MTN Group is opening an application programming interface marketplace for software developers. Called Chenosis, it’s meant to allow developers and businesses to discover and subscribe to open APIs.
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Seacom will more than double the capacity on its fibre-optic network by the end of August as demand for broadband grows across Africa.
Rob Shuter, the outgoing president and CEO of MTN Group, will join BT Group as CEO of the British company’s Enterprise unit and will become a member of BT’s executive committee.
MTN Group shares fell on the JSE on Friday after Africa’s largest telecommunications operator by subscribers said it was scrapping an interim dividend payment to shareholders.
The Zimbabwean businessman is seeking buyers for 20% to 34% of Liquid Telecommunications Holdings for as much as R10-billion, though Covid-19 is frustrating those efforts, sources say.
The Wireless Access Providers Association warned on Thursday that millions of dollars of planned investment in television white-spaces technology in South Africa is at risk over regulatory delays.
MTN Nigeria’s profit margin, measured using Ebitda, fell by two percentage points to 51.3% in the six months to June 2020, partly due to accounting changes and Covid-19.
The Black IT Forum said it will drag communications regulator Icasa to court if it doesn’t get an immediate move on with commercialising television white-spaces technology.
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Icasa has slammed a report in the consumer media this week that stated it made a mistake when it assigned the “111” service code to government for dealing with Covid-19-related calls from citizens.