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Oct 2010 |
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Competition in the mobile sector is already heating up, as MTN responds to mobile newcomer 8ta's entry into market, with a re-introduction of the MTN Zone 100 percent Mahala Calls and SMSes promotion. The deal allows for discounts of up to 100 percent for voice and call services at certain times of the day. The discount is dependent on how much traffic is being passed through a particular area on the company's network. Essentially, calls in areas with lower traffic will be discounted. This means that... |
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Oct 2010 |
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As telecommunications group Telkom opened its mobile arm, 8ta, for business on Monday, growth partnership company Frost and Sullivan said it expected South Africa's fourth mobile player to shake up pricing in the sector. Frost and Sullivan ICT industry analyst Spiwe Chireka sais that Telkom aims to take a 15 percent mobile market share within the first five years of operation. Telkom is expected to spend R6 billion during the next five years on its mobile infrastructure. "Through a number of different... |
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Oct 2010 |
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Telkom's new mobile arm 8ta must target market segments carefully, particularly in the corporate arena, if it wants to win good market share and be profitable in three to four years, analysts said. The fixed-line operator, which sold its 50 percent stake in cellphone company Vodacom in 2009, announced its mobile offering at a lavish function at Lanseria Airport on Thursday. 8ta will initially offer prepaid services, with contract packages following in November, said acting Telkom CEO Jeffrey Hedberg. Telkom... |
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Oct 2010 |
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Analysts have welcomed the launch of Telkom new mobile networkoperator, arguing that it would give rivals a run for their money. The telecommunications group disclosed the details of its new mobile network brand, which will be known as 8ta. From tomorrow the cellular network will roll out prepaid cellular services and will follow up with post-paid (contract) packages in November. Corporate services are expected to hit the market within six months. Sisa Rafuza, a portfolio manager at Metropolitan Asset... |
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Oct 2010 |
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Telkom's cellphone network, 8ta, which is behind the Heita! campaign that has intrigued the country for weeks, has taken the battle for control of the mobile phone market up a notch. The fourth competitor in the domestic cellphone market announced the service at a gala event this week. Telkom SA managing director Nombulelo Moholi said: "We want to establish Telkom as a serious player in the cellphone industry. Our aim is to disrupt the industry." Telkom's cellphone network is a newcomer in a relatively... |
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Oct 2010 |
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As of Monday South Africa will have a fourth mobile operator and it means business. The new operator, which has been dubbed "8ta", is the mobile arm of South Africa's fixed-line operator, Telkom. Speculation suggested that Telkom's new mobile arm would be named "Heita", after the prominent marketing campaign in which the phrase, which means "hello", has been scrawled across buses, newspapers and billboards. But the marketing campaign was aimed at teaching South Africans how to pronounce the new mobile... |
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Oct 2010 |
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MTN, a leading cellphone network operator with an enormous footprint in Africa and elsewhere, is so successful that it practically prints money every time it opens its doors for business. The money the company rakes in makes the millions that Gidani, the country's national lottery operator, dishes out to lucky Lotto winners every week pale into insignificance. When the cellphone network operator came up with a media campaign to support its Zakhele share scheme, which closed yesterday, it used the following... |
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Oct 2010 |
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Telkom, traditionally known as a fixed-line business, launched its mobile phone operator at Lanseria Airport late on Thursday. Its mobile division 8ta will offer flat rates without off-peak and on-peak periods. A call from an 8ta mobile phone to a fixed line will be charged at 65c per minute, while mobile to another mobile will cost R1.50 per minute. "For every three minutes of receiving calls we will reward you with one minute of free outgoing calls ... if you make a 30 second call, you get... |
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Oct 2010 |
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Telkom has joined the cellphone giants and launched a mobile-communications business to offset falling profit from its fixed-line operation. Telkom launched its cellular network at Lanseria international airport, north of Johannesburg, last night. The parastatal's core fixed-line business reportedly came under pressure after it spun off and sold its stake in Vodacom, South Africa's biggest cell network operator and Telkom's main earnings driver. It has been reported that Telkom intends spending R6-billion ... |
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Oct 2010 |
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Cell C claims 8ta, Telkom's new mobile network, is copying pricing that it introduced in November 2009. All three of the country's established mobile network operators, MTN, Vodacom and Cell C, greeted the arrival of the fourth mobile operator with varying degrees of lukewarm welcomes. They all stated they welcome the increased competition and that it would be good for market growth. However, Cell C, until now the country's smallest operator, appeared to be the most irritated, particularly on the pricing... |
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Oct 2010 |
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Telecommunications group Telkom revealed details of its new mobile brand 8ta on Thursday. The new mobile network is launching prepaid cellular services that will be available from this Monday. Post-paid (contract) packages will be available in November and corporate services will launch within six months. Managing executive of the new Telkom Mobile division, Amith Maharaj, said that 8ta is the consumer brand for Telkom Mobile while corporate customers for mobile will be addressed under the Telkom Business... |
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Oct 2010 |
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Incoming mobile operator, Telkom Mobile, will hit the ground running as ITWeb has exclusively learnt the newcomer will offer Microsoft's latest Windows 7 smartphone range upon launch. While commenting on the availability of Windows Phone 7 devices in SA, Microsoft marketing lead for Windows Phone, Nkosi Kumalo, let slip that Telkom Mobile will carry the new smartphones at launch. It is speculated that Telkom Mobile will be officially unveiled tomorrow evening, as the fixed-line operator has invited the... |
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Oct 2010 |
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Consumers have felt ripped off for years, and understandably so. Prices for telecommunication services (both voice and data) have been higher than in other parts of the world. Not only are we 9000 kilometers away from Europe, we've historically only had access to the "world" via a single undersea cable operated by a former monopoly (Telkom's SAT-3 cable). There have been promises of competition for years and some false starts. The entry of Neotel offered much hope. But with (unnecessarily) complicated... |
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Oct 2010 |
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First came "082" and "083" for Vodacom and MTN, then "084" for Cell C when the third mobile operator launched a decade ago. Now a new number prefix will be introduced this week, and it belongs to Telkom. No, it's not "085?. Rather, Telkom's new mobile arm, which will launched later this week at a function at Lanseria airport, has been granted the "081" number range by the Independent Communications Authority of SA, TechCentral has learnt. It's a coup for Telkom to secure "081" rather than "085".... |
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Oct 2010 |
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Converged telecoms operator Neotel has responded to heavy criticism of its consumer focus with a complete revamp of its core offerings, but analysts are adamant there is still room for improvement. Among the new offerings, Neotel has introduced identical voice tariffs for prepaid and postpaid packages, free evening and weekend on-network weekends, and a new entry-level data package for R99 per month. The company has also deployed a billing system which it says will improve billing accuracy and information... |
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