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SA’s mobile operators should be glad they don’t have the UK’s telecommunications regulator Ofcom breathing down their necks. Ofcom has slashed wholesale mobile termination rates by 80% over four years

Despite growing demand for digital media in SA, there is still strong interest in traditional media in rural areas, where the high cost of data ensures that radio and community newspapers remain dominant

JSE-listed Reunert has acquired privately held ECN Telecoms in a deal that could presage further consolidation in the telecommunications sector. The value of the transaction has not been disclosed and is

A year after MWeb released SA’s first consumer uncapped products, the company’s network is carrying 2,5 petabytes of data a month. This is nine times higher than the 282TB it handled monthly before the product was unveiled

The public are advised not to be alarmed at steam issuing from the Koeberg nuclear power station during the next few days, a spokesman said. “Given the events in Japan, we want to assure the public that perfectly clean steam

MWeb CEO Rudi Jansen says the Naspers-owned Internet service provider is expecting Telkom to begin offering uncapped broadband soon over its fixed-line network. But he says he’d welcome

Outgoing MTN Group CEO Phuthuma Nhleko has scotched persistent rumours that the telecommunications operator plans to relocate its head office to the Middle East, saying its domicile

MTN has appointed Ahmed Faroukh as vice president of its West and Central African Africa region, promoting him from his position as CEO of MTN Nigeria

Microsoft and the department of trade and industry are on the verge of making an announcement about the software company’s long-awaited black economic empowerment deal

Outgoing MTN Group CEO Phuthuma Nhleko is looking forward to what he calls a “much slower pace” when he steps down at the end of this month. But Nhleko, who has led MTN for the past nine years