The US justice department is discussing a deal that would allow the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies to return home to China from Canada in exchange for admitting wrongdoing in a criminal case.
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The UK will ban the installation of 5G equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies by the end of next September.
Icasa’s recent decision to extend the allocation of emergency spectrum under the Covid-19 disaster regulations to operators to the end of March 2021 now has an added proviso: The companies will have to cough up for it.
Ethiopia opened the doors on Friday for telecommunications operators wishing to secure two new licences to submit their technical and financial bids.
Anne O’Leary, the CEO of Vodafone Group’s operations in Ireland, will join the Vodacom Group board as a non-executive director from January 2021.
The Competition Tribunal has given its blessing to investment firm Actis’s acquisition of a controlling stake in Cape Town fibre broadband operator Octotel, and has attached no conditions to this approval.
For the second time in less than two weeks, Vodacom was having major problems with its network in South Africa on Monday. Services were eventually restored on Monday evening.
Ethiopia’s protracted privatisation process faces sticking issues as the government and prospective investors prepare to meet this week, with an escalating armed conflict starting to add to concerns.
Telkom chief financial officer Tsholofelo Molefe has followed CEO Sipho Maseko’s lead in offloading shares in the telecommunications company following publication of its interim results last week.
CIVH, the Remgro-controlled holding company that owns both Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa, is talking to both local and international investors to raise R6-billion in new funding.