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Telkom to go mobile
ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa), 24
February 2008
All
the signs are there that Telkom wants to go mobile or start mobile operations of
their own. This is the despite the fact that Telkom refuses to comment on the matter. Will Telkom become South
Africa’s fourth mobile network operator?
The Internet giant, Google, has made
it clear that they intent to penetrate the mobile market in South Africa. This in itself is a good enough reason
for Telkom to start mobile operations of their own, because Google will certainly not waste money and resources to
penetrate a dying or stagnating market. ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa) don’t
believe that fixed-line based technologies such as ADSL will disappear off the scene, but we do believe that
traditional telephony which make use of fixed-lines, will disappear off the scene at the end of the day, or at
least, take a back seat.
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