{"id":14899,"date":"2012-06-12T11:53:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T09:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=14899"},"modified":"2012-06-12T11:55:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T09:55:57","slug":"8ta-md-appointment-expected-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/14899\/8ta-md-appointment-expected-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"8ta MD appointment expected soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interim head of Telkom\u2019s<\/a> mobile arm and chief financial officer of Telkom SA, Jacques Schindehutte<\/a>, said that a permanent appointment to head up 8ta is expected within a month.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a number of options on the table,\u201d he said adding that the list contained both oversees based, and local candidates. \u201cWe will be taking a decision in the next month,\u201d Schindehutte said adding that the Telkom had whittled the pool down to five candidates.<\/p>\n

As early as January, it was established that Amith Maharaj<\/a>, who headed up 8ta<\/a>, would step down from his post and become senior managing executive for Telkom Mobile Operations.\u00a0Maharaj moved over to take charge of Telkom Mobile marketing, IT and networks.<\/p>\n

8ta achieved revenue of R1.200 billion and an EBITDA<\/a> loss before inter-segmental eliminations of R2.425 billion for the year ended 31 March 2012.<\/p>\n

Total revenue generating subscribers equalled 1,483,401 with pre-paid contributing 1,039,448 and post-paid 443,953. Pre-paid ARPU<\/a> was R20.89 and post-paid ARPU R206.83. Blended ARPU was R68.86.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the 2013 financial year we aim to reduce our EBITDA losses in mobile by approximately 20% and plan to invest between R2 billion and R2.5 billion in capital expenditure,\u201d Telkom said.<\/p>\n

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Telkom looking for new Telkom Mobile head?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Telkom is close to appointing a candidate to head up its mobile division, 8ta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,21],"tags":[407,409,26,1079,65],"class_list":["post-14899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-telecommunications","tag-8ta","tag-amith-maharaj","tag-headline","tag-jacques-schindehutte","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14899"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15178,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14899\/revisions\/15178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}