Cell C employees began moving into the company’s sprawling new campus, built at the confluence of the N1 and N3 freeways in Woodmead, near Midrand, at the end of last year. The 50 000sq m facility includes a main head office facility, a customer service centre, a new national network
MTN has taken issue with the final call termination regulations announced by telecommunications regulator Icasa on Wednesday, saying the proposed “asymmetry” that benefits smaller operators is “unsubstantiated”. Under the regulations, smaller operators
Communications minister Yunus Carrim says mobile operators should accept the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s (Icasa’s) move to chop wholesale inter-network call rates and the introduction of a regime that favours smaller operators. Icasa on Wednesday
Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig is set to make a full recovery and is “progressing well” after suffering a stroke in mid-November. That’s according to the mobile operator’s acting CEO, Jose Dos Santos, who says Knott-Craig is walking again after the health scare
Cell C, the big winner in Tuesday’s publication by telecommunications regulator Icasa of wholesale inter-network call rates for the coming four years, has lauded the authority’s decision to introduce aggressive “asymmetry” that favours it and other smaller
Stellenbosch-based mobile messaging platform and social network Mxit is taking aim at the vast Indian market, launching the service in the south Asian powerhouse this week in the hope of dramatically expanding its reach. The South African team
South Africa will get its first multi-genre electronic “mashed-up” festival this year. The event will include music, art and technology, hosted by Hilltop Live. The festival, called XooXity, has been inspired by South African
Though he’s mostly been out of the headlines in recent years, Primedia founder William Kirsh didn’t disappear into early retirement when he resigned in September 2009 as CEO of the media empire he led and helped build. Rather, he’s been hard at work creating a new business – with his father
The way South Africa’s telecommunications and broadcasting regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa, is structured and funded could be overhauled as part of a review of the country’s information and communications
South Africa’s communications minister, Yunus Carrim, likes to joke that his favourite book is Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, a joke which is aimed at those worried about his communist background. But, in reality, the former journalist and academic’s reading tastes are far more
