Full-year losses at Neotel widen to R1,8bn
Neotel reported a total comprehensive loss of R1,8bn in the financial year to end March 2011, the latest annual report from parent Tata Communications has revealed. In 2010, the company turned in a loss of R1,15bn. However, the company’s directors have expressed confidence
Furman, Scholten to chair ISP body
Marc Furman of Internet Solutions and Jaap Scholten of eNetworks have been appointed as co-chairs of the Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa), an industry body. Mike Silber of Liquid Telecom has been named as treasurer. Other members of the management committee
Local-loop unbundling hearings to kick off
The long-awaited hearings on local-loop unbundling, the process whereby competitors will be given access in some shape or form to Telkom’s “last mile” of copper-cable infrastructure, kick off on Tuesday at the Independent Communications Authority of SA’s offices
Neotel wins Wacs cable deal
Neotel has won a contract to run the primary network operating centre, or NOC, for the West Africa Cable System (Wacs), the new, high-capacity submarine system running between Cape Town and London. Wacs is due to be ready for commercial service early next
Gigaba raises ‘grave concern’ over Infraco
State-owned telecommunications company Broadband Infraco has turned in an operating loss of R207m in its 2011 financial year and received a qualified audit opinion from its external auditors, which public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba has described as “of grave
Operators face showdown at the consumer corral
The National Consumer Commission, established in April to enforce the new Consumer Protection Act, has received objections from all of SA’s big operators, with the exception of Neotel, to the compliance notices it served on them demanding
Consumer watchdog takes on cellphone firms
National consumer commissioner Mamodupi Mohlala has served telecommunications operators with compliance notices after they refused to amend their customer contracts to explain their call rates. Signing the notice would legally bind the operators and
Neotel eyes retail growth with new products
Neotel has grown its retail customer base to 70 000 subscribers and hopes to accelerate that growth with the introduction this week of new bundled voice and data products. Originally licensed as the first rival to Telkom, Neotel has
BT coy over big SA network plans
BT Group is playing coy over its plans to invest significant capital in fibre-optic network infrastructure in SA, but TechCentral understands an announcement about its plans is imminent. Company executives skirted the issue at a press
MTN itching to build national LTE network
MTN wants to share spectrum in the so-called “digital dividend” band with television broadcasters so it can begin rolling out a wireless broadband network across the country using next-generation long-term evolution (LTE) technology. “I would deploy LTE across
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