Vodacom has concluded the initial public offering of its Tanzanian subsidiary on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange in Tanzania, trading at a 6% premium to the offer price. The South African-headquartered mobile telecommunications
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Lycamobile, one of the world’s largest mobile virtual network operators, has firmed up its plans to launch services in South Africa, piggybacking on Cell C’s network. TechCentral first reported in March that Lycamobile
The GSMA has blasted the wholesale open-access network model favoured by the South African government for the mobile industry, saying network competition has a proven track record in delivering
South Africa is placed 80th worldwide in terms of average broadband speeds, according to new research. The data from 63m broadband speed tests in 189 countries, and extracted by Cable.co.uk, shows that
Netflix rival Iflix, a video streaming service that focuses on emerging markets in Africa and elsewhere, has secured US$133m (about R1.8bn) in new funding in a round led by US media giant Hearst. The company
Vodacom, MTN, Cell C and Telkom have all responded to communications regulator Icasa’s plan to force networks to change the way they expire users’ data, saying they will work with the regulator as it goes
The South African firm that accurately predicted Britain’s exit from the European Union and Donald Trump’s victory in the US by analysing what users were saying on social media now believes that Raila Odinga is
Blue Label Telecoms said on Monday that it has wrapped up its acquisition of 45% of Cell C for R5.5bn, concluding a restructuring deal that has resulted in the mobile operator’s debt being reduced from R23bn to less than R6bn
New research by Tariffic, the company that analyses South African cellular tariffs to help companies and individuals reduce their mobile bills, shows that MTN and Cell C offer the best handset subsidies, while consumers are likely
Seacom, which operates a high-capacity undersea cable along Africa’s east coast, has acquired a Cape Town-based Internet service provider, MacroLan, for an undisclosed sum. The company will be used by