In sub-Saharan Africa, there are now more than a million kilometres of terrestrial fibre, most of which is terribly underutilised due to high access costs. The solution may have its origins in Britain’s early postal system.
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Huawei Technologies’ quarterly revenue shrank for the first time on record, reflecting the devastating impact of US sanctions on China’s largest technology company.
China’s Huawei Technologies reported modest annual profit growth for 2020 as overseas revenues declined due to disruption caused by the pandemic and the company’s placement on a US export blacklist.
National treasury has published a new five-year contract for the supply of “transversal” telecommunications services to government entities worth billions of rand to service providers.
Liquid Intelligent Technologies South Africa – the company formerly known as Liquid Telecom South Africa, and before that Neotel – said on Monday that it has completed two new fibre routes between Durban and Cape Town.
Icasa has extended the temporary allocation of emergency spectrum under South Africa’s disaster management regulations by two months. This is after the authority’s spectrum auction was delayed by legal action.
Kenya’s biggest telecommunications operator has started trials for 5G high-speed Internet network using technology from Nokia and Huawei, it said.
Remgro has increased its stake in CIVH, the parent of Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa, following a rights issue used by CIVH to raise capital for expansion and reduce debt.
The communications regulator on Wednesday welcomed the supreme court of appeal’s decision not to grant Telkom leave to appeal in its legal battle with Vodacom over the use of access to its ducts.
MTN is tops among South African customers, while Rain is stone last – and by some distance – according to new research gauging the sentiment of consumers towards local telecommunications operators.