Jose Dos Santos will step down as CEO of Cell C at the end of February, the mobile operator’s largest shareholder, JSE-listed Blue Label Telecoms, said in a statement on Friday.
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Foldable phones, 5G and better smartphone cameras are expected to be the main talking points when the Mobile World Congress technology trade show begins in Barcelona next week.
Huawei would deny any Chinese government request to open up “back doors” in foreign telecommunications networks because it isn’t legally obliged to do so, the company’s chairman says.
MTN South Africa will appear before communications regulator’s complaints and compliance committee next month over a charge that it failed to comply with a notification rule regarding tariff adjustments.
US President Donald Trump has called for mobile networks to ramp up their efforts to deliver faster speeds, demanding that 5G and even 6G be introduced as soon as possible.
Long-serving Telkom chairman Jabu Mabuza is stepping down from the JSE-listed telecommunications board at the end of May, more than seven years after he assumed the role.
Finance minister Tito Mboweni will “work relentlessly” with communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams to ensure additional radio frequency spectrum is allocated as soon as possible.
A group representing top US mobile service providers disagreed with European and Asian counterparts over alleged security threats from Chinese equipment maker Huawei ahead of a conference that will highlight a US-Europe divide on the issue.
Huawei Technologies’ founder Ren Zhengfei said “there’s no way the US can crush us”, according to an interview he gave to the BBC.
South African police arrested a former ambassador to Iran on corruption charges related to the award of a mobile phone licence to MTN Group after it was initially given to Turkcell.