Author: Duncan McLeod

Link Africa said on Wednesday that is has acquired additional nationwide fibre-optic network infrastructure from a “leading Internet service provider”. TechCentral has determined the seller is Internet Solutions.

Eskom has implemented stage-6 load shedding as the problems at the failed state-owned utility keep mounting.

Telkom Group CEO Sipho Maseko has slammed the Competition Commission for intervening directly in prices in the data services market, warning using this “blunt and archaic” tool is an “ineffective instrument that may ultimately have unintended and deleterious consequences”.

Vivo, one of China’s biggest smartphone brands, has been launched in South Africa. The company has partnered with Vodacom for the initial launch of devices.

Eskom said on Friday that persistent rain on the Highveld in recent days – which is not predicted to stop until the middle of next week – has contributed to the latest load shedding crisis.

The Competition Commission’s final report on the data services market in South Africa is, frankly, an embarrassment. It amounts to regulatory overreach and dangerous populism that could threaten billions of rand in planned investments in the coming years. By Duncan McLeod.

Dimension Data has sold its iconic office complex in northern Johannesburg, known as The Campus, to a consortium of black women investors, and announced a major employee share scheme.

MTN Group on Wednesday issued a statement to investors in which it criticised the Competition Commission’s final report on the data services market in South Africa, saying it will “vigorously defend against over-broad and intrusive recommendations” by the commission.

After a massive selloff on Monday, shares of South Africa’s biggest listed telecommunications companies continued to trade lower into Tuesday.

Vodacom and MTN must drop mobile data prices significantly, failing which the Competition Commission will consider prosecuting the two companies.