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Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has added her voice to concerns about the high cost of telephony in SA.
Speaking at the launch of IBM’s Integrated Delivery Centre (IDC) in Sandton yesterday, the deputy president said: “I agree that we need to move much faster to make rates more competitive. We recognise that a challenge is the cost of telephony.”
She added that the role of government’s Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative (Asgisa) – the economic plan that she is spearheading with the obje... |
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Posted: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:00 | © Moneyweb Holdings Limited, 1997-2006
Fixed line operator Telkom said it was asked to make an investment in Portugal Telecom, the country's biggest telephone company.
According to Bloomberg, Telkom is talking to Portuguese businessman Joao Pereira Coutinho about a possible counter bid for Portugal Telecom, the Publico newspaper said today. A group of private equity firms including Blackstone Group and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts are speculated to have teamed ... |
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BY PAUL VECCHIATTO, ITWEB CAPE TOWN CORRESPONDENT
[Cape Town | ITWeb, 13 March 2006] - Members of parliament questioned the Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA) heavily on the status of its suspended CEO Jackie Manche and CFO Bridget Mhlala, a R20 million plan to upgrade its offices and its plan to license a further 14 under-serviced area licensees (USALs) this year.
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BY KIMBERLY GUEST, IWEEK SENIOR JOURNALIST
[Johannesburg, 10 March 2006] - Communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri will not be able to unilaterally appoint people to the Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA) council.
Speaking at an Atio conference on the Electronic Communications Bill, Mpetjane Lekgoro, MP and chairman of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Communications, was responding to questions about the minister's right to appoint members to the council.
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[Johannesburg, 10 March 2006] - Wireless broadband would be an effective technology in previously disadvantaged areas. However, modem prices are still too high, said executives from Kyocera, Arraycomm and Wireless Business Solutions (WBS).
In a statement to the media at the fifth iBurst Global Forum in Sandton today, Kyocera chairman and CEO Yasuo Nishiguchi emphasised the benefits of deploying wireless broadband infrastructure.
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March 9, 2006, 3 hours, 27 minutes and 7 seconds ago.
By Zablon Omondi
Nairobi (AND) Telkom Kenya, the country's only government owned telecommunications company will lay off half of its 17,000 workers under the new corporate restructuring process announced by the company yesterday.
Managing Director Sammy Kirui yesterday said that , the giant company had secured enough money to fund the lay offs.
Kirui said the company was unable to trim its bloated workforce due to lack of money to ... |
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March, 2006
Africa currently pays for some of the most expensive bandwidth in the world. The region has only one major international fibre cable (SAT3) that connects countries in West and Southern Africa but East Africa has no fibre connection. Fibre connections usually mean cheaper prices than satellite for volume traffic but because of the monopoly structure of the SAT3 consortium, its operators have kept prices high.
Many in Africa are pinning hopes of a change in the status quo on the proposed Ea... |
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THE Second National Operator (SNO) has been touted as the beacon of hope for free and fair competition in South Africa’s ridiculously complicated telecommunications industry. But whilst all eyes were on the SNO another less prominent player in the market has snuck up on both Telkom and the mobile operators.
It goes by the name Sentech, and for those of you who recognise the name as South Africa’s signal carrier, you would be spot on. Sentech is also a wireless broadband provider and looks set to offer a... |
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