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Another senior SA telecommunications executive, recruited recently to Nigeria’s Glo Mobile, has resigned. Richard Morse, who was appointed three months ago to head up strategy and innovation at Glo, says he left as a result of the way the company is being managed. Glo is Nigeria’s second biggest

Computer maker Lenovo has its sights set on Africa, and it’s not just the PC market in which it wants to compete more aggressively. The company is set to release a dual-Sim, low-cost smartphone in SA before the end of the year, a move that could annoy operators while delighting consumers

Nashua Mobile has extended its flat-rate “Xtreme Data” service to more Nokia devices, including Windows Phone Lumia devices, the company said on Monday. It first launched the flat-rate plans on the Nokia C3, X2-01, E5, E7 and N8, later making them available on the Asha 300, 303 and 201. Billed as an

Despite requesting it, Telkom has still not formally received a copy of the written interim order by the Independent Communications Authority of SA’s (Icasa’s) complaints and compliance committee that caused a storm of controversy this week. On Wednesday, Telkom issued a media

It’s “just not true” that MTN’s tariff plans are too complex and its consumers “totally understand the value proposition”, says MTN SA MD Karel Pienaar. Pienaar was reacting to criticism that the company’s tariffs are too complicated for consumers to understand, especially in light of Cell C’s recent introduction of a uniform

Telkom’s R449m fine handed down this week for anticompetitive practices could be only the start of its problems. Senior competition lawyers are expecting a string of damages claims from its competitors. The Competition Tribunal found Telkom guilty of anticompetitive practices, which opens

Much like Microsoft with its forthcoming Surface tablet computers for Windows 8 and Windows RT, Google has decided that if you want something done right you’re probably better off doing it yourself. The company announced earlier this year it was entering the tablet fray with

MTN SA is considering selling as much as half of its base station infrastructure in SA to improve the efficiency of its capital structure, says MD Karel Pienaar. “We have been looking at this for a long time,” according to Pienaar, who says the company is weighing the economic pros and cons of selling the towers

The eNews Channel, the 24-hour television news service available on MultiChoice’s DStv platform, will launch on the Sky digital satellite platform in the UK in coming weeks. The service will target the sizeable expatriate community. A launch date has not yet been confirmed. Sky has more than 10m subscribers in the UK

Telkom is “gravely concerned” about the alleged leak of information from the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) of a supposedly confidential findings-and-recommendations document by the authority’s complaints and compliance committee to an industry body. In a strongly worded media statement