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Spare a thought for Shameel Joosub and Zunaid Bulbulia. The Vodacom and MTN chief executives must feel like they’re being unfairly picked on for running successful, profitable businesses. This week, telecommunications industry regulator Icasa published final regulations that will
National treasury is moving ahead with plans to levy value-added tax on digital goods such as music downloads and digital books, with the controversial new rules set to come into effect on 1 April. Government this week published electronic services regulations for public comment. This follows
Cell C employees began moving into the company’s sprawling new campus, built at the confluence of the N1 and N3 freeways in Woodmead, near Midrand, at the end of last year. The 50 000sq m facility includes a main head office facility, a customer service centre, a new national network
Times Media Group has acquired a controlling 60% stake in a KwaZulu-Natal based radio station called Vuma FM. The acquisition comes just a month after it snapped up 65% of Mpumalanga station Mpower FM. The deal is worth R25,6m and Times Media has agreed to provide additional working capital to Vuma
JSE-listed telecommunications operator MTN has named Michael Fleisher to the position of group chief legal counsel, effective 1 February. Described by the group as a “seasoned legal professional”, Fleisher’s appointment is likely to raise a few eyebrows. As Finweek points
T-Systems, a unit of German telecommunications operator Deutsche Telekom, has acquired 100% of South African enterprise information management business Intervate, which employs over 100 people in Gauteng and the Western Cape. The parties
MTN has taken issue with the final call termination regulations announced by telecommunications regulator Icasa on Wednesday, saying the proposed “asymmetry” that benefits smaller operators is “unsubstantiated”. Under the regulations, smaller operators
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has dealt a blow to telecommunications operators in South Africa that have more than 20% retail market share, introducing aggressive asymmetry that favours smaller operators
Communications minister Yunus Carrim says mobile operators should accept the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s (Icasa’s) move to chop wholesale inter-network call rates and the introduction of a regime that favours smaller operators. Icasa on Wednesday
Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig is set to make a full recovery and is “progressing well” after suffering a stroke in mid-November. That’s according to the mobile operator’s acting CEO, Jose Dos Santos, who says Knott-Craig is walking again after the health scare
