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2013-12-06 | Telkom expresses condolences

The Board of Directors, Management and Staff of Telkom join the nation in mourning the passing on of Nelson Mandela...

2013-12-05 | Telkom announces appointment of Chief Procurement Officer

Telkom today announced the appointment of Mr Ian Russell as Chief Procurement Officer...

2013-12-04 | Telkom Wholesale and Networks: a key investor in SA's broadband ecosystem

Telkom Wholesale and Networks is investing R12 billion in its Next Generation High Speed Broadband Network to...

2013-11-18 | Telkom stabilises the business for future growth

Telkom SA SOC Limited today reported its Group interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2013...

2013-11-15 | Telkom announces Chief Marketing Officer

Telkom today announced the appointment of Mr Enzo Scarcella as Chief Marketing Officer...

2013-11-15 | iPhone 5s and 5c now available at Telkom Mobile

Telkom Mobile today announced it will offer iPhone 5s, the most forward-thinking smartphone in the world...

2013-11-13 | Telkom, UJ launch design competition

Telkom has teamed up with the Department of Graphic Design of the University of Johannesburg to launch a...

2013-11-13 | Tier IV Certification is Telkom Business' Latest Recognition

Telkom Business today announced that it has once again received international recognition for its data...

2013-11-08 | Telkom to offer iPhone 5s

Telkom today announced it will offer the iPhone 5s, the most forward-thinking smartphone in the world...

2013-11-08 | Telkom amends rules of Open Innovation Mega Challenge

Telkom has revised the rules of the Open Innovation Mega Challenge to ensure that participating innovators...

2013-11-08 | Telkom Mobile rings in customer service changes

Telkom Mobile is overhauling its customer service experience and the process is starting to bear fruit...

2013-11-07 | Telkom Mobile breaks barriers to Internet access

Telkom Mobile is championing internet access for all in South Africa with the launch...

2013-11-06 | Telkom stands ready for rainy season

Unfavourable weather conditions in the form of heavy rains and electrical storm activity are expected...

2013-11-05 | Telkom business launches leading edge security offering

Today Telkom Business introduced Consolidated Threat Management (CTM) to...

2013-11-04 | Chairman of the Telkom Foundation Trust appointed

Telkom today announced the appointment of Professors Loyiso Nongxa as Chairman of the Telkom Foundation Trust...

2013-11-04 | Telkom, ABSA to provide more value to customers

Telkom today announced that it has signed a collaboration agreement with Absa and...

2013-11-01 | Telkom Business, Damelin in groundbreaking mobile deal

Telkom Business has recently partnered with South Africa's largest private education provider...

2013-10-31 | Telkom Business, Damelin in groundbreaking mobile deal

Telkom today announced more internet speed upgrades for existing consumer and business customers following...

2013-10-28 | The SIM-SONKE mobile price revolution spreads across South Africa

Telkom's mobile division announced that SIM-SONKE subscribers will now be able to make calls from anywhere...

2013-10-25 | Clarification relating to suspension of Telkom CFO

Telkom has noted speculation that the suspension of the CFO, Jacques Schindehütte, announced on 24 October 2013...

2013-10-25 | Telkom and ABSA collaborate on CSI initiative

A partnership between Telkom and ABSA today saw the delivery of two fully equipped mobile audio visual libraries...

2013-10-24 | Suspension of Telkom GCFO

The Board of Telkom has suspended the company’s Chief Financial Officer, Mr Jacques Schindehütte, pending...

2013-10-21 | Telkom announces new Chief Information Officer

Telkom today announced the appointment of seasoned IT veteran Mr Len de Villiers as Chief Information Officer effective as of...

2013-10-15 | Telkom marks big improvement in independent survey of service

Telkom has marked significant improvement in service levels of key business units this year, as measured by the annual independent Orange Index survey of consumer...

2013-10-09 | Telkom breaks speed barrier

Telkom is showcasing its latest innovation at the MyBroadband conference taking place at Gallagher Estate...

