provider Fibrehoods, potentially kick-starting a long-expected consolidation of the industry, in which it is estimated there are more than two dozen players
Afrihost said on Tuesday that it is entering the fibre-to-the-home market using the infrastructure deployed by Vumatel, Telkom’s Openserve and TT Connect, a fibre provider on Johannesburg’s East Rand. Now, the company has
Afrihost, the Internet service provider best known for its aggressively priced digital subscriber line and mobile data products, is belatedly entering the fibre-to-the-home broadband market. The company said on
Vodacom has signed lease agreements with a range of fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) providers, promising broadband access starting at R499/month for 100GB of data on a 10Mbit/s line. The mobile operator, which is keen to build a significant presence
Fast-expanding broadband fibre-to-the-home provider Vumatel has received the second and final tranche of R250m in funding from Vantage Capital, a mezzanine fund manager. Vantage Capital said on Friday that the funds will
In November, I argued that Telkom’s broadband digital subscriber line service had peaked (that was at the half-year mark). Since then, growth has slowed even further and the telecommunications giant is on a knife-edge of
Competition has broken out among telecommunications operators in South Africa as a result of an open-access policy intervention, being the prices which operators pay to access customers on other networks: the call termination rate. Prepaid mobile voice