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Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko “omitted facts” in his open letter at the weekend to his counterparts at MTN and Vodacom and his comments were “a bit rich”. That’s the word from MTN South Africa CEO Zunaid Bulbulia, who told TechCentral on Wednesday

Communications minister Yunus Carrim has lashed out at mobile operators MTN and Vodacom for taking communications regulator Icasa to court over its final regulations governing mobile call termination rates, saying the industry’s inability to reach consensus was holding

South Africa’s telecommunications industry has never been in such a heightened state of flux as it is today. The regulator, Icasa, has managed to enrage the two biggest operators, MTN and Vodacom, which have both now lodged voluminous applications at the high court in an effort to get new call

There is no direct link between mobile termination rates and retail prices. That’s the assertion of MTN South Africa CEO Zunaid Bulbulia, who on Sunday again questioned the move by communications regulator Icasa to cut the rates. In a statement, Bulbulia urges MTN subscribers to “let the facts

Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko has blasted his rivals at Vodacom and MTN, Shameel Joosub and Zunaid Bulbulia, accusing them of “standing in the way of South Africa’s future” by taking communications regulator Icasa to court over mobile termination rates. In an open letter to the Vodacom

MTN contesting communications regulator Icasa’s new reduced interconnect call rates is a high-stakes game that is going to leave no one in the cellphone sector untouched, experts have warned. “This is the first time that MTN and Vodacom have been staring down the barrel of a gun,” said analyst

Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub has defended his company’s decision to join MTN in suing communications regulator Icasa over cuts to mobile termination rates, the fees operators charge each other to carry calls between their networks. Writing in an opinion piece

Cell C has said it is “disappointed” in Vodacom over its decision to file papers against communications regulator Icasa, joining MTN in what may become a groundbreaking court case in South African telecommunications. Cell C chief legal officer Graham Mackinnon tells TechCentral that the

Vodacom has joined MTN in filing papers at the high court in Johannesburg seeking to overturn the implementation of communications regulator Icasa’s cuts to wholesale mobile call termination rates. The move comes a week after MTN filed papers at the high