{"id":27959,"date":"2012-12-07T13:02:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T11:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=27959"},"modified":"2012-12-07T13:04:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T11:04:28","slug":"telkom-gets-cell-c-ceo-backing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/27959\/telkom-gets-cell-c-ceo-backing\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom gets Cell C CEO backing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cell C CEO, Alan Knott-Craig says that Telkom\u2019s problems are because of decisions made a decade ago, and that Telkom\u2019s current management should not be blamed for the company\u2019s ills.<\/p>\n

Speaking to 702\u2019s Bruce Whitfield, Knott-Craig said that scale is needed to take on the likes of Vodacom and MTN.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the South African market, where dominated players occupy 85% of the market share, you need to get scale,\u201d said Knott-Craig. \u201cYou can either grow the scale, which is what Cell C is doing, which takes time. The quicker way to do it is through some form of merger or acquisition activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked whether there are deals which could be done between Cell C and Telkom, Knott-Craig said that there are definitely deals that could be done which make sense. However, the Cell C CEO said that whether these deals will ever be done is \u201canother question\u201d.<\/p>\n

Knott-Craig downplayed Bruce Whitfields comments that Telkom is a mess, riddled with problems and bureaucratic processes. \u201cTelkom is a good company. They have made a few mistakes, but I would not have a problem with that [with working with Telkom] at all,\u201d said Knott-Craig.<\/p>\n

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Alan Knott-Craig<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cSome of the ills which are plaguing Telkom are not the fault of Telkom\u2019s current management. These are things which were done ten years ago, and Telkom\u2019s current management has to pay the price,\u201d said Knott-Craig.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe forget that some of the things which went wrong were initiated many years ago, and we should really be looking back to who the culprits were.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should not necessarily focus on the current management and think they are doing a bad job. I think they have a tough job trying to get themselves out of this sticky mess.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Cell C CEO says that, despite Telkom’s ills, a deal between the operator and Cell C makes sense – but it is uncertain whether it will ever happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[2139,43,42,26,65],"class_list":["post-27959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-2139","tag-alan-knott-craig","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27959","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27959"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28040,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27959\/revisions\/28040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}