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More Industry Insights NetworksSouth Africa – Here is what happens when Telkom switches off ADSL

September 24, 2019by myles

In May 2019, Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko was quoted as saying that Telkom recently developed a roadmap concerning the proactive migration of customers to newer infrastructure. “We are hoping that in the next five years we would have exited copper entirely,” Maseko said. This means that if it is successful with its plan, Telkom’s operational...

More Africa NewsSouth Africa: Telkom boss blasts Treasury’s view of SA’s telecoms industry

September 4, 2019by myles

Telkom group CEO, Sipho Maseko, has slammed National Treasury’s view of the country’s telecommunications and ICT sectors as incoherent and chaotic. Maseko wrote an opinion piece that was published in the Sunday Times. This after Treasury last week published an economic recovery plan to encourage growth and job creation in SA. Treasury believes that modernising network industries...