PREPARING THE GATEWAY
Maharaj, who heads wholesale services, will join Vodacom, Telkom’s 50%-owned affiliate company, from August 1. Her new position will be similar to the one she is leaving.
“I will be starting up Vodacom’s wholesale division,” Maharaj says.
The Electronic Communications Act, recently signed into law by President Thabo Mbeki, will allow SA’s cellular operators to provide a range of services they haven’t in the past. One of these is an international gateway service providing bandwidth — voice and data — to other service providers in the market. Previously, only Telkom and Sentech had the right to carry international telecommunications traffic.
Maharaj says she wants to explore other opportunities, too, such as the possibility of signing up mobile virtual network operators which will use Vodacom’s infrastructure to provide services under their own brands, much as Virgin Mobile has done with Cell C
Maharaj, who has a BCom degree and a master’s in business leadership, joined Telkom in 1995 as an auditor. She has been involved in Telkom’s international and wholesale services business since 2000.
No-one has yet been appointed to replace her but she expects Telkom chief sales and marketing officer Wally Beelders to look after her portfolio until a replacement has been found.
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