EXCLUSIVE | Icasa is poised to announce a plan to auction off radio frequency spectrum suitable for the roll-out of 5G infrastructure in a move that is likely to be widely welcomed by the telecommunications industry.
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MTN Group is in advanced talks to sell stakes in tower assets in Ghana and Uganda worth as much as R8-billion as Africa’s largest wireless carrier looks to accelerate a broader disposal plan.
MTN South Africa lost 300 000 customers in the quarter ended 30 September 2019, but still managed to eke out service revenue growth of 0.4%. It ended the period with 28.9 million subscribers.
Cell C has regularised its payments to MTN South Africa for network roaming and has coughed up almost R750-million between July and September.
Liquid Telecom South Africa said on Thursday that it has built enhancements into its core network that will offer customers “near-unlimited bandwidth capacity”.
Long-serving Telkom executive Alphonzo Samuels will retire at the end of March 2020, the company said on Wednesday.
MTN Group shares fell in Johannesburg on Wednesday after it said subscribers in its key Nigerian unit grew by only 0.1% in the quarter ended 30 September and capital expenditure rose.
Blue Label Telecoms, which bought a 45% stake in Cell C in 2017 for R5.5-billion, has said in its annual report that it is “extremely disappointed” in the performance of the mobile operator.
South Africa is hopelessly ill-prepared for the move from Internet protocol version 4 to version 6, with IPv4 address space set to run out by as early as March 2020, the Internet Service Providers’ Association has warned.
Atlas Tower is selling its South African tower portfolio to shareholder SBA Communications for R2-billion.