MWeb dropped a bombshell on the SA Internet industry on Thursday morning when it announced it was slashing the cost of fixed-line broadband and introducing uncapped offerings starting at just R219/month. The move, which brings SA more in line with Internet prices in other markets, could spark a price war among Internet service providers in the next few months.
Telkom, which will become SA’s fourth mobile network operator when it launches commercial wireless services later this year, will sign a national roaming agreement with MTN, multiple independent sources have said.
The apparent deal means Telkom mobile customers will roam on MTN’s network outside the big urban centres where Telkom hasn’t yet built infrastructure.
MTN has beaten [...]
Telecommunications analysts have lauded Cell C for its plan apparently to sell its national network of base stations.
TechCentral reported on Tuesday that Cell C is in talks with American Tower Corp (ATC) and Eaton Telecom to sell its wireless towers, apparently as part of a broader effort to reduce and restructure its crippling long-term debt.
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Consumers should not expect lower retail tariffs to flow from the recent reduction in mobile interconnection rates, as there is “no correlation” between the two concepts.
That’s the view of Vittorio Massone (pictured), newly appointed managing partner in SA at management consulting firm Bain & Company.
Mobile operators Vodacom, MTN and Cell C recently agreed to reduce [...]
Now that MTN has confirmed what was long suspected, that group CEO Phuthuma Nhleko is leaving for pastures new, talk is already turning to who might replace him in the hot seat at Africa’s largest mobile operator.
Though the board is likely to look both internally and externally for a successor, there are several top executives [...]
A decline in revenue was not enough to stop JSE-listed IT services group GijimaAst from reporting a 33% leap in normalised headline earnings per share in the six months to 31 December 2009. It has amassed R623m in cash and declared an interim maiden dividend of 2,5c/share. It’s a significant turnaround for an IT group that little more than five years ago was in dire financial straits
JSE-listed cellphone group Vodacom has come under fire from the Institute of Directors for not disclosing that it was paying former group CEO Alan Knott-Craig a monthly “restraint of trade” fee.
The institute’s CEO, Lindie Engelbrecht (pictured), says the group’s failure to inform shareholders of the payments may be a breach of corporate governance rules and [...]
They almost tied the knot last year. But now SA’s MTN Group could soon find itself competing head-on with India’s Bharti Airtel in its own backyard.
On Monday, Kuwait’s Zain announced that it had agreed to enter into exclusive negotiations until 25 March, during which time Zain will consider Bharti’s offer, believed to be worth about [...]
Tensions are simmering between Internet service providers and industry regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), following the conversion of telecommunications licences last year.
Over the past two weeks, Icasa has sent letters to network and service licensees demanding to know what they’ve done with their new licences, TechCentral has learnt.
Hundreds of Internet service providers [...]
Newly established state-owned telecommunications infrastructure provider, Broadband Infraco, will build five points of presence in SA’s major centres this year and will begin offering national backhaul connections on its fibre network at speeds ranging from 155Mbit/s to 10Gbit/s.
The company, which received a licence from the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) in October last year [...]
