Author: Duncan McLeod

Stewart van Graan will replace Mteto Nyati as CEO of Altron on 1 July, albeit on an interim basis.

New research shows that MTN has South Africa’s fastest mobile network and that the company is running rings around rival Vodacom when it comes to 5G performance.

The Competition Commission has approved US-listed Digital Realty’s acquisition of 55% of South African data centre group Teraco.

EOH Holdings said on Wednesday that it has completed its “targeted” turnaround strategy after reporting a big swing to profit. This as it reported a 20% plunge in revenue.

The devastating floods that hit KwaZulu-Natal on Monday have knocked out more than a thousand mobile towers operated by Vodacom, MTN and Telkom.

E.tv has filed papers with the constitutional court on an urgent basis seeking an appeal of the high court judgment that analogue terrestrial television broadcasts in South Africa be switched off on 30 June.

Just one working day before it was due to take on communications regulator Icasa in a high-stakes, week-long battle in the high court, Telkom has withdrawn its legal action over the recent spectrum auction.

Vodacom will use its newly acquired spectrum assets to build out 4G and 5G infrastructure and grow its presence in the wireless broadband market, CEO Shameel Joosub said.

Seacom has agreed to buy two businesses from JSE-listed EOH Holdings, Network Solutions (EOH-NS) and Hymax, for R144.9-million.

The SABC has apologised to Khumbudzo Ntshavheni over its media statement last month that criticised her plan to switch off analogue terrestrial television broadcasts by 31 March.