2013-10-09 | Telkom scoops broadband awards

Telkom was today awarded "Best fixed broadband service provider in SA" and "Best mobile broadband operator in SA" at the annual MyBroadband Conference...

2013-10-07 | Beware of potential fraudsters, warns Telkom

Criminals are targeting unsuspecting Telkom customers with the aim of either defrauding them of cash or acquiring their personal details...

2013-10-04 | Telkom's mobile broadband puts speed and quality into gaming experience

Telkom's HomeOffice LTE offer promises twice the speed and three times the quality of standard 3G services...

2013-10-04 | Telkom frees data for movies and gaming

Telkom today announced that it will offer its SoftCap customers uncapped data for video and gaming services to maximise the value of the latest bandwidth hungry devices and...

2013-09-29 | Telkom AGM indicative of change

Telkom considers its Annual General Meeting, conducted on Friday, 27 September, a success as all proposed resolutions...

2013-09-20 | Telkom's access network revamp boosts ADSL speeds

Telkom today announced to all resellers of ADSL services that users are set to benefit from planned speed upgrades at no additional cost...

2013-09-19 | Telkom announces wholesale price reductions

Telkom today announced tariff reductions on certain wholesale products in keeping with the obligations in...

2013-09-17 | Schools to benefit from Telkom Knockout

The Telkom Foundation has partnered with the Telkom Knockout to provide connectivity to selected under-privileged schools...

2013-09-06 | Resignation of Bashier Sallie, Managing Director: Wholesale and Networks

Telkom Group CEO, Sipho Maseko, today announced the resignation of Bashier Sallie, Managing Director: Wholesale and Networks...

2013-09-03 | Telkom Business frees SME's voice

Telkom Business today announced the launch of Business Circle, a truly converged voice product that is...

2013-09-02 | Telkom delivers unrivalled internet service

Telkom Internet today announced a revolutionary offer that gives customers free anytime data for...

2013-08-28 | Telkom launches Open Innovation Mega Challenge

Telkom today announced the Open Innovation "Mega Challenge" to all South African innovators...

2013-08-28 | New Generation converged services core network goes live

Telkom has announced that its all new Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) core has now been switched on...

2013-08-27 | Students showcase research at SATNAC 2013

The South African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) is recognised for the platform afforded to young scientists and engineers to share views on key challenges facing the industry and to...

2013-08-23 | Telkom congratulates the Business Women of the Year winners

Telkom congratulates Dr Thandi Ndlovu, Executive Chairman and CEO of Motheo Construction Group and Ms Cristine Teixeira, CFO of Group Five Limited...

2013-08-22 | SATNAC delivers industry's best

The Southern African Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) proudly announced today that...

2013-08-16 | Telkom works to resolve D-Link modem issue

Telkom is aware that some of its customers using D-Link modems are experiencing connectivity and internet browsing issues...

2013-08-13 | Telkom offers free additional IP Connect capacity

Telkom today announced that it will provide five percent additional IP connect capacity to...

2013-08-05 | Telkom signs labour agreement with second largest union - SACU

Telkom today announced the conclusion of its substantive negotiations with trade unions the...

2013-08-02 | Business Uncapped Launched For SMES

Telkom launched its Business Uncapped Internet Usage Plan yesterday. With this launch the Company now has a range...

2013-08-01 | Telkom implements Substantive Agreement for all employees within the defined bargaining unit

Following the signing of the substantive agreement between Telkom and Communication Workers Union last week...

2013-08-01 | Telkom earns international certification for excellence in IT service management

Telkom has obtained ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011 accreditation for its IT services management (ITSM) system...

2013-07-30 | SATNAC 2013 unpacks socio-economic benefits of broadband

The Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) will this year seek to...

2013-07-26 | Telkom states the facts

elkom believes that the labour agreement signed on Thursday with the majority union, the Communication Workers Union (CWU)...

2013-07-25 | Telkom and Organised Labour sign a three-year agreement

Telkom today signed a three-year labour agreement with the majority union, the Communication Workers Union (CWU)...

