{"id":547801,"date":"2006-01-23T14:24:42","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T14:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547801-telkom-subsidiary-still-seeks-bee-partner.html"},"modified":"2006-01-23T14:24:42","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T14:24:42","slug":"telkom-subsidiary-still-seeks-bee-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547801-telkom-subsidiary-still-seeks-bee-partner.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom subsidiary &#8216;still seeks&#8217; BEE partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Spokesperson Candice Jeffreys says negotiations with two prospective BEE partners have fallen through in recent months, and Telkom is not presently in talks with a company. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Part of the licensing agreement is that we are required to have a 30% BEE partner,&quot; she says. Jeffreys was unable to disclose the deadline imposed by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) to find a partner. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;All I can say is that we still have time to find a suitable partner,&quot; she says. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Telkom would not disclose the reasons the previous two sets of talks fell through. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Swiftnet, trading as Fastnet Wireless Service, provides services in the credit card security, fleet management and cheque verification sectors. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The agreement reached between Icasa and Telkom that Swiftnet would take on a BEE partner occurred in the second half of 2004, says Lee-Ann Cassie, telecommunications enforcement manager at Telkom. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">In 2001 Telkom bought the remaining 40% in Swiftnet that it did not already own, from empowerment group VHR Wireless. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><i>INet-Bridge<\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom is again in the process of finding a black economic empowerment partner for its wholly owned subsidiary, Swiftnet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547801"}],"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=547801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}