Telkom announced on Wednesday that it has concluded a new roaming agreement with Vodacom that will allow its customers access to the latter’s 4G/LTE network with no restrictions.
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Telkom mobile users will in future roam on Vodacom’s network, not MTN’s, after the two cellular operators concluded a new, multibillion-rand roaming deal on Wednesday.
MTN Group’s fight with Nigerian authorities over $10-billion in repatriated funds and back taxes could increase risk in South Africa’s financial system depending on the outcome, the Reserve Bank said.
Mobile virtual network operators that piggyback on Cell C’s network will also get to take advantage of the cellular provider’s 4G/LTE roaming agreement with MTN South Africa.
Cell C has appointed Zafar Mahomed as its new chief financial officer. This follows the short tenure of the previous CFO, Tyrone Soondarjee, who resigned in May after less than a year in the role.
The Right2Know Campaign has filed a high court application against MTN, Cell C and Telkom to get the operators to hand over details of when and how often they accede to requests from law enforcement agencies.
The GSMA on Tuesday warned that governments and regulators must move quickly to free up the right radio frequency spectrum bands to ensure the speedy roll-out of 5G services.
JSE-listed Adapt IT said on Monday it will acquire mobile technology specialist Conor Solutions for R80-million.
There’s “clear evidence” that male rats exposed to high levels of radio frequency radiation used in mobile phones developed cancerous heart tumours, according to final reports by the US National Toxicology Program.
We simply don’t have the data in developing countries, and in global statistics, to know what the status quo is or whether the digital divide is being closed.