Author: Staff Reporter

In a last-minute decision, communications regulator Icasa has given telecommunications operators more time to implement its new consumer protection rules related to data services.

The communications regulator has expressed “concern” that the listing of MultiChoice Group went ahead on Wednesday “even though there is a complaint before its complaints and compliance committee”.

King Goodwill Zwelithini is backing the launch of a new mobile virtual network operator in South Africa, which is expected to begin offering services by mid-2019.

Protest action hit the Cell C head office campus in Woodmead, Johannesburg on Tuesday as unionised workers picketed over bonuses.

MTN South Africa will appear before communications regulator’s complaints and compliance committee next month over a charge that it failed to comply with a notification rule regarding tariff adjustments.

Long-serving Telkom chairman Jabu Mabuza is stepping down from the JSE-listed telecommunications board at the end of May, more than seven years after he assumed the role.

Mobile data traffic in South Africa will grow nine-fold between 2017 and 2022 to reach 1.2 exabytes per month at the end of the forecast period, according to Cisco.

South African-born global cryptocurrency start-up Coindirect has raised €1-million (about R16-million) in an investment round led by Concentric, with participation from Blockchain.com and MakerDAO.

One of the world’s biggest website hosting providers, GoDaddy, will launch in South Africa next month.

EOH Holdings on Friday published an open letter to its stakeholders after its shares were pummelled this week following the news that Microsoft had terminated two partner agreements with its subsidiary, EOH Mthombo. Read the full letter here.