Telecoms

The last mile or the final straw?

Big issues in the whole telecoms debate in South Africa are local loop unbundling, carrier pre-select and co-location. What gives?

Sea change for telecoms

South African telecoms seems to be in a permanent state of flux. The landing of Seacom and other cables and new providers entering the market all signify dramatic change. But is this all it’s made out to be?

Telecoms

Janet Paterson

Retail prices will not plummet

Despite what the mainstream media says, it’s unlikely that there will be a sudden drop in mobile call prices, even if the operators reach an agreement on interconnection.

Mobile

Samantha Perry

It’s still about keeping Cell C out

A lower interconnection rate will have several ramifications, as the financials clearly reveal.

Interconnect

Paul Furber

It’s only just begun

Seacom will make a change, but there is still a lot more that needs doing before the telecoms sector can be considered competitive.

Seacom

Candice Jones

Icasa’s god complex

The notion of regulating competitiveness betrays a fundamental failure to grasp what market competition is, and a pathological god complex.

ICASA

Ivo Vegter

Flying solo

Telkom looks set to go it alone in the local cellular market, but prepare for some complexity.

News

Graeme Scala

It`s a duopoly!

In a classic case of stating the obvious, the Competition Commission says there`s no competition in the local telecoms space.

Competition Commission

Samantha Perry

Phoenix rising

When traditional telco giants ruled the contact centre world, not many companies would run a software-based open-standard communications system on a Windows platform. The next thing we heard, the traditional PBX was dead.

In-depth analysis

Patrick Heske

Cables: it's all coming together

For once, government pulls it together and realises the folly of doubling up on cable projects.

News

Damaria Senne

Time running out for WiMax

The window of opportunity appears to be closing before WiMax Technology has stated its business case. Is there still a future for this hyped communications solutions?

In-depth analysis

Rodney Weidemann

Icasa still dragging its heels

While the smaller players await licence conversions, the big players have the market to themselves.

News

Mia Andric

Dawn of telecoms reality

Could 2008 be the year that South Africa's telecoms sector fulfils its potential? Brainstorm takes a look at the key issues that have arisen in the first six months of the year.

In-depth analysis

Rodney Weidemann