Telkom group CEO Reuben September will retire from his position and resign his directorship at the expiry of his contract in November 2010.
In a major top-level purge, three senior Telkom executives quit this week amid allegations of tender irregularities.
Telkom is paying a security company R6,6-million a month to monitor a copper-cable alarm system that it should be monitoring itself.
Senior Telkom staffers and security companies allegedly involved in copper-cable racket.
A R1.7-billion lawsuit could be the first of many that Telkom faces over disputed tenders, writes <b>Lloyd Gedye</b>.
Telkom and cellphone operator MTN have concluded a national roaming agreement, the parties said in a joint statement on Wednesday.
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/ 12 February 2010
The East African Submarine Cable System is expected to land at Mtunzini, on the northern KwaZulu-Natal coastline, on Saturday.
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/ 27 January 2010
Two people have been injured in a "massive explosion" in a Telkom building in Yeoville on Wednesday morning, said Johannesburg emergency services.
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/ 27 November 2009
“Naked” Telkom reported that headline earnings a share had dropped by 37.9% to 242 cents for the six months ended September 30.
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/ 27 November 2009
Telkom has opened talks with the Zimbabwean government for the takeover of the country’s state-owned fixed telephone operator.
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/ 24 November 2009
Telkom will begin offering mobile phone services from 2010 as it launches a new mobile business to offset falling profit from its fixed-line business.
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/ 23 November 2009
Telkom reported close to a 40% fall in first-half profit on Monday as both its domestic and Nigerian units struggled.
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/ 10 November 2009
Political meddling in resolving a power struggle at Eskom has raised questions about South Africa’s ability to run state-owned firms.
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/ 28 October 2009
The Competition Commission on Wednesday referred its findings of abuse of dominance against Telkom to the Competition Tribunal for adjudication.
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/ 11 October 2009
The Seacom cable has not resulted in a price war, and broadband remains out of reach to most South Africans.
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/ 30 September 2009
Although a solution to high interconnection rates must be welcomed, the real question is: why now? asks Lloyd Gedye
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/ 10 September 2009
Winston, the homing pigeon who beat Telkom’s broadband capacity to transfer information in a race, is emerging as a media and internet darling.
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/ 10 September 2009
Telkom says it cannot be blamed for slow broadband services at a Durban-based company which claims a pigeon can carry its data bundles faster.
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/ 10 September 2009
A South African IT company on Wednesday proved it was faster to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom.
In the past three years Telkom has suffered almost R3-billion in losses because of cable theft, Parliament was told on Friday.
Telkom and the Communication Workers’ Union on Wednesday signed a deal on a 7,5% pay rise and a two-year moratorium on forced retrenchments.
Telkom workers have been instructed to go back to work on Monday after the Communication Worker’s Union and Telkom reached an agreement.
As the Telkom workers’ strike action gains momentum, Eskom workers are vowing to plunge the country into darkness next week.
Telkom and the Communication Workers’ Union will meet on Thursday night in a bid to end a strike, the union said.
At least 17 acts of suspected sabotage and vandalism took place during countrywide pickets by the communication sector on Wednesday, Telkom said.
Workers at Telkom will strike on into next week after unions walked away from talks to end the latest in a round of damaging industrial disputes.
Telkom workers, who have threatened to strike, are not scheduled to meet management again until next week, the CWU said on Tuesday.
Telkom has plans in place should its employees embark on strike action, the telecommunications provider said on Monday.
Telkom employees in Gauteng were expected to picket outside the offices of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration on Monday.
Strike action at both the SABC and Telkom has been brought forward, the Communication Workers’ Union said on Tuesday.
With Telkom having held the country to ransom following its privatisation in 1997, government has taken a leaf out of <i>Terminator</i>.
Telkom needs to reassure the market that it has a plan following the sale of Vodacom, writes Lloyd Gedye