2013-07-24 | Telkom Business enables voice costs reduction for SMEs - A first in SA

The Convergence SingleRate offering is the first of its kind in the market today. At an out-of-bundle rate of 79c per minute to all networks at any time...

2013-07-18 | Telkom welcomes Competition Tribunal confirmation

Telkom has welcomed today's formal confirmation by the Competition Tribunal of the settlement agreement reached between the company...

2013-07-18 | Telkom kicks off nationwide Mandela Day campaign

Telkom and its employees in all nine provinces across South Africa have embarked on a campaign to lend a hand of...

2013-07-04 | Cable thieves hit Pretoria exchange

Telkom services to over 3000 residential, corporate and business customers in Akasia, Pretoria have been disrupted due to extensive cable theft...

2013-07-04 | We are Convergence, says Telkom Business

Telkom Business is claiming its position as South Africa's converged solutions enabler in its...

2013-07-04 | Telkom participates in art therapy workshop

Telkom recently volunteered in an art therapy workshop aimed at assisting 80 vulnerable children from...

2013-06-28 | Telkom's tariff adjustments below inflation

Telkom has set its increase on basic voice and data connectivity services at an overall 1.3% - far below the Consumer Price...

2013-06-14 | Telkom's Superfast Broadband rollout speeds ahead

Telkom has reached a significant milestone in the deployment of its network transformation programme with the cutover of 240 Multi Service Access Node (MSAN) units...

2013-06-20 | Cable theft affects Telkom services

Telkom services in the Ferndale and Strydom Park, Randburg area have been disrupted as a result of...

2013-06-18 | Telkom Business customers win ICT makeovers

Telkom Business has officially granted Business & ICT makeovers worth...

2013-06-14 | Telkom is taking bold action to improve company performance

Group salient features for year ended 31 March 2013...

2013-06-11 | Telkom confirms R12 billion non-cash impairment of legacy network

Telkom today announced that following a review by its board, it has taken a decision to...

2013-06-10 | Telkom Mobile Launches the New BlackBerry Q10 Smartphone in South Africa

The power of BlackBerry 10 with a Classic BlackBerry Keyboard...

2013-06-08 | Telkom restores ADSL services

On Friday, 7 June at 15h30, Telkom performed scheduled planned maintenance work to add new IP addresses to the ADSL network...

2013-06-05 | Telkom considers non-cash impairment of legacy assets

Telkom has today announced that its board of directors is considering impairing the carrying value of the Group’s legacy network...

2013-06-03 | Telkom promotes literacy with Rally to Read

The Telkom Foundation this past weekend joined the Read Trust for another Rally to Read...

2013-05-16 | Telkom Mobile announces pre-orders for the new BlackBerry Q10 smartphone

The power of BlackBerry 10 with a Classic BlackBerry Keyboard...

2013-05-15 | Telkom appoints Head of Strategy

Telkom GCEO Sipho Maseko today announced the appointment of Dr Miriam Altman as Head of Strategy of Telkom Group with effect from 1 June 2013...

2013-05-06 | Major cable theft affects services

Theft of a major copper cable in the City Deep exchange area has resulted in the disruption of Telkom services...

2013-04-29 | Telkom Mobile unveils premium voice products

Telkom Mobile's new generation of premium contracts are aimed at delivering on the demands of voice-centric customers...

2013-04-29 | Telkom executive gives back to alma mater

Mr Iqbal Moolla, Telkom's Executive of Shared Services has officially opened a state-of-the-art IT Centre at...

2013-04-25 | Telkom Mobile offers free unlimited Wi-Fi access

Telkom Mobile offers free unlimited Wi-Fi access at over 400 hotspots across the country to subscribers on qualifying plans...

2013-04-29 | Cable theft causes major disruptions

Telkom services in the Hennopspark, Akasia and Rietvlei exchange areas were disrupted last night when cable thieves cut and removed several main...

2013-04-22 | Telkom Mobile takes aim at data prices

Telkom Mobile today unveiled a new range of data offerings aimed at slashing prices to offer the best...

