Japan’s NTT Corp has launched NTT Ltd following the merger of NTT Communications, Dimension Data and NTT Security into a single, $11-billion business. It will be headquartered in London and led by Jason Goodall.
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Google and Facebook are in a race to surround Africa with high-capacity subsea broadband infrastructure, with the former announcing that the first phase of its project, which will connect South Africa to Portugal, will be ready for service in 2021.
S&P Global Ratings has downgraded Cell C’s debt rating further after the troubled mobile operator amended a private “airtime facility” agreement that the agency described as being “tantamount to a selective default”.
TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod spoke to Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk about the group’s acquisition, through Naspers Foundry, of a stake in SweepSouth, the controversy over the group’s dual shareholding structure, and more.
Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk believes cryptocurrencies could have a huge and positive impact on societies by allowing for frictionless and costless transfer of value between people.
In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about the looming layoffs at MultiChoice and what precipitated the move.
A jobs bloodbath is looming at pay-television operator MultiChoice Group, which said on Friday it will enter into a “consultation process” with 2 194 of its employees as part of a “strategic realignment of its customer service delivery model”.
Naspers has finally given a name to its new global consumer Internet group, which it intends listing on Euronext Amsterdam in September, with an inward listing on the JSE.
Naspers has elected to cancel and reschedule a meeting of shareholders to approve the listing of its international Internet assets in Europe, with the target date for the listing now set for September.
The communications minister will issue a policy direction to Icasa within a month, allowing broadband spectrum to be allocated to mobile operators, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his state of the nation address.