Author: Duncan McLeod

IHS Towers has announced it will price its upcoming New York initial public offering at $21/share.

Vantage Data Centers, a large, US-headquartered data centre specialist, has announced it has earmarked R15-billion to build what it claims will be the largest data centre campus in Africa.

Icasa said it will oppose Telkom’s court application that seeks to stop it from withdrawing temporarily assigned spectrum at the end of next month.

Oracle said on Monday that it will build a data centre in Johannesburg, firming up plans first announced two years ago.

Roads agency Sanral reported an almost one-third slump in revenue from e-tolls in Gauteng in the financial year to end-March 2021.

Blue Label Telecoms cautioned shareholders on Monday that it remains in talks about a recapitalisation of mobile operator Cell C, in which it holds a 45% stake.

With an explosion in online sales expected in South Africa in the coming decade, e-commerce is becoming core to the growth strategy of Walmart-owned Massmart.

Telkom’s Openserve has started deploying fibre in city and suburban blocks, rather than across entire areas, in its war on copper cable theft.

Facebook is upping its efforts to connect the next billion people to the Internet – many of whom live in Africa – with new investments in subsea cables, robotics and wireless last-mile technologies.

MTN South Africa is going uncapped – not on fibre, but on its wireless network, launching uncapped fixed-LTE plans starting at R499/month in a challenge to rival Rain.