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Telkom’s value tumbles R2bn on earnings warning
06 November 2019 - 00:07
Telkom lost more than R2bn of its value on Tuesday after the telecoms group issued a profit warning flagging a drop in halfyear profit, weighed down by costs related to its investment in its fledgling mobile network.
Under CEO Sipho Maseko, Telkom, which runs SA’s biggest fixed-line telecom network, is in the middle of transforming itself into a modern telecommunications provider with heavy investments in its mobile phone unit and capitalising on its extensive fibre infrastructure to sell internet services...
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