{"id":551769,"date":"2007-03-14T15:53:16","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T15:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551769-vodacom-snaps-up-beelders.html"},"modified":"2007-03-14T15:53:16","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T15:53:16","slug":"vodacom-snaps-up-beelders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551769-vodacom-snaps-up-beelders.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom snaps up Beelders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">He will look after broadband and &quot;virtual private network&quot; (VPN) initiatives for the cellphone group. His resignation has set tongues wagging in the industry about the likely reasons for his sudden departure after three decades of working for the fixed-line operator. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/wiki\/index.php\/Wally_Beelders\">Beelders<\/a> was one of Telkom&#8217;s most senior and respected executives. He was promoted to chief sales and marketing officer less than 18 months ago, taking the job from Nombulelo &quot;Pinky&quot; Moholi, who resigned after she and two other senior executives fell out with then newly appointed CEO Papi Molotsane. Godfrey Ntoele will fill Beelders&#8217; job until a replacement is found.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Vodacom spokesman Dot Field says: &quot;I can confirm that Wally will be joining Vodacom and will be involved mainly in broadening our broadband and VPN capabilities.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Field&#8217;s comments lend credence to market talk that Vodacom, 50% owned by Telkom, is planning to get into the Internet service provider business, either by starting a new company from scratch or, more likely, by making an acquisition.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=69170\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing Telkom chief sales and marketing officer Wally Beelders, who surprised the industry by resigning last week, will soon take up a job at Vodacom, the Financial Mail has established.<\/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-551769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551769"}],"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=551769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}