Eskom’s rolling blackouts are placing severe strain on mobile network operators trying to keep base stations up and running.
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Isabel dos Santos was set to be ousted from the helm of Angola’s biggest telecommunications company as shareholders met on Tuesday to discuss corporate governance in the wake of legal action by one of its biggest investors.
Cell C has partnered with Facebook to roll out public-access Wi-Fi hotspots in South Africa, and has taken the first few live at the University of the Western Cape.
Fibre infrastructure provider Metrofibre Networx has received an equity investment from Stoa Infra & Energy. Stoa has acquired 23.1% of the South African open-access fibre network operator.
Telkom is failing to implement number porting for telephone numbers used by call centres to the detriment of competition, the Internet Service Providers’ Association said on Monday.
Huawei has withstood criminal charges and international scrutiny to post rising growth in the first two months of the year.
African Rainbow Capital has attached an intrinsic value to telecommunications upstart Rain of R11.7-billion, or almost a third of Telkom’s market capitalisation.
Huge Group is acquiring Otel in a share-swap deal involving its subsidiary, Huge Networks, the JSE-listed telecommunications specialist said in a statement to shareholders after markets closed on Thursday.
MTN Group plans to push ahead with an initial public offering of its Nigeria unit in April or May once Africa’s biggest wireless carrier resolves a $2-billion tax dispute in the country.
Top US universities are shunning research money from Huawei amid pressure from congress and the Trump administration to limit dealings with the Chinese company over national security concerns.