MTN and Bharti decided to terminate merger talks, the national treasury said on Wednesday after talks between finance minister Pravin…
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India’s top mobile company Bharti Airtel said on Wednesday it and SA cellular flagship MTN Group had decided to end…
SA consumers got their first taste of a broadband price war last week when a small Internet service provider, Afrihost, slashed the price of bandwidth to below cost. It’s a promising start, but matters little until Telkom is forced to open its network to rivals. It was a ballsy move. Last week, Afrihost cut the cost of fixed-line bandwidth on broadband digital subscriber lines to just R29/GB. To put that in perspective, the average selling price for this type of bandwidth has, until now, been R50-R70/GB
Apple introduced its first iPod on 23 October 2001. Almost eight years later, and no other product has come close…
JSE-listed technology group Altech is considering ramping up its investments in telecommunications infrastructure in SA and West Africa, effectively replicating…
Shares in Bharti Airtel rose Tuesday as investors awaited an announcement by the top Indian mobile firm and SA’s flagship…
First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan unwittingly sparked a public debate on the future of newspapers recently. Writing in the bank’s weekly e-mail newsletter, he asked employees whether they’d be willing to help the company save more than R1m/ year — and spare the environment — by reading news online instead of having it subscribe to newspapers. Business Day editor Peter Bruce picked up on this communication and challenged Jordaan’s views in defence of his paper’s print income stream
The SA Post Office said on Tuesday its banking unit will become a separate company. Postbank would be “corporatised” in…
Nearly half a million South Africans have ported their telephone numbers from one mobile network operator to another. That’s the…