Communications regulator Icasa should steer clear of developing regulations dealing with network neutrality, the Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) has recommended. The recommendation comes in the ISP body’s submission to Icasa’s high-level
How is this for ambitious? Vodacom in South Africa is hoping to sign up 10m subscribers to its M-Pesa mobile banking and payments platform within the next five years. To put that in context, the cellular operator managed to
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Telkom’s suspended chief financial officer, Jacques Schindehütte, has retired from the group’s board. The telecommunications operator has agreed to pay him his full retirement benefits and to discontinue disciplinary proceedings against him. Telkom made the surprise announcement 30 minutes before markets closed on Friday
Anyone who reads the technology news can’t have failed to notice a certain preoccupation in the past couple of years on the part of developers to bring viewers close to the action of TV, films and computer games through virtual reality. Every other day, it seems, we hear of yet another allegedly ground-breaking solution in the quest for
MTN is “cautiously optimistic” that it has turned the corner in its South African operation after reporting 400 000 net subscriber additions in July. That’s the word from group chief financial officer Brett Goschen, who made the
MTN’s group president and CEO Sifiso Dabengwa and group chief financial officer Brett Goschen sat down with journalists following publication of the mobile operator’s interim 2014 financial results for the six months to end-June. In this edited extract from the press conference, listen as Dabengwa and Goschen
Ask 10 people what they think about Africa’s rising cities and you get 10 different opinions. The only thing they will agree on is that traffic is awful. In truth, 52 cities with more than a million inhabitants are becoming a magnet for innovation, with echoes of the industrial revolution. Take a look at sub-Saharan Africa, the region with the highest number
Government delays in issuing a final policy on high-demand radio frequency spectrum, needed for mobile operators to deploy broadband infastructure, has started affecting the quality of MTN’s network in some
Telecommunications group MTN has lifted its interim dividend by 20,3% to 445c/share after reporting a strong earnings and revenue performance outside its home market of South Africa. Profit margins – measured before interest, tax, depreciation and
