Less than a year after joining Telkom’s board, former Openserve CEO Alphonzo Samuels has resigned as a non-executive director. Telkom disclosed in a statement to shareholders that the Telkom veteran, who retired from the group in 2019, has given up his directorship “for personal reasons”. At the same time, the company has appointed Olufunke Ighodaro and...
Telkom is not holding back improved broadband access through its legal challenge of the spectrum auction but is, in fact, trying to make broadband more pervasive in South Africa. This is feedback from Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko who commented on their decision to get an interdict against the planned spectrum auction. The Independent Communications Authority...
Telecoms regulator the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has welcomed yesterday’s ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) against Telkom on a matter relating to the leasing of facilities between licensed operators. In a statement this afternoon, the regulator says in this matter, Telkom sought to review ICASA’s decision that directed Telkom...
Digital Fintech enablement provider Ukheshe Technologies, together with Infobip, a global cloud communications platform, have developed South Africa’s first WhatsApp payment gateway for use by mobile operator Telkom. The partners claim that in addition to being South Africa’s first digital wallet platform, the solution is also the first WhatsApp channel to enable payments using QR....
Telkom’s mobile business is still flying. In a financial update for the nine months to end-December 2020, published on Monday, the company said service revenue from mobile soared 40.7% year on year. This helped ensure that group revenue rose, albeit only just at 0.9% to R32.4-billion. Dragging down the results was a shocking 26.2% decline in...
JSE-listed telecommunications company Telkom has appointed Dirk Reyneke as the group chief financial officer (CFO) effect from 05 February 2021. In a statement to shareholders, the company says the appointment has been made pursuant to Telkom’s policy dealing with the nomination of directors. Reyneke replaces Tsholofelo Molefe who left Telkom in December last year to join Pan-African...
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has announced that Telkom has withdrawn part of its court application against it. “Following the recent media reports about Telkom launching a court application in respect of the Invitation To Apply (ITA) for high demand spectrum or International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) spectrum as well as the ITA...
Telkom recently launched a legal challenge against ICASA’s plan to auction radio frequency spectrum that is to be used for 4G and 5G networks in South Africa. It said there are many grounds of review, which include that 700MHz and 800MHz “digital dividend” bands are not currently commercially viable as they are still in use by...
Last month, Telkom launched a legal challenge against ICASA’s planned spectrum auction, which will give operators valuable radio frequency spectrum for their 4G and 5G networks. Telkom argued that digital dividend spectrum is not currently commercially viable and that ICASA’s plans have not taken the lack of competition in South Africa’s cellular market into account. Telkom executive...
Telkom has partnered with YahClick to offer Internet access and voice-over-IP services to consumers in areas where the company doesn’t have coverage, especially in rural areas. The telecommunications operator said it will commence the arrangement by migrating “identified consumer (non-business) customers first and launch to new customers in early 2021”. “This significantly expands access to affordable...
