In 1997, Telkom, the South African telecommunications parastatal, was partly privatised and entered into a strategic equity partnership with a consortium of two companies, including SBC, a U. S. telecommunications company.

A Second Network Operator was to be licensed to compete with Telkom across its spectrum of services in 2002, although this license was only officially handed over in late 2005 and has recently begun operating under the name, Neotel.

In 1993 GSM was demonstrated for the first time in Africa at Telkom ' 93 in Cape Town.

* South Africa: Videotex was introduced by Telkom in 1986 and named Beltel.

Telkom Media was also granted an IPTV licence.

Another early WISP was a company called Internet Office Parks in Johannesburg, South Africa that was founded by Roy Pater, Brett Airey and Attila Barath in January 1996 when they realized the South African Telco, Telkom could not keep up with the demand for dedicated Internet links for business use.

Strijdom Tower until 1995 shortly after the conclusion of apartheid when it was renamed the Telkom Hillbrow Tower.

Initially named the JG Strijdom Tower, it became popularly known simply as the Hillbrow tower, and in May 2005 it was renamed to Telkom Joburg Tower, with its new name displayed prominently in lights.

On 31 May 2005 it was renamed the Telkom Jo ' burg Tower.

The tower was constructed for what became Telkom, South Africa's government run and the country's largest telecommunications company.

In 1999 KPTC was split into the Communication Commission of Kenya ( CCK ), the Postal Corporation of Kenya ( POSTA ) and Telkom Kenya.

Africa Online was bought by Telkom South Africa in 2007.

Telkom was managed by US-based SBC Communications ( now AT & T ) from 1997 to 2004.

The page was used as a public outcry, detailing some of the things Telkom has done in hopes of bringing more attention to the current situation in South Africa's telecoms industry.

Perhaps one of the biggest criticisms of Telkom was its introduction of a monthly traffic limit or " cap ".

According to Telkom, this was a measure instituted in order for the South African network not to become " congested " with an overflow of information.

Another major criticism of Telkom was its institution of port prioritization or " shaping ".

This also was a measure introduced by Telkom in order for networks throughout South Africa not to become congested with too much information.

He was winner of the online category in the Telkom ICT Journalist of the Year awards for 2003, and was runner-up in the lifestyle category for 2002 and the business magazine category in 2004.

Even Telkom Media which was supposed to operate satellite services as well as IPTV services such as video-on-demand, never took off and was subsequently sold to Shenzhen Media South Africa.

Inspired by RFC 2549, on 9 September 2009, the marketing team of The Unlimited, a regional company in South Africa, decided to host a tongue-in-cheek " Pigeon Race " between their pet pigeon " Winston " and local telecom company Telkom SA.

Among the outreach programmes, the Telkom Centre of Excellence maintains a " living laboratory " of 4 schools at Dwesa on the Wild Coast, which have introduced computer labs and internet access to areas that until 2005 did not even have electricity.

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The successful applicants were Walking on Water, a dedicated Christian service, On Digital Media, a broad-spectrum entertainment offering, e-Sat, a satellite service from e. tv and Telkom Media, a company 66 % owned by telecommunications operator Telkom.

Telkom International focuses on Telkom's growth into the African continent, most predominantly, its investment into Multilinks, Africa Online and MWEB Africa.

However, on 13 January 2011, TechCentral reported that Hedberg will quit Telkom by the end of March 2011, citing that he felt that he would not be given the mandate he needed to fix Telkom commercially and operationally.

Telkom SA operates 4. 5M fixed access lines, bases on its 2008 annual report.

Telkom have released an 10 Mbit ADSL 2 + service for a limited amount of " Fastest " users on 15 August 2010.

Telkom will be roaming on the MTN network outside its coverage.

Multi-Links is a private telecommunications operator ( as of 2009 a wholly owned Telkom subsidiary ) with a Unified Access License allowing fixed, mobile, data, long distance and international telecommunications services focused primarily on corporate clients in Nigeria.

Telkom has also attracted attention for improperly conducting itself in a contract dispute with Telcordia on account of non-delivery of an integrated FlowThru solution, resulting in a decision from the Supreme Court of Appeal against its favor in which the judge described Telkom's legal team as conducting " verbal manipulation ".

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It was established on September 28, 1990 by the Telkom Education Foundation, which is owned by PT Telkom, the semi-privatized government-owned telecommunication company of Indonesia.

IT Telkom focuses on the program to support the development of telecommunication technologies and industries by providing skilled professionals.

He has worked on highly successful projects for clients such as Telkom, Old Mutual, Avmin, Pick ' n Pay, SABC Education and the Human Rights Commission.

It was owned on a 50: 50 basis by the South African telecommunications group Telkom and the British mobile phone operator Vodafone.

On 6 November 2008 Vodafone announced that it had agreed to increase its stake to 65 %, and Telkom said that it would spin off its remaining holding by listing it on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

Kansteiner advised the buy side on the $ 1. 3 billion privatization of Telkom South Africa, to date the largest privatization in Africa.

Today, Spescom is a major supplier to large African communication organisations including Telkom, Neotel and Sentech public South African and regional television and radio broadcasters ; large financial institutions, public sector clients and some of the largest contact centres on the African continent.

In September 2009, a South African IT company, based in Durban, pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a data packed 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest internet service provider, Telkom.

* In September 2009, Durban company Unlimited IT reportedly pitted a carrier pigeon against South African ISP Telkom to transfer 4 GB of data from Howick to Durban.

As of 2 September 2012, Telkom have begun the process of trialing 40Mbps VDSL and FTTx.