| |
 |
|
1
Aug 2006 |
TELKOM’S tariffs are 2,1% lower overall as from today. Steven Hayward, Telkom’s managing executive for Retail Marketing, said that although the net impact of the proposed prices will vary among customers, mainly due to the types of services they use, the overall effect will be a reduction in the cost of telecommunications in SA.
The reduction follows the approval of price adjustments by the Independent Communication Authority of SA (Icasa) which were filed by Telkom in June.
Hayward said: "If one con... |
| |
|
|
1
Aug 2006 |
Sorry, the content you are looking for has been removed due to a request by MyBroadband. We apologise for the inconvenience....
|
| |
|
|
31
July 2006 |
Cellular network operators were being "hypocritical" by cancelling subscribers while they were urging the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) to look at access to the service rather than interfering in the pricing model, James Hodge, a partner at economics consulting firm Genesis Analytics, said last week.
Hodge said Vodacom's decision to delete 3.5 million SIM cards from its system was contrary to what the group had told Icasa during the hearings on mobile pricing and the decision should... |
| |
|
|
31
July 2006 |
Sorry, the content you are looking for has been removed due to a request by MyBroadband. We apologise for the inconvenience....
|
| |
|
|
31
July 2006 |
Sorry, the content you are looking for has been removed due to a request by MyBroadband. We apologise for the inconvenience....
|
| |
|
|
31
July 2006 |
South African cellphone users can finally start getting used to paying for the actual airtime they use now that the leading players are offering per-second billing on some (Vodacom, MTN and Cell-C) or all (Virgin) of their packages.
But this is only for cellphone calls to other cellphones or landlines. Where consumers call cellphones using Telkom landlines, they still pay in full for the first minute even if the call lasts just a few seconds.
The only Telkom users who qualify for per-second billing ar... |
| |
|
|
31
July 2006 |
Sorry, the content you are looking for has been removed due to a request by MyBroadband. We apologise for the inconvenience....
|
| |
|
|
31
July 2006 |
An e-mail from an employee at the second national operator (SNO) indicates the implementation of wholesale services has been delayed until year-end, a statement the SNO denies.
An electronic communication from Archisman Mozumder to a prospective consumer states "the SNO had targeted the roll-out of its initial wholesale services to select customers (other telecom operators) by the end of 2006".
This communication contradicts a statement by the SNO on 4 July, that: "The SNO has targeted the launch of i... |
| |
|
|
31
July 2006 |
Sorry, the content you are looking for has been removed due to a request by MyBroadband. We apologise for the inconvenience....
|
| |
|
|
29
July 2006 |
Hopes that South African fixed-line telephone users could soon join their cellphone counterparts in having a number for life and the same number for both services have been put on hold - for now.
This week Icasa announced a new numbering plan for all telecommunication operators in the country. In terms of the new regulations, it will become mandatory for fixed-line users to dial 10 digits when making a call.
This prompted Telkom to announce that, from January next year, Telkom fixed-line callers will ... |
| |
|
|
28
July 2006 |
Sorry, the content you are looking for has been removed due to a request by MyBroadband. We apologise for the inconvenience....
|
| |
|
|
28
July 2006 |
Sorry, the content you are looking for has been removed due to a request by MyBroadband. We apologise for the inconvenience....
|
| |
|
|
28
July 2006 |
Sorry, the content you are looking for has been removed due to a request by MyBroadband. We apologise for the inconvenience....
|
| |
|
|
28
July 2006 |
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) is today expected to extend the deadline for subscription broadcasting licence applications to the end of August.
This will give interested companies an extra 30 days to polish their applications.
Earlier this year Icasa invited companies to bid for a subscription broadcasting licence to increase consumer choice and end MultiChoice's monopoly. MultiChoice, satellite radio provider WorldSpace and signal distributors such as Orbicom and Sentech wer... |
| |
|
|
28
July 2006 |
Sharp cuts in the City of Cape Town's IT budget will seriously hamper its ability to retain staff, perform routine maintenance and threaten its place as the country's most ICT-centric city, says CIO Nirvesh Sooful.
According to Sooful, the 2007 capital budget was slashed from a requested R75 million to R30 million, in what he describes as an “arbitrary manner”.
He says the city, which has the most extensive enterprise resource management system of any municipality, needs to allocate more funds to reta... |
|
