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The Communication Workers' Union (CWU) asked Minister of Communication General Siphiwe Nyanda to appoint a commission to investigate allegations of irregularities and nepotism at Vodacom. This call follows a report in the Sunday Times that Vodacom is trying to bottle up a KPMG forensic report. The report apparently contains, among other issues, claims that former group chief executive Alan Knott-Craig used Vodacom's resources to his family's advantage. These accusations include the charge that Knott-Craig... |
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Telkom's services in Yeoville, Johannesburg, were disrupted after an explosion ripped through the area yesterday morning. The company's services went down in the area, after an underground gas leak sparked the blast, damaging Telkom's exchange, as well as adjacent buildings. Two people were injured. The company earlier believed a municipal transformer had caused the explosion. The blast affected some voice, data, DSL and 60 mobile cellular operator links in the area, which it is in the process of restoring... |
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Jan 2010 |
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The set-top boxes that many South Africans will need for watching television when local broadcasting goes digital, will only be available at stores throughout the country in the first quarter of 2010. The switch over from analogue to digital terrestrial television broadcasting is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2011. Government has budgeted R2.45bn for this change-over. This includes subsidies for the supply of set-top-boxes (STBs) to qualifying analogue television set owners. Government sources... |
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Jan 2010 |
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Two people have been injured in a "massive explosion" in a Yeoville Telkom building on Wednesday morning, said Johannesburg emergency services. "It was a massive explosion, within a kilometre radius there were windows that have been blown and vehicles damaged," said spokesperson Percy Morokane. "It shook the whole ground." The explosion in the Telkom building happened after 8am on the corner of Hunter and Kenmere street. It left a five by 15m hole in the ground. A manhole cover was blown about 500m away... |
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Jan 2010 |
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Local MTN customers are fuming after the company debited them for data charges, amounting to tens of thousands of rands. Subscribers have faced a mass of billing trouble with the company over the last few months, including a back payment of data accounts that MTN says were initially "under-billed". Speaking to ITWeb, one customer, Benzi Kornizer, explained that, after using MTN's data service for months, the company is now trying to debit R10 000 from his account. "I received a letter from MTN, with no... |
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Jan 2010 |
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Telecommunications company Neotel on Tuesday said it will be ready for individual number porting in April. "The porting of numbers in blocks of 10 000 or 1 000 has been available for some months now," Angus Hay, executive head - technology at Neotel said in a statement. This had excluded many businesses as it was only relevant to very large corporations, Hay said. Geographic number portability is defined as the process via which customers can transfer their fixed line number from one operator to the next... |
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Jan 2010 |
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Although it is tempting to believe that the high and stable historical growth trend in the telecommunications industry revenue will persist and thus continue to support the investment case for most telecomms companies, Allan Gray's experts believe that such a simplistic conclusion is inappropriate. According to Jan Silvis writing in Allan Gray's quarterly commentary circulated on Monday: "After an extended period of high growth we would argue that the risks are to the downside." "As investors," he said, "... |
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Jan 2010 |
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Downtime on Telkom's SAT-3 undersea cable left customers without international Internet access for several hours yesterday afternoon. According to Telkom, the SAT-3 consortium had planned work on a segment of the cable between Accra, in Ghana, and Abidjan, in the Ivory Coast. The consortium planned downtime of between four and six hours; however, a failure caused the capacity blackout to last longer. Telkom says the branching units responsible for powering the cable experienced a problem, leaving a mass... |
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Jan 2010 |
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Neotel assured its Internet users that the recent international Internet connectivity problem, due to a failure of the SAT-3 cable that connects Cape Town to Europe, will not affect Neotels network. Angus Hay, NeotelҒs Executive Head of Technology, said Neotel Internet customers including local Internet Service Providers, businesses and consumers were unaffected by the interruption, since Neotel uses multiple cables, such as SAFE and SEACOM. "The break of SAT-3 cable had no impact on our Internet customers... |
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Jan 2010 |
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The Competition Tribunal is preparing for a pre-hearing where Telkom will be required to present its case in a long-standing competition investigation. The tribunal says all parties are now filing their official documents in lieu of a pre-hearing where the official date for the case against Telkom will be decided. Telkom has declined to comment on the matter; however, it is likely preparing its defence for the case. The case stems from a complaint submitted by the then value-added network service provider... |
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Jan 2010 |
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VODACOM yesterday hit out at former CEO Alan Knott-Craig's main accuser, saying he is a disgruntled former manager who was dismissed for perjury. At the weekend, the Sunday Times reported that in 2008 the Vodacom board commissioned an investigation of claims that Knott- Craig misused his position to further the interests of family members. Vodacom is opposing a Labour Court subpoena to release the report, prepared by accountants KPMG, in connection with a continuing Labour Court case. Yesterday, Vodacom ... |
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Jan 2010 |
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The communications ministry has asked for a copy of a forensic report in which former Vodacom chief executive Alan Knott-Craig is reportedly accused of nepotism and breaching corporate governance standards. Mamodupi Mohlala, the communications department's director-general, confirmed that she had asked the cellphone giant's board of directors for a copy of the report. The move follows a Sunday Times report revealing that a forensic audit by KPMG had found that Knott-Craig helped his son - Alan Knott-Craig... |
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Jan 2010 |
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The Communication Workers' Union (CWU) asked Minister of Communication General Siphiwe Nyanda to appoint a commission to investigate allegations of irregularities and nepotism at Vodacom. This call follows a report in the Sunday Times that Vodacom is trying to bottle up a KPMG forensic report. The report apparently contains, among other issues, claims that former group chief executive Alan Knott-Craig used Vodacom's resources to his family's advantage. These accusations include the charge that Knott-Craig... |
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Jan 2010 |
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FORMER Vodacom CEO Alan Knott-Craig yesterday defended himself against allegations of nepotism and corporate malpractice made by "disgruntled" former employees, as a former director said the Vodacom board had been "very unhappy" about the scale of his family's involvement in the company. The statements followed media reports that Vodacom in 2008 hired accountants KPMG to conduct a forensic investigation into accusations made by two former senior executives at the company. The 18 allegations, contained in ... |
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Jan 2010 |
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The Wireless Application Service Providers' Association (Waspa) is clamping down on content providers that breach its code of conduct. However, an analyst has argued that the association does not have enough power, and the duty to protect subscribers is actually a network operator issue. Recently, there has been a flurry of complaints on consumer site HelloPeter, with people saying they are being billed for content for which they did not subscribe. One complainant states that his daughter, aged 11, replied... |
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