{"id":102195,"date":"2014-05-19T10:59:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T08:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=102195"},"modified":"2014-05-19T11:39:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T09:39:41","slug":"telkoms-invincible-network-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/102195-telkoms-invincible-network-plans.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom\u2019s &#8220;invincible network&#8221; plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Telkom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227037-Telkom\">Telkom<\/a> CEO <a title=\"Sipho Maseko\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/338963-Sipho-Maseko\">Sipho Maseko<\/a> said that Telkom is planning to improve its network to make it \u201cmore robust and more invincible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to staff, Maseko said that Telkom\u2019s network team has many objectives which they need to meet.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Telkom will continue to invest in its top 600 exchanges, which generated 90% of the company\u2019s revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom is planning to optimise its bottom 1,400 exchanges, and manage them in such a way that there is not more invested in these exchanges than the revenue they create for the company.<\/p>\n<p>Maseko said that Telkom is planning to accelerate its next generation network rollout to make sure they get high speed broadband into people\u2019s homes.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom is also looking to integrate mobile and fixed networks, and strengthen the field force efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Maseko said that Telkom wants to make sure that they have the right levels of spectrum so that they compete effectively.<\/p>\n<p>He added that they are working to get the right alternatives around local loop unbundling to ensure that Telkom is not prejudiced by this planned intervention.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Telkom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom planning more mergers, acquisitions\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/101792-telkom-planning-more-mergers-acquisitions.html\"><strong>Telkom planning more mergers, acquisitions<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" title=\"MTN, Telkom Mobile deal to boost 4G data\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/101312-mtn-telkom-mobile-deal-to-boost-4g-data.html\"><strong>MTN, Telkom Mobile deal to boost 4G data<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom stores leading to huge losses\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/101696-telkom-stores-leading-to-huge-losses.html\"><strong>Telkom stores leading to huge losses<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom job cut plans\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/101674-telkom-job-cut-plans.html\"><strong>Telkom job cut plans<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko said that they want to make Telkom\u2019s network more robust and more invincible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":92653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,35,279,109,24967],"class_list":["post-102195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-broadband-2","tag-headline","tag-sipho-maseko","tag-telkom","tag-telkom-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}