{"id":69771,"date":"2014-09-30T10:37:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T08:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=69771"},"modified":"2014-09-30T10:42:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T08:42:42","slug":"telkom-teases-content-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/69771\/telkom-teases-content-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom to reveal content plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom will enter the content and media market, with an official announcement expected within weeks.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to Telkom COO Brian Armstrong.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the 2014 MyBroadband conference, Armstrong said that for them it is not being first to market, but rather \u201cright to market\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong would not divulge any further details about the media plan, but said that the company had learned from its mistakes with Telkom Media a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Watch this space, there&#8217;s more to come in a few weeks&#8217; time,&#8221; Armstrong said.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks South Africa saw a few new media players emerge, including Times Media\u2019s Vidi and Altech\u2019s Node product.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Telkom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom fibre-to-the-home to be a premium service\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/67420\/telkom-fibre-to-the-home-to-be-a-premium-service\/\"><strong>Telkom fibre-to-the-home to be a premium service<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom enables single number use\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/67644\/telkom-enables-single-number-use\/\"><strong>Telkom enables single number use<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom fibre-to-the-home to be a premium service\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/67420\/telkom-fibre-to-the-home-to-be-a-premium-service\/\"><strong>Telkom fibre-to-the-home to be a premium service<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom drops Telkom Mobile in rebrand\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/66850\/telkom-drops-telkom-mobile-in-rebrand\/\"><strong>Telkom drops Telkom Mobile in rebrand<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom will enter the content and media market, with an official announcement expected within weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":66856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2997,4682,26,65],"class_list":["post-69771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-brian-armstrong","tag-content","tag-headline","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69771","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=69771"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69779,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69771\/revisions\/69779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}