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  1. D

    Vox migrating LTE / 5G from MTN to Telkom

    Has anyone else seen a notification from Vox that they're migrating their LTE / 5G service from MTN to Telkom as of 1 August? Does anyone know why they would be doing that? Surely MTN is better?
    • Dean
    • Thread
    • lte mobile 4g lte broadband mobile 5g mtn telkom vox
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: MTN Mobile Data
  3. Luis

    Police seize 1.6 tonnes of copper cables from alleged Eastern Cape thieves

    Police seize 1.6 tonnes of copper cables from alleged Eastern Cape thieves The South African Police Service (SAPS) arrested nine suspects for the possession of 1.6 tonnes of allegedly stolen copper cables estimated to be worth R600,000. According to officials, the suspects were arrested after...
  4. K

    Afrihost / Telkom Fixed LTE Stopped Working

    I'm using **Telkom Fixed LTE through Afrihost**, and up until recently the service had been working perfectly for about **1–2 years**. My router is a **Huawei B315s-936**. At the beginning of June, Afrihost sent an email saying that Telkom required customers to reboot their routers on **10...
  5. Luis

    Telkom provides a good growth opportunity for investors — Analyst

    Telkom provides a good growth opportunity for investors — Analyst Legacy Family Wealth director Jordan Toy believes Telkom offers a good growth opportunity for investors, particularly due to its wholesale and infrastructure division, Openserve. In its latest annual report, Telkom revealed that...
    • Luis
    • Thread
    • investing investors jordan toy legacy family wealth openserve telkom
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  6. JerryMungo

    Major South African data breaches called into question

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    • JerryMungo
    • Thread
    • breaches cybersecurity data breaches databasehooligan leaks telkom threat actors wanderers club wanderers stadium
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  7. Luis

    The most important legal case in South African telecommunications history

    The most important legal case in South African telecommunications history Former Altech CEO Craig Venter was behind the most important legal case in South African telecommunications history, which opened up the market. Venter was born in 1962. He is the son of Altron founder Bill Venter and...
  8. Luis

    Telkom Foundation clears millions in student debt

    Telkom Foundation clears millions in student debt Telkom Foundation has invested R6.4 million to clear the historical debt of 97 tertiary students and support 21 first-year bursary recipients. The investment spans ten South African institutions and is aimed at helping students graduate in 2025...
  9. Hanno Labuschagne

    MTN has highest MyBroadband Insights' Network Quality Score in Q1 2026

    MTN has highest in MyBroadband Insights' Network Quality Score in Q1 2026 MyBroadband Insights has released its Q1 2026 Mobile Network Quality Report, which shows that MTN has the best mobile network in South Africa. The findings were based on more than 315,000 speed tests conducted by mobile...
  10. Hanno Labuschagne

    Telkom's surprise comeback

    Telkom's surprise comeback Telkom's transition from a struggling, copper-focused service provider to a lean, digital infrastructure firm at such speed and scale was one that few South Africans expected. In the past year, the partially state-owned network operator, and South Africa's oldest...
  11. Hanno Labuschagne

    Cyril Ramaphosa's role in breaking Telkom's monopoly

    Cyril Ramaphosa's role in breaking Telkom's monopoly Before returning to politics, Cyril Ramaphosa was part of a group of investors who helped Seacom defeat government attempts to block the launch of its undersea cable in South Africa. Seacom’s arrival broke Telkom’s monopoly in international...
  12. Hanno Labuschagne

    Afrihost's uncapped 4G and 5G changes

    Afrihost's uncapped 4G and 5G changes Internet service provider (ISP) Afrihost has made significant changes to its fixed-4G and fixed-5G packages, including adding a new fast uncapped option on Vodacom's network for R799 per month. The ISP no longer explicitly distinguishes between its 4G and...
  13. Hanno Labuschagne

    Telkom's Taukobong silencing the sceptics

    Telkom's Taukobong silencing the ckeptics Since his appointment as Telkom Group CEO in 2021, Serame Taukobong has silenced the sceptics by improving the company's finances and making it attractive to investors, a rarity for state-owned firms. Taukobong was born in Soweto on 23 May 1970 and...
  14. Hanno Labuschagne

    The man fought to stop Telkom from dominating South African Internet

    The man fought to stop Telkom from dominating South African Internet Before emigrating to the U.S. and becoming a venture capitalist, David Frankel played a pivotal role in building South Africa’s Internet service provider industry — and fought to keep it out of Telkom’s monopolistic grip...
  15. oros

    Telkom tap 2 win nonsense

    Hi, who noticed the tap to win when you dial *180#? What nonsense. Do you even win? Doesn't even work!
  16. Hanno Labuschagne

    Telkom dividend drought ends

    Telkom dividend drought ends Telkom declared its first dividend in four years after reporting an impressive set of results for its 2024/2025 financial year, including a profit increase of 299% from about R1.9 billion to R7.5 billion. A substantial part of the increase can be attributed to the...
  17. Hanno Labuschagne

    Vodacom and MTN explain why they cannot offer affordable uncapped mobile data plans

    Vodacom and MTN explain why they cannot offer affordable uncapped mobile data plans South Africa's two biggest mobile networks prefer to offer full-speed capped products over throttled uncapped mobile data plans due to local user preferences and potential capacity overloads. In developed...
  18. K

    Vox Speed Issues Since Price Increase

    Ever since Vox added a few hundred rand to our bill, our internet speed has been terrible. This past week has been the worst. We are only getting 8 megabytes per second on a 100 megabyte line, both upload and download. The upload speed test does not even work. It fails every time.
  19. A

    Telkom prepaid sim with unused unexpired LTE bundle stops with OOB message

    I bought a new prepaid sim in December to test Telkom LTE. I loaded a 60 GByte LTE bundle (valid 61 days). Worked great. I used it in my ZTE mifi every other day or so. I have some 50 GByte left until 20 Feb. I popped it into my Huawei B618-65d yesterday (31st Jan). I got a OOB message saying I...
  20. Blade_Runner

    Need to identify this

    Trying to fix up this building and found this. Someone said this is a Telkom junction box? Is this correct? Any ideas how I can get it removed or repaired?
  21. Hanno Labuschagne

    5G expansion going strong in South Africa

    5G expansion going strong in South Africa South Africa's major telecoms companies radically expanded their mobile 5G connectivity and performance in 2024. While the Covid-19 pandemic and load-shedding challenges limited 5G rollouts for the first few years of the technology's availability, the...
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