The second and final stage of the introduction of fixed-line number portability, which will allow individual Telkom customers to switch networks without losing their numbers, has been delayed by about five weeks.
The first phase of fixed-line number portability, also known as geographic number portability (GNP), kicked off in May last year; the second, more important [...]
First came the news that Cell C is planning to sell its national network of base stations to a third-party tower operator. Now MTN SA, looking to cut costs, may begin selling space on its towers to competitors. Why, suddenly, is infrastructure sharing all the rage?
MTN’s recent reduction in peak-time prepaid call rates was a direct consequence of political pressure. And further price cuts are coming this year.
That’s the word from Karel Pienaar (pictured), MD of the mobile group’s SA operation, who says MTN is a “corporate citizen first and foremost and we have to listen to our government”.
MTN slashed [...]
MTN SA is at an advanced stage of planning that will result in it opening its network of base stations to rival operators in an effort aimed, in part, at reducing the company’s operating costs.
“In three or four years from now, I want two or three other operators on my infrastructure,” says MTN SA MD [...]
SA consumers, used to high prices for telecommunications, must be rubbing their hands in glee. The cost of broadband and voice telephony has begun falling, in some cases dramatically, as competition finally begins to take effect
Within days of mobile interconnection rates being cut, SA’s two biggest cellphone operators, MTN and Vodacom, have slashed their peak-time prepaid voice tariffs.
The two companies have cut prepaid rates between 6am and 8pm on weekdays by as much as 40%.
Interconnection rates are the fees the mobile operators charge each other and other operators to carry [...]
We’re in our new studio space this week, echoes, unpainted walls and all. Brett Haggard, Don Packett, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle are your panel this week. We discuss Cell C, in-flight Wi-Fi and much more
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 [...]
Cell C is in advanced talks to sell its national network of base stations in a move aimed partly at reducing its crippling long-term debt.
According to a well-placed source, two companies, American Tower Corp (ATC) and Eaton Telecom, have been selected as the leading bidders to buy the mobile operator’s national tower infrastructure.
The idea is [...]
