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The Advertising Standards Authority has found in favour of MTN after the operator laid a complaint against Cell C, accusing its smaller rival of discrediting its brand in two advertisements. The authority has instructed Cell C to withdraw the ads. The first target of MTN’s ire was a television advertisement featuring a man
Lazarus Zim has resigned as Telkom’s chairman, the JSE-listed telecommunications group told shareholders on Tuesday. Zim informed Telkom’s board of directors of plans to retire as chairman and director at the end of the company’s annual general meeting scheduled for October. His resignation may be seen
The Public Protector will investigate the possible conflict of interest involving communications minister Dina Pule and the recent ICT Indaba held in Cape Town, Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn said on Monday. Pule said this would “supplement the enquiry we instigated
It’s not all bad news for Telkom. That’s if new forecasts published by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) are correct. PwC expects wired broadband to expand faster than mobile broadband over the next five years, growing at a compound annual rate of 32,8%. “The wired broadband access market is
Communications minister Dina Pule and her boyfriend are accused of using sponsors’ funds to buy her luxury gifts, according to a Sunday newspaper report.. Pule and Phosane Mngqibisa have also been on no fewer than 19 overseas trips together, the Sunday Times alleged
A major US lobby group’s shock advertising campaign, alleging that MTN is “profiting from torture” in Iran, has been blocked by local agencies. But it claims that SA advertising companies have refused to erect the billboards because of the influence of the telecommunications giant. United Against Nuclear Iran
A radical Islamist sect that has attacked mosques, churches, schools and government buildings at will in Nigeria appears to have added a new target for its violence: mobile phone towers. Attacks in the last day have damaged more than 30 towers operated by all the major providers in the country, further
A portion of downtown Johannesburg is being transformed into one of the most wired places in Africa thanks to the initiative of a group of tech-savvy property developers. The Maboneng Precinct is a short walk from banking group Absa’s head office and houses Arts on Main, the Mainchange, Main Street Life
SA will have new banknotes, bearing the face of former president Nelson Mandela, before the end of the year. Although the new notes are the same sizes as their predecessors, they include new security measures, some of which will mean automatic counting
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) has called on Telkom to allow service providers other than TelkomInternet to participate in its trial to test digital subscriber line (DSL) services of 20Mbit/s and 40Mbit/s. The trial started on 3 September and is scheduled to run until 31 January. Telkom is a wholesale
