Helios Towers met with a tepid response for a long-delayed share offering that gives investors a foothold in Africa’s fast-growing wireless tower industry.
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Multiple sources close to Cell C have rubbished a report that China Mobile is about to strike a deal to buy a stake in the troubled South African mobile operator.
South Africa’s third-biggest mobile operator has put core parts of the business up for sale as it struggles with R9-billion of debt and deepening losses.
INX-ZA’s Johannesburg Internet Exchange is getting a major upgrade to its backbone after Dark Fibre Africa donated high-speed fibre between the Isando and Parklands Internet exchange points.
Ethiopia may give up majority control over its telecommunications monopoly in a second phase of privatisation once it’s sold 49% of the company next year.
A report on Tuesday suggested China Mobile may be about to swoop to the rescue of embattled mobile operator Cell C. Telkom is also rumoured to be circling.
MTN South Africa has launched embedded Sim technology for postpaid customers. The eSim technology is available on the Samsung Galaxy Watch (42mm variant), it said on Tuesday.
Telecommunications sector CEOs made a commitment on Tuesday to work with government to roll out fibre in rural communities and connect communities to the Internet grid.
Seacom has “lit up” more towns along the N1 route between Johannesburg and Cape Town with fibre broadband options, the telecommunications company said on Thursday.
Telkom has launched new Sim-only mobile data plans for “on-the-go customers” that dramatically undercut the prices charged by its rivals.