Telkom adds billing for BlackBerry apps

Telkom Mobile and BlackBerry have announced an integrated carrier billing service for BlackBerry smartphone customers in South Africa. The service is made possible through Telkom Mobile’s newly developed Event Billing service and will enable Telkom Mobile customers to...

Telkom challenges Vodacom, MTN on MTR

Telkom’s CEO Sipho Maseko has challenged MTN and Vodacom to consider the effect their court application to relook at mobile termination rates (MTR) could have on the future of South Africa. In an open letter to MTN SA’s CEO Zunaid Bulbulia and Vodacom’s CEO Shameek...

Telkom CEO to attend compliance course

Telkom’s suspended chief financial officer, Jacques Schindehutte, has repaid the R6-million loan from the state-owned enterprise – and the CEO has to attend a course on corporate governance. The Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) issued a compliance...

Telkom calls for VoD tender applications

Telkom has extended an invitation to industry to bid for the provisioning of video on demand (VoD) services. Manelisa Mavuso, MD of consumer services and retail marketing, comments: “We have been progressing well with our efforts to deliver the ultimate connected home...

Telkom: MTR delay not in public interest

Recent moves to oppose new mobile termination rates (MTRs) will delay reducing the cost of calls to the consumer, and are not in the public interest, according to a statement from Telkom. “Telkom is relieved that the initial delay to the implementation of Mobile...