{"id":549681,"date":"2006-07-28T07:17:49","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T07:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549681-preparing-the-gateway.html"},"modified":"2006-07-28T07:17:49","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T07:17:49","slug":"preparing-the-gateway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549681-preparing-the-gateway.html","title":{"rendered":"PREPARING THE GATEWAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Maharaj, who heads wholesale services, will join Vodacom, Telkom\u2019s 50%-owned affiliate company, from August 1. Her new position will be similar to the one she is leaving. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cI will be starting up Vodacom\u2019s wholesale division,\u201d Maharaj says. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The Electronic Communications Act, recently signed into law by President Thabo Mbeki, will allow SA\u2019s cellular operators to provide a range of services they haven\u2019t in the past. One of these is an international gateway service providing bandwidth \u2014 voice and data \u2014 to other service providers in the market. Previously, only Telkom and Sentech had the right to carry international telecommunications traffic. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Maharaj says she wants to explore other opportunities, too, such as the possibility of signing up mobile virtual network operators which will use Vodacom\u2019s infrastructure to provide services under their own brands, much as Virgin Mobile has done with Cell C <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Maharaj, who has a BCom degree and a master\u2019s in business leadership, joined Telkom in 1995 as an auditor. She has been involved in Telkom\u2019s international and wholesale services business since 2000. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">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. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Inet-Bridge ||\u00a0 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=49114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Telkom\u2019s rising stars, managing executive Minnie Maharaj, has resigned from the fixed-line operator. <\/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-549681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549681"}],"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=549681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}