Telkom is potentially looking at announcing a partnership with a hyperscale computing provider soon, CEO Serame Taukobong has told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n
Hyperscalers include players such as Alibaba, Huawei, Oracle, Facebook, Amazon Web Services, SAP, Microsoft, and Google.<\/p>\n
Two of the world\u2019s biggest cloud computing players \u2014 Amazon<\/strong><\/a> and Microsoft<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 have launched data centres in South Africa.<\/p>\n Huawei has also launched<\/strong><\/a> a local data centre, while Oracle, SAP, and Acronis have announced Johannesburg-based cloud regions<\/strong><\/a> for their services.<\/p>\n Africa Data Centres also recently revealed that it was selected for the first African Google Cloud Interconnect<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Taukobong revealed Telkom\u2019s high-level plans in response to questions about the market\u2019s reaction to its annual results, with the company\u2019s share price falling by as much as 14.8%.<\/p>\n At the time of publication, Telkom\u2019s share price was R36.24 \u2014 10.8% lower than Tuesday\u2019s opening price of R40.59.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat the market has certainly been expecting is for us to announce some big-ticket items [to unlock shareholder value],\u201d Taukobong said.<\/p>\n \u201cTo be fair, it\u2019s a conversation that we\u2019ve had with the market.\u201d<\/p>\n The launch of a hyperscaler in its data centres is one of three things Telkom expects to announce soon to unlock that value, Taukobong told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n \u201cHopefully, in the next 3\u20136 months, we\u2019ll drop some significant announcements on real partnerships that start to materialise the value unlock journey,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The two other announcements are around BCX and Openserve.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are looking at getting a strategic partner for BCX to drive scale and capability,\u201d said Taukobong.<\/p>\n He also said Telkom had completed the balance sheet separation of Openserve.<\/p>\n This will allow Telkom\u2019s wholesale and networks division to attract better funding and be more aggressive in the market.<\/p>\n Upstart Vumatel has eaten Telkom\u2019s lunch in the fibre-to-the-home arena since it arrived on the scene in 2014<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Telkom reported in its annual financial results that its fibre network passes 839,691 homes with a connectivity rate of 46.3%.<\/p>\n On the same day Telkom announced its annual financial results, Vumatel revealed in a presentation to Remgro shareholders that its network passes 1.4 million homes with an uptake rate of 33.8%.<\/p>\n Therefore, Vumatel has over 473,000 FTTH customers connected to its fibre network, while Telkom reported 389,109 home fibre subscribers.<\/p>\n Telkom expects to make major announcements in the next 3\u20136 months, including a significant development for its data centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":280695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[35,1355,109],"class_list":["post-449084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-headline","tag-serame-taukobong","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449084"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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