Communications regulator Icasa on Tuesday confirmed that Monday’s court judgment in favour of Telkom means the spectrum auction cannot proceed later this month. The agency is now preparing for a legal battle.
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Vodafone Group is looking to raise as much as €2.58-billion from an initial public offering of its European mobile-phone towers unit in Frankfurt, in what will be one of the region’s biggest stock market listings this year.
A day after the high court handed Telkom an interdict, halting Icasa from licensing new broadband spectrum at the end of March, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has raised mediation as a possible solution to the impasse.
Telkom and e.tv have secured an interdict against Icasa, preventing the spectrum auction planned for later this month from taking place until the merits of their case can be heard by the high court.
MTN Group said on Monday that it has appointed former McKinsey & Company executive Chika Ekeji to the newly created role of executive: strategy and transformation.
Mobile World Congress organisers unveiled a health and safety plan on Monday that they said would enable the gathering to go ahead in Barcelona after last year’s event was called off.
The Internet Service Providers’ Association has called for mediation, rather than litigation, to resolve the stand-off between communications regulator Icasa and telecommunications operators over the looming spectrum auction.
Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp on Thursday said it has launched both video and voice calling on its desktop apps for Windows and macOS.
One of the last big hurdles in the way of the rapid commercial deployment of television white spaces Internet access technology in South Africa has fallen.
India led the world last year in Internet shutdowns that affected hundreds of millions of people, as governments cracked down on political rivals and tried to suppress protests.