Sentech chief operating officer Beverly Ngwenya will act as the state-owned broadcast signal distributor’s head until a permanent CEO is appointed. Communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda has asked Ngwenya, who joined Sentech three years ago from MTN, to run the troubled company following the resignation of Sebiletso Mokone-Matabane. Nyanda has also appointed a new chairman, Quraysh [...]
A remote spot in SA’s Karoo desert has taken a first step towards hosting one of the most powerful scientific instruments in history, to shed light on how the universe began. Driving the dirt road to the Karoo Array Telescope site, the FM radio searches in vain for a frequency it can catch, scanning the [...]
The boss of Indian telecommunications group Bharti Airtel has appointed his top lieutenant to oversee his new African business, bought in a $10,7bn deal from Kuwait’s Zain, a company official said on Wednesday. Sunil Bharti Mittal appointed Manoj Kohli, who is head of Bharti’s international operations and who helped build Bharti into India’s leading mobile [...]
Sentech CEO Sebiletso Mokone-Matabane has resigned before the end of her contract in September, the state-owned signal distributor said on Wednesday. “Today [Wednesday] is her last day,” Sentech spokeswoman Polly Modiko said. Modiko did not know who would take over as acting CEO. Last month a task team report on the company did not explicitly [...]
The arrival, finally, of relatively affordable, uncapped broadband products shows the country is making some progress in telecommunications. However, if we want to be truly competitive as a nation, we need to be thinking much bigger
India’s largest mobile operator, Bharti Airtel, said on Tuesday it had sealed a US$10,7bn deal to buy Zain’s African assets, ranking it among the world’s top five cellular players. With the acquisition, the second-largest foreign takeover in Indian corporate history, Bharti will acquire Kuwait-based Zain’s African mobile services operations in 15 countries, including Kenya, Nigeria [...]
Indian telecommunications tycoon Sunil Bharti Mittal is on the cusp of achieving his dream of building a presence in Africa with a planned US$10,7bn buy-out of assets from Kuwait-based Zain. But analysts say Mittal, a self-confessed business “junkie” always hungering for the next deal, will need all his entrepreneurial chutzpah to turn around Zain’s loss-making [...]
A “land grab” is under way in SA’s cellphone and banking industries as big companies — retailers, banks and telecommunications operators — begin vying for a stake of the fast-emerging market for mobile payments. Significant announcements are being made virtually every week, as SA’s big four banks and the country’s mobile operators make a play [...]
Shares in India’s Bharti Airtel edged higher Tuesday on reports it would sign a US$10,7bn deal to acquire the African telecommunications assets of Kuwait’s Zain. Officials at the New Delhi-based firm declined to comment, citing confidentiality rules, but Kuwait’s Al-Watan daily reported the signing would take place Tuesday at the headquarters of Zain Africa in [...]
For many people, the concept of geographic number portability (GNP) holds little meaning. This is because its benefits to consumers have not been clearly communicated. Also, for people who do have some idea of how GNP works, there is a sense that it benefits businesses rather
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