Openserve CEO and Telkom veteran Althon Beukes steps down
Telkom veteran Althon Beukes has stepped down as CEO of the company's wholesale fixed-line division Openserve.
Beukes has worked at the telecoms company for roughly three decades and has been at the helm of Openserve for four and a half...
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Openserve gets capacity on Google's monster undersea cable
Openserve has confirmed that it will have access to a fibre pair on Google’s Equiano undersea cable system.
Each fibre pair offers 12 terabits per second (Tbps) of capacity, and the cable has twelve fibre pairs.
Openserve to separate from Telkom
Telkom has announced that it will legally and structurally separate its wholesale and networks division Openserve from the rest of the business on 1 September 2022.
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Althon Beukes joined Telkom in 1996 as a Senior Manager in Technology Integration. He became the Executive for Infrastructure and Hosting Services in 2004.
Althon has a BSc Degree in Computer Science from the University of the Western Cape and completed an Executive Development Programme in...