Telecommunications tower operator Helios Towers has entered the South African market, promising big investments in infrastructure as the country moves to 5G.
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Huawei cut loose a sales director arrested in Poland on suspicion of espionage, moving swiftly to distance itself from a case that may crystallise fears the telecommunications giant helps Beijing spy on Western governments.
Communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has slammed Vodacom on social media, telling it to “just shut up” and “do the right thing” around the “please call me” settlement with its former employee, Nkosana Makate.
The former Vodacom employee who claims to have come up with the idea for the “please call me” service has rejected a settlement tabled by the operator’s CEO, Shameel Joosub, describing the amount offered as “shocking and an insult”.
Vodacom is paying out “reasonable compensation” to a former employee for his idea to develop a popular call-back service after a former CEO first took credit for the product.
MTN Group executives may have expected investors to cut them a little slack after they got potential liabilities of $8.1-billion in Nigeria reduced to $53-million last month. Not so.
Plans to build a superfast submarine broadband cable connecting South Africa and countries in the Middle East, South-Central Asia and Europe, are forging ahead, according to reports.
Eight MTN Group executives netted over 1.3 million shares in the telecommunications giant, valued at R116.9-million at the market price when they were issued at the end of December.
MTN Group CEO Rob Shuter has been granted more than R38-million in shares under the telecommunications operator’s performance share plan. The shares will vest in three years’ time.
Huawei Technologies projected a 21% jump in 2018 revenue, showing off a sharp acceleration in top-line growth despite a difficult year in which it struggled to dispel growing concerns about its business and the security of its products.