MTN was hoping to gain full management control of Indian operator Bharti Airtel over time, according to a report this…
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Before I even begin this review, I need to confess something. Back in the 1980s, when the Rubik’s Cube was…
Convergence Partners, an investment company controlled by Dimension Data SA chairman Andile Ngcaba, wants to up its equity stake in…
Just a week after its subsidiary, listed telecommunications group Altech, posted a strong set of results, electronics and IT group…
The department of communications is developing a performance management system for councillors at the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa)…
Here’s a point-and-click camera with a difference. Samsung’s ST500 digital camera has not one but two LCD screens, one at…
This week the ZA Tech Show includes an interview with one of the world’s leading podcasters, Leo Laporte (pictured), chief TWiT at TWiT.tv. The team also discusses the collapse in the MTN-Bharti talks, interconnection rates, console prices, and much more
SA’s information and communications technology (ICT) sector will generate nearly 100 000 new jobs in the next four years, according…
A flurry of initiatives aimed at achieving a reduction in mobile termination rates will provide interesting sidesdows, but beneath the politics of the moment, the real action remains an intimate dance between the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) and the mobile networks. The initial mobile termination rate, also known as interconnection rate, of 20c/minute was set between Vodacom and MTN on 8 August 1994. This was amended on 28 May 1999, shortly after it was announced by government that a third mobile cellular telecommunications licence would be issued.
After five months of wrangling, the second attempt by MTN and Bharti executives to form a mobile giant in emerging markets has collapsed, just short of the altar. Bharti says that the SA government kiboshed the deal: “This structure needed an approval from the government of SA, which has expressed its inability to accept it in the current form.”