Vodacom and MTN were by far the biggest spenders in South Africa’s spectrum auction, agreeing to cough up more than R5-billion each for prime access.
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Rain is participating actively in communications regulator Icasa’s auction of broadband spectrum and expects its business to be a big beneficiary of the process.
Icasa has wrapped up the long-awaited spectrum auction. This is the full, unedited statement issued by the regulator following the conclusion of the process on Thursday.
Apple’s iPhones led the mobile industry to a milestone in January, when handsets with 5G accounted for more than half of smartphone sales for the first time.
Blue Label Telecoms has unveiled long-awaited details of a planned recapitalisation of Cell C – a move aimed at dealing once and for all with the mobile operator’s crippling debt problem.
The auction of mobile broadband spectrum will continue into next week after already raising more than the R8-billion expected.
The cabinet has decided to scrap government plans to license a wholesale open-access network in South Africa.
The Competition Commission has okayed the acquisition by New York-listed IHS Towers of thousands of towers owned by MTN South Africa, but has attached stringent conditions to the deal.
In a blow to shareholders who had been hoping for an imminent “value unlock”, Telkom has elected to postpone the separate listing of Swiftnet.
MTN South Africa has reported strong earnings growth, with all business units performing well in the year to 31 December 2021.