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  By   Daniel Puchert Partially state-owned telecommunications company Telkom announced in its financial results for the year ending 31 March 2025 that its ADSL subscribers had more than halved to under 30,000. According to the company’s operational data, ADSL lines decreased from 64,959 in March 2024 to 29,770. This 54.2% decline highlights that the legacy broadband technology is slowly approaching the end of the road. Telkom’s ADSL business peaked at the end of March 2016 with 1.01 million subscribers — two years after fibre upstart Vumatel  broke ground in Parkhurst . What followed was a sharp decline in Telkom ADSL subscribers. Customers connected to its copper networks decreased by more than 500,000 over the next four years. This was partly driven by Telkom itself, which began actively switching off its copper network in some neighbourhoods. If it did not have fibre in the area, it would offer a “fixed line lookalike” wireless service that ran over its cellular ...
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Bill Gates’ affairs open secret, 'someone in Melinda’s inner circle hired PI before she filed for divorce'

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 Ashley Collman , Business Insider US

 Jun 08, 2021, 01:32 PM
Melinda French Gates and Bill Gates.
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  • Vanity Fair has published new details on the Gates' marriage.
  • The report said Bill Gates had affairs that were an open secret to those around him.
  • Someone close to Melinda French Gates also worked with a private investigator, the report said.
  • For more stories go to www.BusinessInsider.co.za.

Since Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates announced they were divorcing last month, multiple reports have called into question the billionaire Microsoft founder's reputation as a nerdy do-gooder, with allegations that he engaged in inappropriate workplace relationships.

A new report from Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman, Nick Bilton, and Emily Jane Fox, published on Monday, suggested that Bill Gates' affairs were known to people around him. People close to Gates told the magazine that his affairs weren't a secret to those around him.

Two sources also told Vanity Fair that someone in French Gates' inner circle had worked with a private investigator leading up to the divorce.

A spokesperson for French Gates told Vanity Fair: "Neither Melinda nor anyone at her direction ever hired a private investigator."

Insider has contacted representatives of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates for comment.

One former employee told Vanity Fair that there were signs of Bill's possible cheating in the way he swapped cars at the office.

The source told the magazine that sometimes Gates would drive a Mercedes into work, only to drive off an hour later in a golden brown Porsche brought by his security personnel.

"We all assumed that it was when he was with women," the employee told Vanity Fair. "I knew there were many offsite meetings that were not on his calendar."

However, another source close to Gates told the magazine that it was unlike him to disappear from the office, saying he was "one of the most intensely scheduled people on the planet."

The Vanity Fair report on Gates' behaviour is one of many that have emerged since the divorce filing.

On May 16, two weeks after the couple announced their divorce, The New York Times reported that Gates pursued women at Microsoft while he was married.

The Wall Street Journal later reported that Microsoft's board opened an investigation into Bill in 2019, following a staffer's claim that she had an affair with him.

Bill stepped down from the board in 2020, but his spokesperson said it had nothing to do with the inquiry.

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