Telecommunications opereator Neotel has appointed Noel Studti as its new chief sales and marketing officer. Studti, a former IBMer, takes on the role from this month. Studti joins Neotel from the Innovation Group, where he most recently held the position of chief sales officer. He has previously worked closely with
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It is a perversion of SA’s broadband sector that wireless players punch above their weight. More than 21m South Africans use a wireless connection to access the Internet — with a tablet, smartphone or dongle — whereas fewer than 800 000 subscribe to an ADSL broadband connection. This is according to the Organisation for Economic
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Neotel, licensed more than five years ago as the first infrastructure competitor in fixed-line telecommunications to Telkom, has reached positive earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) or the first time. It reached the milestone
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The department of communications is moving to wrest control over management of SA’s scarce radio frequency spectrum from industry regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), a reading of the Electronic Communications
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Neotel reported a total comprehensive loss of R1,8bn in the financial year to end March 2011, the latest annual report from parent Tata Communications has revealed. In 2010, the company turned in a loss of R1,15bn. However, the company’s directors have expressed confidence
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Marc Furman of Internet Solutions and Jaap Scholten of eNetworks have been appointed as co-chairs of the Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa), an industry body. Mike Silber of Liquid Telecom has been named as treasurer. Other members of the management committee
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The long-awaited hearings on local-loop unbundling, the process whereby competitors will be given access in some shape or form to Telkom’s “last mile” of copper-cable infrastructure, kick off on Tuesday at the Independent Communications Authority of SA’s offices
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Neotel has won a contract to run the primary network operating centre, or NOC, for the West Africa Cable System (Wacs), the new, high-capacity submarine system running between Cape Town and London. Wacs is due to be ready for commercial service early next
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State-owned telecommunications company Broadband Infraco has turned in an operating loss of R207m in its 2011 financial year and received a qualified audit opinion from its external auditors, which public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba has described as “of grave
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The National Consumer Commission, established in April to enforce the new Consumer Protection Act, has received objections from all of SA’s big operators, with the exception of Neotel, to the compliance notices it served on them demanding
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