2013-04-16 | Telkom and Competition Commission reach agreement on R449m fine

Telkom today announced that it had reached an agreement with the Competition Commission to pay a fine of R449-million that was awarded by the Competition Tribunal in August 2012...

2013-04-12 | Telkom supports African Daughter initiative

The Telkom Foundation today announced the full sponsorship of the Future of the African Daughter (FOTAD) programme for 20 girls...

2013-04-09 | Telkom first to launch unlimited on-net calling on new mobile plans

This week Telkom Business launches the latest in a range of new mobile plans that aim to help businesses...

2013-04-08 | Telkom executive takes computers to needy youth

Mr Manelisa Mavuso, Telkom’s Managing Director for Consumer Services and Retail visited the Othandweni Family Care Centre on Friday...

2013-03-28 | Telkom appoints GCEO

The Telkom Board today announced the appointment of telecommunications executive Sipho Maseko as Group Chief Executive Officer...

2013-03-20 | Telkom dismisses speculation of 13 000 retrenchments

Telkom is aware of speculation regarding retrenchment of some 13 000 employees and wishes to place it on record that no such decision has been taken...

2013-03-19 | Telkom Mobile launches as high-quality network

Big leap forward for convergence strategy...

2013-03-18 | Supreme Court of Appeal rules in Telkom’s favour

The matter between ZTE Mzansi and Telkom was concluded today in favour of Telkom ...

2013-03-11 | Telkom offers Voluntary Separation and Early Retirement Packages

Telkom has announced to its employees that management and bargaining unit staff will be afforded the opportunity of applying for voluntary severance(VSPs) and...

2013-03-07 | Telkom Art Space features Pat Mautloa

Telkom today opened the Pat Mautloa exhibition in its Art Space. He has three artworks in the Telkom Art Collection...

2013-03-06 | 8•ta clinches PSL partnership deal

African telecommunication giant Telkom announced today that 8•ta will be the official mobile partner of the Premier Soccer League (PSL)...

2013-03-01 | 8•ta announces availability of the BlackBerry Z10 smartphone in South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa - 8•ta today announced that the new BlackBerry® Z10 smartphone 10 is now available...

2013-02-27 | Telkom trains 350 entrepreneurs

Telkom Foundation today launched its Entrepreneurship Programme aimed at up-skilling young...

2013-02-26 | Industrial action delays statement delivery

Telkom has been made aware that industrial action at the South African Post Office is currently affecting...

2013-02-26 | Telkom launches higher speed broadband

Telkom Internet will on 4 March launch game-changing VDSL-based broadband products that...

2013-02-25 | Telkom broadband trial yields outstanding speed

Telkom is pleased to report that its high-speed broadband trial has been successful...

2013-02-13 | Telkom employees donate R1.9m

Telkom employees, through The Giving Organisation Trust (TGO), have made contributions...

2013-02-13 | Telkom connects Mpumalanga schools

The Telkom Foundation and six schools in Mpumalanga are today celebrating the handing over of 303 tablets to teachers as part of its Connecting Schools Project...

2013-02-12 | Telkom's AFCON operations a success

Telkom is pleased to report smooth operations for the duration of the 2013 African Cup of Nations (AFCON)...

2013-01-28 | Telkom reaches customers on social media

In a move to engage customers in a more accessible way, Telkom today unveiled its presence on three popular social media sites: Facebook, Twitter...

2013-01-25 | Telkom warns of call centre advert scam

Telkom wishes to warn the public of a hoax advertisement claiming that Telkom is looking to hire call centre...

2013-01-24 | Telkom reaches customers on social media

Telkom Internet will lower the prices on its uncapped offerings effective 1 February 2013...

2013-01-18 | Telkom prepared for rainy season

Telkom urges customers to take precautionary measures over the weekend due to the high levels...

2013-01-18 | Telkom ready for AFCON 2013

Telkom welcomes the start of the much anticipated 2013 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) and is geared...

2013-01-04 | Telkom Internet introduces unlimited browsing on capped offers

Telkom will be upgrading its internet network from 1 February 2013...