As the company begins retrenchment consultations, analysts say most of its problems emanate from protecting legacy technologies.

The Telkom subsidiary cannot give clear timelines on when the broken subsea cable systems will be fully restored.

The comms minister schedules an urgent meeting with Telkom following reports the telecoms giant plans to trim its workforce.

With Telkom looking to let go of 3 000 employees, analysts say operators must shift some of the affected employees to new revenue lines.

A company cannot pay its executive team more than R100 million and then get rid of 3 000 of its workforce, says Solidarity.  

Faced with declining fixed voice revenues, the company will shed thousands of jobs as it reduces its wage bill.

Openserve customers in the Western Cape suburb have been left without full services following a major incident of cable theft.

Mobile operators are investing hundreds of millions of rands to mitigate the effects of Eskom’s rolling blackouts.

Telkom’s Sipho Maseko and Johan van Zyl of African Rainbow Capital argue that the competition watchdog’s decisions on data prices will do more harm than good.

The Competition Commission declares data costs are too high and takes Vodacom and MTN to task, while ICASA maintains data prices are just right.

The two dominant telcos have been lambasted for having a strong monopoly in the mobile data sector.

Telkom receives written notice from the Cell C board of directors rejecting its non-binding proposal.