Communications regulator Icasa faces its biggest-ever test over the coming six months as it gears up to oversee South Africa’s first-ever auction of broadband telecommunications spectrum.
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Telkom’s fixed-line and enterprise business lines have taken a battering due to the Covid-19 lockdown, but its consumer mobile business is flying, the company said in a market update on Friday.
The US ban on Huawei Technologies was supposed to hand leadership of the lucrative market for wireless base stations to Ericsson and Nokia. It’s not working out that way.
Ericsson has agreed to buy Cradlepoint in a $1.1-billion deal, the Swedish telecommunications gear maker said on Friday, as part of plans to expand its 5G-related products for business customers.
Blue Label Telecoms has sold its interest in Blue Label Mexico to its partner in the business, multinational bakery products company Grupo Bimbo, for $11.5-million.
On the face of it, the Covid-19 lockdown was an inadvertent blessing for South Africa’s telecommunications operators.
Telkom shareholders have shot down a special resolution at its AGM that would have allowed the company to issue more shares for cash if it had been approved.
Cell C shareholder Net1 UEPS Technologies has appointed a new director to the board of the mobile operator. David Shimkins will replace Paul Edwards with immediate effect.
Ethiopia has set a new deadline of February 2021 to complete the partial privatisation of the country’s telecommunications industry, with carriers such as Orange, Vodafone Group and MTN Group keen to participate.
Santie Botha and Khanyisile Kweyama are stepping down from the board of Telkom, while Alphonzo Samuels will join the board along with Herman Singh.