Author: Duncan McLeod

MTN on Monday confirmed speculation that its South African CEO, Ahmad Farroukh, has resigned. He will leave MTN’s employ on 31 July, the operator said in a statement. “This was a difficult decision

Victory Park, Linden, Bryanston South and Blairgowrie will be the latest suburbs in Johannesburg to get fibre-to-the-home broadband, start-up fibre telecommunications operator Vumatel said on

MTN Business, the enterprise services arm of mobile operator MTN, intends pursuing partnerships with IT companies as well as acquisitions as it seeks to grow its contribution to group revenues to

Pay-television operator StarTimes, which owns South Africa’s StarSat, is suing the Ghanaian government for US$200m (about R2,5bn) over alleged wrongful termination of contract. The Chinese company, which competes

Perhaps the biggest surprise to come out of this week’s conditional approval by the Competition Commission of Vodacom’s R7bn acquisition of Neotel is not that the commission has attached stringent conditions to the

As the UK’s telecommunications regulator Ofcom embarks on its next strategic review of the market, incumbent fixed-line operator BT – Britain’s equivalent of Telkom – has called for it to be allowed to close

Communications regulator Icasa intends imposing a 30% black economic empowerment requirement on Neotel as a condition of allowing Vodacom to buy the company. It may also require Neotel to roll out 25% of

In the latest episode of South Africa’s top technology podcast, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about the Competition Commission’s decision to recommend the approval of Vodacom’s acquisition

Long-serving department of telecommunications & postal services deputy director-general Themba Phiri has been fired by his boss, Rosey Sekese, after a disciplinary hearing, which, he says, was conducted in his absence

Mobile operator Cell C, which is vehemently opposed to Vodacom acquiring rival Neotel’s spectrum assets, has welcomed a Competition Commission statement that the proposed transaction could prove to be