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May 2009 |
Telkom customers can now jump ship and keep their phone number. Smile!
After more than a year of testing, the communications regulator has implemented geographic number portability (GNP). The Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA) announced earlier this week that the fixed-line number porting option is now available to customers. Geographic portability means customers are able to switch fixed-line providers without changing phone numbers.... |
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May 2009 |
Phone providers hiss, spit, pull hair.
MTN and Telkom had a full tilt at each other in the media last week, using extraordinarily strong language to berate one another. It was unseemly but it heralds a great development. It demonstrates how competitive pressures are building in the industry. After MTN SA chief Tim Lowry last week accused rival Telkom of causing the bulk of the faults on its network, the fixed-line oper... |
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May 2009 |
CEO gets R73,000 per day though in true Telkom spirit. Weeeeee!
The trade union Solidarity slammed telecommunications provider Telkom for threats about possible retrenchments made during yesterday's wage negotiations. "Telkom threatened trade unions that if wage demands are not cut, the possibility of retrenchments will increase. A deadlock was reached in the negotiations," Solidarity asserted on Wednesday. Solidarity and the other trade unio... |
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May 2009 |
Cell provider not exceedingly keen on threats of boycott.
Vodacom chief executive Pieter Uys has extended an olive branch to Cosatu, which made a vain court attempt to prevent the cellular network operator from listing on the JSE. Uys said: "I had already indicated to (Cosatu) that I want to have a dialogue with them so that … we (can) give them our commitment that there will not be job losses." Instead there would be many more benefits ... |
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May 2009 |
There is a sense, however, that he cannot do any worse than the late Ivy.
As communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda settles into office, companies in the information and communications technology industry are waiting anxiously to see what the former army general brings. Industry players are curious about how familiar he is with the complexities of the hi-tech sector. There had been an underlying optimism that the job would go to the former deputy minist... |
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May 2009 |
Provider lists, money flows like wine at The Last Supper.
Vodacom shareholders celebrated on Monday as the cellphone giant made a glittering debut on the JSE after a long controversy over its listing. But Cosatu, which opposed the listing, threatened a boycott of Vodacom. More than R100-million in shares were traded in the first hour after listing. The listing is part of a deal that involves Telkom selling 15 percent of Vodacom to the ... |
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May 2009 |
Africa to get connected with money provided by South Africans.
The last quarter of the 2009 financial year was a good indication of what JSE-listed telecommunications group Vodacom could expect going forward CEO Pieter Uys said on Tuesday. Uys explained during a results presentation in Johannesburg that Vodacom South Africa’s subscriber numbers had increased by 1,2-million during the quarter ended March 31, 2009, almost one-half of the 2,8-mi... |
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May 2009 |
Vodacom leaves gaping, Terminator-like wound in fixed line provider.
Fixed-line telecoms provider Telkom on Tuesday advised shareholders that the basic earnings a share and headline earnings a share for the year ended March 2009, were expected to decrease by between 50% and 60%, and between 40% and 50% respectively. The company reported that the Nigerian operations, which were acquired in the previous financial year, had proved difficult, and had r... |
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May 2009 |
Dipping into users' 419 profits could bolster earnings.
Telkom on Tuesday said it expects basic earnings per share and headline earnings per share for the year ended March to decrease by 50% to 60% and approximately 40% to 50% respectively, from the previous period. Discontinued operations include Vodacom Group, Telkom Media and Swiftnet. The group said the main differences between basic earnings and headline earnings are the impairme... |
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May 2009 |
Oi, the Guvna gave ICASA the two finger salute mate, make us a cuppa there innit.
AN eleventh-hour bid to prevent Vodacom from listing today on the JSE was rejected by Judge John Murphy in the Gauteng North High Court last night. Cosatu and the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) had filed an urgent application on Saturday to stop the R70 billion listing. They were opposed by the Department of Communications as well as Vodacom, Telkom and Vodafo... |
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May 2009 |
Simple listing turns into horror movie, scenes from Saw less painful to watch.
Civic body Sanco threatened on Monday to mobilise Vodacom subscribers in protest against the listing of the cellphone giant at the Johannesburg Securities Exchange. The move came after the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) failed in a High Court bid to stop the listing of Vodacom and the sale of Telkom shares in Vodacom to Vodafone. The court victory did not signal "an end to ... |
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May 2009 |
Regulator as useful as a waterproof sponge.
If President Jacob Zuma's repeatedly stated commitment not to tolerate laziness and incompetence has any substance, the executive of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) should be fired, said analysts. After the failed Pretoria High Court bid by Cosatu and Icasa to block Telkom from selling its stake in Vodacom for R22.5bn to Britain's Vodafone, CEO of ... |
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May 2009 |
Regulator as useful as a waterproof sponge.
If President Jacob Zuma's repeatedly stated commitment not to tolerate laziness and incompetence has any substance, the executive of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) should be fired, said analysts. After the failed Pretoria High Court bid by Cosatu and Icasa to block Telkom from selling its stake in Vodacom for R22.5bn to Britain's Vodafone, CEO of ... |
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May 2009 |
For all they know it could be a good thing! Bleh.
Civic body Sanco threatened on Monday to mobilise Vodacom subscribers in protest against the listing of the cellphone giant at the Johannesburg Securities Exchange. The move came after the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) failed in a High Court bid to stop the listing of Vodacom and the sale of Telkom shares in Vodacom to Vodafone. The court victory did not signal "an end to ... |
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May 2009 |
Regulator disappointed as plan to foil listing is foiled.
A South African court threw out on Sunday a bid by powerful union group COSATU to block Monday's planned listing of mobile phone company Vodacom, one of the country's largest stock exchange debuts. "I am not going to issue an interdict to COSATU," Judge John Murphey told the court. "I dismiss the application with costs."... |
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