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MTN is one of 15 operators still in the running for a potentially lucrative mobile telecommunications licence in Myanmar, various news wires reported on Thursday. The shortlist has been whittled down from 90 companies that had expressed an interest in mobile licences that will soon be up for grabs
Government delays in improving broadband Internet access are having a negative impact on the country’s economy, according to rankings by the World Economic Forum (WEF) published in a report on Thursday. In 2013, South Africa occupied 70th
The Democratic Alliance on Wednesday asked the South African Police Service to investigate communications minister Dina Pule, her alleged boyfriend Phosane Mngqibisa, SABC chief financial officer Gugu Duda and SABC CEO Lulama Makhobo over allegations of corruption. “The
Absa has finally taken the wraps off its application for smartphones and tablets, becoming the last of South Africa’s big four banks to launch a transactional banking app. Absa’s banking application supports Apple’s iPhone and iPad as well as devices running the Android operating system. It allows users to make payments
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has given the go-ahead to Sentech, the state-owned company responsible for building the country’s digital television broadcasting network, to run a pilot this year of a new technology “profile”, called DVB-T2-Lite, for delivering TV broadcasts
In a move that is likely to be widely welcomed in the telecommunications industry, state-owned broadcasting signal distributor Sentech has decided to return its full allocation of radio frequency spectrum in the 2,6GHz and 3,5GHz bands, says CEO Setumo Mohapi. The 2,6GHz band, in particular
Sentech made no request to the department of communications to manage the control system for digital terrestrial television and is fine with a court decision that the system be managed by free-to-air broadcasters instead. In May 2012, communications minister Dina Pule instructed Sentech to
iBurst parent Wireless Business Solutions (WBS) can afford to pay the money the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) claims it owes in unpaid spectrum licence fees. That’s the word from WBS CEO Thami Mtshali, who said the company is not under any sort
Cell C has again chopped mobile data prices, this time on a three-month promotional basis, cutting the cost of 500MB of monthly data to R39/month for contract customers. The move, the operator says, is meant to send a “clear message” to its customers and its competitors. “Cell C has always provided customers
First National Bank launched a cellphone-based instant money transfer service between South Africa and Zimbabwe on Tuesday. “We have done extensive research into the cross-border remittance market and devised a service that is readily accessible to the people who need it most,” said Yolande van Wyk, head of digital
