Copper-based digital subscriber line (DSL) technology will be dead and buried within the next five years as South Africa’s telecommunications industry ramps up the roll-out of fibre-to-the-home and fibre-to-the-business broadband infrastructure, the CEO of Vox, Jacques

South African fibre-to-the-home pioneer Vumatel is receiving constant interest from bigger telecommunications companies wanting to acquire it, but the company is not yet ready to

The Competition Commission has decided not to prosecute Vodacom and MTN following a complaint by Cell C that its two bigger rivals had acted anticompetitively. The case goes all the way back to October 2013, when Cell C

Neotel has a new chief financial officer and a new chief sales and marketing officer following the acquisition of the company by Liquid Telecom in a R6,5bn deal. The company, which has been rebranded as Neotel Liquid Telecom, has

Holders of registered trademarks have been warned to secure .africa domain names before a “sunrise” phase ends in early June, or risk high legal costs later. “There are innumerable complexities involved in trying to wrest intellectual

An adviser to South Africa’s new finance minister advocated the state takeover of banks, mines and insurance companies in a newspaper editorial, two weeks after President Jacob Zuma’s ouster of Pravin Gordhan shocked investors